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by londons_explore 1039 days ago
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%).