I believe the UK lottery has a required-by-law payout percentage of 42.47%. 28% also has to be donated to charity. Which means, assuming you would donate to c

I believe the UK lottery has a required-by-law payout percentage of 42.47%. 28% also has to be donated to charity. Which means, assuming you would donate to charity anyway, you are only wasting, on average, 30% of your money. That is substantially better than the US powerball (at ~90%).