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Didn't win the £210 Euromillions? Full list of the lottery games with the highest chance of you winning
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LAST night, the life of a French lottery player changed forever, after they scooped up an enormous £210 million Euromillions prize.
Thousands of Brits have been left devastated to have missed out on the eye-watering sum, but with the chance of winning the top prize standing at 1 in 139 million, the odds definitely aren't in your favour.
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So, if you are keen to bag yourself a windfall, which lotto has the highest chance of winning?
Postcode Lottery
Entering the Postcode Lottery is your best bet, with 87% of people winning a prize in 2024.
The chance of winning a big prize (Postcode Millions, Millionaire Street or £250,000 prize) is better than one in 250,000 and the chance of winning £1000 are better than 1 in 2000.
In July, 18.3% of playing postcodes bagged prizes.
To play the Postcode Lottery, you have to pay a £12.25 a month fee, which automatically enters you in to the draw.
The winning postcodes are announced every month, and if your postcode wins, you will get a prize.
Health Lottery
The Health Lottery raises funds for health related causes in the UK, and has just 20,000 weekly players (compared with 100 million Euromillions players).
According to the Health Lottery website, the odds of winning any All of Nothing Prize is 1 in 4.5 and the odds of winning the All or Nothing Jackpot is £1.35 million.
The odds of winning the Big Win jackpot are 1 in 2.1 million, and the odds of winning any Big Win prize is 1 in 9.7.
Tickets start from just £1, and The Health Lottery is drawn five times a week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays.
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Set For Life
Set For Life gives players the chance to win £10,000 every month for the next 30 years, and the odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 15.3 million.
The odds of winning the second prize (£10,000 every month for a year) is 1 in 1.7 million.
And the odds of winning any prize at all is 1 in 12.4.
Set For Life tickets costs £1.50 per line, and the draw takes place every Monday and Thursday.
How to increase your chances of winning the lottery
The odds of picking a winning lottery ticket are pretty slim but there are some ways to improve your chances .
Games with small jackpots tend to have better odds, so it's worth taking notice of the difference. For example, EuroMillions is harder to win than UK Lotto.
Some lotteries may have bonus numbers or other features which could improve someone's chance of winning.
Looking at these additional elements and understanding them can help someone make a more informed decision when choosing their numbers.
Each lottery draw is random and balls have the same chance of being drawn.
However, there are some balls that statistically have appeared more often than others which could make them seem a better bet.
For example, previous research has showed that number 38 was most common, 23 was second most drawn, followed by 31, 11, 45 and 25.
There is another easy way of getting more tickets at the same cost and that is by joining a syndicate.
Of course, you share the winnings, but the chances of matching the numbers drawn are vastly improved.
Thunderball
The top prize on Thunderball is £500,000, and you have a one in eight million chance of being the lucky winner.
However, the odds of winning any prize at all on Thunderball are just one in 13.
Thunderball draws take place five times a week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and you can pick up tickets for as little as £1.
National Lottery
A lotto ticket costs £2 (up from £1 when the game launched) and sees players select six numbers between one and 59 as well as a bonus ball.
Customers have the choice of selecting a lucky dip to determine their pick or choosing their own numbers, with some sticking loyal to the same selection every week.
To win the Lotto jackpot players must match the six main numbers in the draw.
The odds of winning the Lotto jackpot are currently around 45million to one.
However, the odds of winning any prize at all on the National Lottery are one in 54.
Euromillions
A ticket for the EuroMillions will cost you £2.50, with players selecting five main numbers between one and 50 as well as two lucky stars, between one and 12.
The draw is open to players across Europe and has a huge jackpot prize.
Accordingly, the odds of winning the EuroMillions, which is drawn every Tuesday and Friday, are much lower than Lotto at one in 139million.
However, the chance of winning any prize is just one in 13.
