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Odds of winning 3 numbers: £2.50: 56.65592 to 1 4 numbers: £25: 1,032.397 to 1 5 numbers: £250: 55,491.33 to 1 5 numbers and bonus ball: £25,000: 2,330,636 to 1 6 numbers: £250,000: 13,983,815 to 1 The overall odds of winning any prize is 52.65514 to 1 per draw. The overall odds of winning any prize is 10.13855 to 1 per Plus 5 draw week.
This is a non-exhaustive list of traditional and popular bets offered by bookmakers in the United Kingdom.The 'multiple-selection' bets in particular are most often associated with horse racing selections but since the advent of fixed-odds betting on football matches some punters use these traditional combination bets for football selections as well.
For a score of n (for example, if 3 choices match three of the 6 balls drawn, then n = 3), () describes the odds of selecting n winning numbers from the 6 winning numbers. This means that there are 6 - n losing numbers, which are chosen from the 43 losing numbers in ( 43 6 − n ) {\displaystyle {43 \choose 6-n}} ways.
On 24 September 2016, the cost per line increased from £2.00 to £2.50 in the UK. On the same day, in Ireland and Spain it rose to €2.50 per line. From 24 September 2016, the number of lucky stars changed from a pool of 11 to a pool of 12 numbers, decreasing the jackpot-winning odds from 1:117million to 1:140million.
The odds of winning can also be reduced by increasing the group from which numbers are drawn. In the SuperEnalotto of Italy, players must match 6 numbers out of 90. [53] The chance of winning the jackpot is 1 in 622,614,630. [54] Most lotteries give lesser prizes for matching just some of the winning numbers, with a lesser prize for fewer matches.
The majority of special events attracting large audiences are often carried on more than one channel. The most watched special event programme of all time on a single channel in the UK is the 1973 wedding ceremony of Princess Anne, shown only on BBC One. Pre-1981 figures supplied by the British Film Institute (BFI)
Vernons' Pools was founded in 1925, also in Liverpool, and Zetters was founded 1933 in London. In 1934, the Football Pool Promoters' Association was formed: besides Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters, its members were the other large pools companies including Cope's Pools (based in London), W.S. Murphy (Edinburgh) and Western Pools (Newport). [10]
Becky struggles as a young mother and on a night out, she inadvertently hands the week's lottery ticket to Luke Summers, a rugby player for the Bradford Bulls. Helen Dolan, a nurse who left the syndicate four months ago, discovers they have won £72,000,000 on the lottery, and Becky faces a race against time to get the ticket back.