Gambling in the United Kingdom this brand, including Lotto and Thunderball. As with other lotteries players choose a set of numbers, say 6 from 50, with six numbers then being drawn at random. Players win cash prizes depending on how many numbers they match. The National Lottery launched a pan-European "super-lottery", called EuroMillions, in 2004. Currently this is available in nine countries. In the United Kingdom, the national lottery has so far raised several billions of pounds for Good Causes, a programme which distributes money via grants. 28% of lottery revenue goes towards the fund, along with all unclaimed prizes. Additionally, 12% goes to the
Lottery mathematics winning numbers from the 6 winning numbers. This means that there are 6 - n losing numbers, which are chosen from the 43 losing numbers in formula_8 ways. The total number of combinations giving that result is, as stated above, the first number multiplied by the second. The expression is therefore formula_9. This can be written in a general form for all lotteries as: formula_10 where formula_11 is the number of balls in lottery, formula_12 is the number of balls in a single ticket, and formula_13 is the number of matching balls for a winning ticket. The generalisation of this