With a record jackpot of £42 million GBP, the UK National Lotto is one of the richest, lump-sum, tax-free lotteries in the world. Played twice a week and televised live on the BBC, each draw offers players the chance to win a jackpot running to millions of pounds!
To win the jackpot, players must match their selected 6 numbers with the 6 main numbers drawn from a pool of 49, numbers 1–49. Besides the jackpot, there are other prizes to be won if players match 3, 4 or 5 numbers or 5 numbers plus the “bonus ball” (drawn separately after the 6 main numbers).
Syndicates allow people to pool their lottery entries, giving them a greater chance of sharing money from a lottery. Camelot, operators of the UK National Lottery, say 1 in 4 jackpots are won by syndicates! e-lottery now allows you to play in a syndicate with a difference.
When playing the UK Lotto with e-lottery, you will be automatically placed into a syndicate of 49 members for both draws (Wednesday and Saturday) each week.
Each syndicate has 44 entries/lines into each UK Lotto draw, with each line sharing 5 common numbers plus one unique number between 1 and 49 (these unique numbers are the 44 remaining numbers after your syndicate has been given their 5 common numbers).
Why are the 44 entries in your syndicate set up in that way?
That’s easy:
To improve the syndicate’s odds of winning a UK Lotto jackpot by 733%!
For example, let’s suppose the 5 numbers common to your e-lottery syndicate are:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
If we combine those five numbers with every remaining number between 1 and 49 (in this example, that would be 6–49), your syndicate is GUARANTEED to match every number drawn in every draw, on one line or another.
By guaranteeing that all of the available numbers are covered on one line or another, your syndicate is GUARANTEED to have one line that is looking for just 5 more numbers – AND NOT ALL 6.
So, the chances of winning the jackpot with that line have gone from 1 in 14 million right down to 1 in only 1.9 million…
