UK lottery wheels

Buying tickets in the UK

• You must be 18 or over to play any National Lottery game, in shops and online.
• Online play has a spending limit of £500 every 7 days (£1,500 for a syndicate manager), so a big wheel played every draw may need to be bought in a shop.
• Shops take only official play slips, filled in by hand: printed or photocopied slips aren't accepted.
• The National Lottery doesn't sell system or full-wheel entries: every line is one set of numbers, which is what a wheel's tickets are.

In shops, only official National Lottery play slips are accepted, so copy each line onto a play slip by hand. You can also buy online at national-lottery.co.uk or in the National Lottery app if you live in the UK or the Isle of Man and you're there when you play.

For the official rules and results, see the National Lottery. LotteryWheels.com is independent and not part of the National Lottery.

Syndicates

The National Lottery has an official syndicates page with a sample agreement. Any draw game can be played as a syndicate, all prizes are paid to the syndicate manager to share out, and there's no limit on members. Online, the manager plays from their own account flagged as a syndicate manager (they must be 25 or over).

Tax on prizes

National Lottery prizes aren't subject to UK Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax. Interest on winnings is taxed as usual, and a syndicate should agree how to share a prize before it wins, so the payouts aren't treated as gifts.

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