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[3] 12% goes to the UK government as lottery duty, 4% to retailers as commission, and a total of 5% to the operator, [1] with 4% to cover operating costs and 1% as profit. [4] Since 22 April 2021, players must be 18 years of age to purchase lottery tickets and scratchcards (online and in-store). [5] Previously, the minimum age was 16. [6]
A jackpot of €190 million (£170.2 million) was won by a single ticket holder in the UK bearing the winning numbers - 7,10,15,44,49 and the lucky numbers 3,12. The highest jackpot ever won in the UK, and second highest jackpot to date, was £195,707,000 (€230,300,000), on 19 July 2022.
£35.1 million (US$49.6 million) was the largest winner on the UK Lotto game in April 2016. €38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij (State Lottery) in May 2013. €30,009,676 (US$31 million) was the largest jackpot in France's SuperLoto, won in May 2006 by two tickets.
Since April 2018, a new show called The National Lottery Lotto Results has aired on ITV on Wednesday and Saturday nights during commercial breaks. Presented by Stephen Mulhern, the show features that night's winning Lotto numbers, and spotlights a National Lottery-funded location. The actual Lotto draw itself is not broadcast, and remains online.
The first French lottery was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.
The Channel Islands Lottery was founded in 1975 with the merger of the Jersey Lottery and the Guernsey Lottery. [2] The Jersey Lottery was established in 1966 [3] and the Guernsey Lottery in 1971. The game is the oldest lottery in the British Isles, established before those in Ireland (1987) and the United Kingdom (1994).
A UK ticket-holder scooped the record EuroMillions jackpot of £195 million on July 19 2022 – the biggest National Lottery win of all time. – Joe and Jess Thwaite, £184,262,899.10
The Health Lottery also re-organised its playing structure to ensure a minimum jackpot of £25,000, and shorten the odds of winning any prize (now 1 in 9.7). [6] In addition, the monthly Mega Raffle was introduced, in which one Health Lottery player wins a guaranteed cash prize of £250,000. [7] The first Mega Raffle was drawn on 1 September 2018.