Overview
- The National Lottery rolled out the two‑round Lotto on Wednesday 10 June, drawing two separate sets of six numbers and producing no six‑number winner so the £2m jackpot rolled to an estimated £3.8m for the next draw.
- Under the new UK rules every £2 Lotto line is entered into two distinct rounds using two machines while players still pick six numbers from 1 to 59 and other prize tiers are paid per round.
- Allwyn says the reform should improve the odds of winning any prize from about 1‑in‑9.3 to about 1‑in‑4.9 and expects annual Lotto millionaires to rise from roughly 140 to about 345, while jackpots will still start at £2m and can roll over five times before a must‑be‑won draw.
- Sizekhaya took over South Africa’s National Lottery in late May/early June and has raised PowerBall entry fees to R10, narrowed the PowerBall range to 1–16, and carried forward large pools with PowerBall/PowerBall Xtra reported at about R153m after an earlier R130m payout.
- Sizekhaya has published claimant rules requiring winners to be 18, hold the winning ticket and ID, have a South African bank account and claim within 365 days, and the UK Lotto change will continue to fund large weekly distributions to good causes.