The UK49s Lottery started in the mid-1990s in the United Kingdom. It was made by a private company, UK Limited, and it is not part of the UK’s National Lottery. The main reason for starting UK49s was to give people more chances to play and win every day.
At that time, the National Lottery only had one or two draws a week. UK49s offered something new — two draws every day called Lunchtime and Teatime.
The Lunchtime draw happens around 12:49 PM (UK time), and the Teatime draw takes place around 5:49 PM (UK time). Both draws happen every single day.
Players can choose between 1 to 6 numbers from a pool of numbers ranging from 1 to 49. This game gives players more control. You can pick how many numbers to play, how much money to bet, and whether to play one draw or both in a day. As more people learned about UK49s, the game became very popular, especially in betting shops across the UK. By 2002, the UK49s game was making more than £2.5 million per week in bets. Many players liked the flexible rules.
It was simple to play, didn’t cost much to enter, and you could win depending on how many numbers you matched and how much you staked. This flexibility made UK49s different from other lottery games.
Later on, UK49s introduced something called the Booster Ball. This extra ball gave players another number to help increase their chances of winning.
