Everybody who has ever bought a lottery ticket will at some time have asked themselves this question. What are the odds of winning the national lottery? In order to answer this perennial question, we decided to give you a few simple comparisons to explain the true odds of becoming a lottery millionaire.
Odds of winning the national lottery
- 2 numbers (FREE ticket) 1 in 10.3 or 10% – You are more likely to live to be 100 if born after 1951
- 3 numbers (£25) 1 in 97 or 1.03% – You are more likely to sneeze today
- 4 numbers (£100) 1 in 2,180 or 0.05% – You are more likely to have twins
- 5 numbers (£1,000) 1 in 144,415 or 0.0006% – You are more likely to bowl a perfect game at ten-pin bowling (11,500:1)
- 5 numbers + bonus 1 in 7,509,579 or 0.000007% – You are more likely to be killed by lightning (2,320,000:1)
- Jackpot 1 in 45,057,474 0.0000045% – You have more chance of becoming an Astronaut! (13,200,000:1)
