Live Lotto results for Saturday, May 17: National Lottery winning numbers from tonight's draw
The weekend is finally here, which means it is the second chance of the week to win the National Lottery.
One lucky winner out there could get their hands on £11.4m in tonight's Lotto draw, which could be life changing. There's also £500,000 to be won in the Thunderball draw. The winning National Lottery Lotto numbers are drawn at 8pm, while the National Lottery Thunderball numbers are drawn at 8.15pm. We'll have those results live below.
The National Lottery says it creates over nine million winners each week, with on average of seven new millionnaires.
The UK National Lottery was first drawn on November 19, 1994. Half of all money spent by players goes to the prize fund with 28% to good causes, 12% to the Government as duty, 5% to retailers, and 5% which has operated the lottery throughout its history.
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