{"id":201526,"date":"2020-08-28T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=201526"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:23:47","slug":"national-lottery-rules-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/national-lottery-rules-change\/","title":{"rendered":"National Lottery Rules Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The rules for the British national lottery have changed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_201554\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-201554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/B3448B65-6DE0-40EC-A0A4-13FA1FF4B459-300x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/B3448B65-6DE0-40EC-A0A4-13FA1FF4B459-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/B3448B65-6DE0-40EC-A0A4-13FA1FF4B459.png 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-201554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millions play the lottery every week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For once, in the players favour too!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not very often that someone wins the big jackpot, so the new rules will allow those with only 2 numbers to win \u00a35. It\u2019s not a crazy amount, but it\u2019s certainly better than nothing!<\/p>\n<p>The change only applies to \u201cmust be won\u201d games, where if no one wins the top prize, it\u2019s split between other winners &#8211; hence the name. Previous instances like this would mean cash would be awarded to people with 3 numbers, but it seems now more people have a chance at winning!<\/p>\n<p>The rule will be coming into effect officially from the 7th of November this year, so until then, the rules for 2 matching numbers hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW212094749 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW212094749 BCX0\">Commercial director Neil Brocklehurst said: &#8220;We know an unexpected extra fiver &#8211; which could be spent on chocolates, a book, or coffee for a friend &#8211; can really put a smile on someone&#8217;s face.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The first ever national lottery draw was in 1994, and since then millions and millions of pounds have been won by brits. The highest ever jackpot was over \u00a3170,000,000&#8230; that\u2019s a lot of zeros!<\/p>\n<p>However, you do have to be extremely lucky to win that sort of money &#8211; if not any money at all. Out of all of the games on the national lottery, you\u2019re most likely to win the Thunderball jackpot. But even then, \u00a0the chances of that are around 8,000,000 to 1!<\/p>\n<p>Still, it doesn\u2019t hurt to put a few pounds on the lottery every week, and especially once the new rules come into place. \u00a35? Thats lunch paid for at work for a day!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rules for the British national lottery have changed.\u00a0 For once, in the players favour too! It\u2019s not very often that someone wins the big jackpot, so the new rules will allow those with only 2 numbers to win \u00a35. It\u2019s not a crazy amount, but it\u2019s certainly better than nothing! The change only applies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":201554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1828,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-201526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-lottery","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201555,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201526\/revisions\/201555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}