Tonight’s Lotto jackpot stands at £5m – a truly life-changing amount of money if your numbers come up.
To win the jackpot, a player must match all six main numbers, with odds of about one in 45,057,474. Tonight’s winning Lotto numbers are 7, 10, 20, 55, 57, 59 and the bonus ball is 44.
Tonight will also see the National Lottery‘s Thunderball draw, which offers a top prize of £500,000 for a £1 entry ticket.
To win the Thunderball top prize of £500,000, you have to match all five numbers plus the Thunderball. The odds of winning the top prize in the Thunderball are around one in 8,060,598 – nearly six times better than the Lotto jackpot.
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The Thunderball draw will take place in 10 minutes.
Players must match all five numbers plus the Thunderball to bag the £500,000 top prize.
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Tonight’s winning Lotto numbers are 7, 10, 20, 55, 57, 59 and the bonus ball is 44
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Tonight’s numbers are about to be revealed – we will bring you the results right here as they are announced.
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A widow says that landing the £1million Lotto jackpot using her late husband’s lucky numbers “feels like he’s still looking out for us” a year on from his death
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Tonight’s Lotto draw will take place in around 15 minutes.
We will bring you the results right here as soon as they are announced.
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The National Lottery announced it is are going to start holding two rounds of draws for the Wednesday and Saturday Lotto games.
This means players pick their numbers as usual but now there are two chances of winning for every line of numbers you play, at no extra cost.
You can find out more about the changes here.
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We asked Mirror readers if they would tell their huge news to the world if their numbers came up. It’s fair to say not too many of you are keen! Over three quarters – 76 per cent – responded ‘no way’ on our poll. In fact, just 4 per cent picked ‘absolutely… I’m rich!’.
Around 20 per cent said they would only tell close friends and family members if they won big, and who could blame them?
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Gary MacDonald, 61, quit his job after he won a staggering £5.2m on the lottery last year – and this year he has returned to his former place of work in Essex to surprise them with presents.
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No one matched all six numbers to win Saturday’s £3.8m Lotto jackpot with the money rolling over to this week.
There were also no winners of the £1m second-tier prize. However, 80 players won £1,750 each after matching five of the six numbers without the bonus ball. A further 4,896 players matched four numbers, winning £140 each.
Thousands of other players picked up smaller prizes.
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A new poll of 2,000 UK adults has found that Brits value everyday luck above fame, popularity and even love, with 57% saying it is hugely important to their daily lives.
Two thirds of people consider luck to be extremely important to them(Image: © SWNS)
National Lottery draws take place on the following days each week:
- Lotto: Wednesday and Saturday
- EuroMillions: Tuesday and Friday
- Set For Life: Monday and Thursday
- Thunderball: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
- Lotto HotPicks: Wednesday and Saturday
- EuroMillions HotPicks: Tuesday and Friday
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The Lotto draw, which has an estimated jackpot of £5 million, will take place at 8pm tonight. To win the jackpot, a player must match all six main numbers. The odds of winning the Lotto jackpot are about one in 45,057,474.
Meanwhile, the Thunderball draw, which has a top prize of £500,000, will take place at 8.15pm. The odds of winning the Thunderball top prize are about one in 8,060,598. Other smaller prizes, ranging from £3 to £5,000, are also up for grabs. Players have a one in 13 chance of winning any prize in each Thunderball draw.