UK lotto prediction for today

The UK National Lottery was launched in November 1994 to give players the chance to win life-changing prizes. Since then its flagship Lotto game has undergone a number of changes, including the addition of a Wednesday draw in February 1997 and the introduction of the Lotto Raffle in October 2013. A new prize structure was introduced in November 2018, bumping the second prize up to £1 million and limiting the number of jackpot rollovers to five consecutive draws. The Lotto Millionaire Raffle was discontinued as part of these changes.

On Saturday 9th January 2016, two winning ticket holders shattered a 20-year-old record as they split a Lotto jackpot of £66 million, with each player receiving £33 million. Another gigantic prize was given away the following month when a single player landed £32.5 million on Saturday 13th February 2016.

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To play Lotto, choose six numbers between 1 and 59. You can buy a ticket at any licensed retailer in the UK or you can play online, and you can choose your own numbers or opt for a Lucky Dip to receive six randomly selected numbers. The objective is to match your chosen numbers with those drawn in the lottery, and the more you match the bigger your prize.

You can win prizes for matching as few as two numbers, while the jackpot is won by matching all six. The starting jackpot varies depending on which draw day it falls on. It starts at £2 million on a Wednesday and £3.8 million on a Saturday. If two or more players match all six main numbers to win the jackpot, then the top prize is shared equally between the winners, but if there are no jackpot winners then the prize money rolls over and increases for the next draw.

Lotto has six prize tiers in all. The table below shows the prize amounts you can win, the numbers you must match for each of them, and the odds of winning:

Overall odds of winning a Lotto prize are 1 in 9.3.