Percentage Return
The National Lottery is a jackpot system with the majority of winnings going to those few players who pick all six numbers. For long term players, or those buying many tickets the average percentage return will equal the share of the ticket sales devoted to prize funds, about 45%. For evey £1 spent, they may expect to get £0.45 back. However, the spread of returns will be very wide and influenced by several factors that change week-by-week (e.g. the number of tickets sold, 'the distinct-ness' of the winning numbers) and ultimately, if you don't win big, you won't get a return on your investment. An empirical assessment using 10,000 random sets of numbers each week for 3 years found that, had the tickets been bought, the rate of return would have been less than 30%.
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