The UK Lottery draws massive amounts of attention from people all over the United Kingdom, it rakes in vast amounts of cash each week from its lottery draws and scratch card games. At a guess I would say on average the Lottery makes £150 million a week from these gambling type draws and games, easily done especially when the Lottery Odds are against us.
If you are going to spend your cash regularly in the UK Lotto games it is a good idea to know the approximate lottery odds for winning cash prizes. “I say approximate for good reasons” “The Lottery Is Random”
Lottery Odds
The lottery odds for winning the UK Jackpot Prize are said to be about 1 in 16.4 million to win it, I would think these odds fluctuate and get much higher than that, I would also bet the odds are still against someone buying 16.5 million tickets with separate sequences and winning the main jackpot prize.
Obviously the lowest prize “Matching 3 Numbers” is going to have the best lottery odds to win it which works out at about 1 in 55 odds to win the £10 prize.
Matching 4 numbers in the UK Lottery gives 22% of the remaining prize fund, the odds to win this are around 1 in 1100, many thousands of players win this 4 number prize weekly a quick example would be from a draw on the 25th of May 2011. The prize for matching 4 numbers in this draw was £71 and 14,030 tickets/lines winning that prize. These amounts of winners and prizes matching 4 numbers and above can and do fluctuate weekly.
The Lottery odds for matching 5 numbers are said to be around 1 in 56,000, the winning cash prize amount fluctuates depending on the size of the jackpot as does the amount of people winning the cash prize matching 5 numbers. The prize for matching 5 numbers on the 25th of May 2011 was £1,895 from a total fund of £458,590 242 winning tickets/line, where as on the 11th of May the prize was £3,260 from a fund of £521,600 with 160 winning tickets/lines. “All Dependant on the Size of The Jackpot”
More people that play, the bigger the jackpot, and lower prize amounts will be and the likelihood of many more winners landing prizes.
The Lottery Odds of matching 5 plus the bonus ball are around 1 in 2 and half million, the prize you can win matching 5 numbers and the bonus ball fluctuates but can be something like 3 people winning £244,589 each from a £733,767, “Taken From 25th of May 2011 Prize Table” or 2 winners with £417,384 from a £834,768 prize fund for this winning tier. “Taken From Wed 11th May 2011 Prize Table” “It could be 1 winner or 10 winners” whatever the total is for this prize fund will be shared equally between all tickets matching 5 numbers and the bonus ball.
Best Lottery Odds
If you are shopping to compare the best lottery odds you should be careful about paying for any kind of lottery tips service, the is no system in the world that can predict better lottery numbers. “that is unless random stops being random”
There are a couple of ways for getting the best lottery odds!
1. Buy more tickets which can get quite costly as the odds are still stacked against ticket buyers.
2. Join a Lottery Syndicate, this will provide the best lottery odds for the best cost as a syndicate pools the spending power of the members to buy more entries.
The LoveMyLotto Syndicate provide the best lotto odds with more chances for less cost via a 21 player team with a complete package of games.
Big Fat Lottos have a wide selection of European Lotteries in their syndicate suit of games, members will get the best lottery odds with them by means of a 49 player syndicate team who all share 44 entries into each UK Lotto draw “Wednesday and Saturday”.
