What are the odds of winning the lottery in the UK?? (6 numbers)?

Question

What are the odds of winning the lottery in the UK?? (6 numbers)?

Answer 1

It's very easy to work out the odds of a sum like this

49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44  equals 10,068,347,520

then divide that number by the answer of 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 which equals 720 and you get the answer which is

13,983,816 to one.

This sum works out for calculating the number of doubles out of a four horse accumulator for instance.

http://www.lottery-student.co.uk/guide/c...

Answer 2

W/e it is, you won't win EVER.

Don't waste that money.  Go put it towards something USEFUL.

Answer 3

In combinations one use 6 chose 49 here in Canada and since my calculater is not handy I can state that it is close to 1/13 000 000.

Answer 4

this question hads been answered many times before - 1 in 13,983,816, as follows (49! minus 43!) / 6!

Answer 5

I heard it was 13 million to 1, but I'm not totally sure.

Answer 6

14,000,000 to 1

Answer 7

13,999999 to 1

Answer 8

Match Prize Approximate odds

3 numbers £10 per winner 56:1 (i.e. 1 in 57)

4 numbers 22% of remaining fund 1,031:1

5 numbers 10% of remaining fund 55,490:1

5 numbers and bonus ball 16% of remaining fund 2,330,635:1

6 numbers 52% of remaining fund 13,983,815:1 (i.e. 1 in 13,983,816)

so its about 14,000,000 to 1, so if the jackpot is more - go fo it...

Answer 9

Most pundits will tell you it's 14.4 million to 1.

You stand a better chance of being hit by a piece of falling space hardware (no reference to the one shot down by the US Navy),  or a Jumbo-Jet crashing into the middle shelf of your oven whilst you are placing an apple pie on the work top to left of the kitchen sink.

You would be more likely to die of "tropical frost bite" or "North Polar Heat-Stroke".

You might even be more likely to earn a multi-million pound award for your Earth saving invention.

In short,  they're very long odds!

Answer 10

play it, you could win, good luck!!!

Answer 11

14 million to 1.....so its tough to win!!!!!