It's two winning UK Lotto draws in a row after Saturday's £20million jackpot was bagged - tonight is an incredibly lucky one for Brits as not only was the £2million Lotto prize won along with.
The way the UK lottery works is that you have a card with the numbers 1-59 marked on it and you have to choose any six of them. What we need to work out is how many different ways you can choose 6 numbers out of the 59 available.
In maths we say 'how many different combinations of 6 can we choose from a total of 59' and we write it with the numbers next to a big letter 'C' as you can see in the diagram. To work it out you fill the numbers into the formula. (You can find out exactly where this groovy looking formula comes from in Do You Feel Lucky?)
To use the formula you need to know that the '!' sign is called a 'factorial' which means you need to multiply the number by every smaller number down to 1. So for example 5! = 5x4x3x2x1 = 120. (Some calculators have a ! button on them.) If we wrote the top line of this formula out in full we'd get 59x58x57x56.... right down to ...4x3x2x1. The bottom line is 6x5x4x3x2x1 x 53x52x51x50...etc down to ...4x3x2x1.
It all seems awful but DON'T PANIC! The fun part is that monstrous sums like these cancel themselves to bits and you can actually rip though them really quickly. This one produces the answer that there are 45,057,474 combinations in total, and only ONE of them will win you the jackpot. So your chances of winning the jackpot are 1 in 45,057,474.
Now you've understood all this, let's get back to the top
Winning numbers forLotto #2622 (Saturday 6th February 2021 - video):
No ticket won the £3,800,000 jackpot prize so there'll be a single rollover draw
[No ticket won £350,000 in Lotto HotPicks #1940]
Euro Millionswinning numbers for Euro Millions #1396 (Friday 5th February 2021 - video):
One UK Millionaire Maker winning ticket: XVJL31467
[No ticket won £1,000,000 in Euro Millions HotPicks #317]
Thunderballwinning numbers for Thunderball #2805 (Saturday 6th February 2021 - video):
No ticket won the £500,000 Thunderball jackpot
Set For Life winning numbers for Set For Life #198 (Thursday 4th February 2021 - video):
No ticket won the £3,600,000 Set For Life jackpot
UK National Lotto Newsflash (Saturday 6th February 2021):
Saturday's Thunderball full results are now available.
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