Odds of Winning

The lottery system used in the UK is a 6/49 or 649. This means that there you get a choice of 6 numbers from 1-49. There are 13,983,816 different six-ball combinations, which means that you have just under a 1 in 14 million chance of matching all six numbers and scooping the jackpot.

Number of balls matched	Odds	Average payout per person
6	1 in 14 million	£2,100,000
5 + bonus	1 in 2.3 million	£102,000
5	1 in 55,550	£1,530
4	1 in 1,030	£62
3	1 in 57	£10
2	1 in 7.5	0
1	1 in 2.4	0
0	1 in 2.3	0

The table above shows the odds of matching 0 to 6 numbers, with the average payout per person (taken from Saturday games).

The top 5 lucky lottery locations are:

Newcastle (£38,798,331)
Manchester (£27,562,458)
Chester (£21,278,045)
Birmingham (£18,467,911)
Peterborough (£18,408,483)

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