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The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery established in 1994 in the United Kingdom. It is regulated by the Gambling Commission, and is operated by Allwyn Entertainment, who took over from Camelot Group (who had been running the National Lottery since its inception) on 1 February 2024.
The National Lottery 10th Birthday Celebration, which aired on 6 November 2004 was the only National Lottery gameshow to feature celebrity contestants who played for money to their chosen charities.
The Camelot Group companies, of which Camelot UK Lotteries Limited is the UK National Lottery operating subsidiary, are owned by the holding company Premier Lotteries Investments UK Limited. The group's ultimate parent was the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, a Canadian investment fund until 2023 when Allwyn AG purchased Camelot. [3] [4]
Jackpot: $2.5 million. That’s roughly how much, in today’s dollars, the winner of England’s first-recorded state lottery won on Jan. 11, 1569.
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A lottery is a form of gambling which involves selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing their own national (state) lottery.
A number of countries conduct games designated national lottery (in the singular), or national lotteries (in the plural), see Countries with a national lottery; National lottery may also refer to: The National Lottery Awards, Annual awards issued to National Lottery Good Causes projects in the United Kingdom; The National Lottery Draws, a ...
The Health Lottery received criticism on launch for only pledging to donate 20.3% of ticket costs to charity, compared to the National Lottery's 28%, and that the lottery's structure was designed to contravene British law regarding lotteries.