It's quick and easy to set up. Simply select “By Direct Debit” when choosing the number of weeks to play your lottery, EuroMillions or. Simply select “By Direct Debit” when choosing the number of weeks to play on your Lotto, EuroMillions or Thunderball game tickets. You need a license to organize an online lottery.
Online lotteries include lotteries on social media, auction or sales sites, fundraising platforms, and live streaming platforms. We monitor the boundaries between lotteries, contests and free sweepstakes to ensure that the people who organize lotteries are properly licensed. Playing the Age UK Weekly lottery offers you the chance to win incredible cash prizes, but it also means that you support a charity. If you then decide to increase this number (up to a maximum of 75 or any lower number set by Camelot), the change will take 24 hours to take effect.
When playing by direct debit, they will be governed by the account conditions and the rules of online games based on draws, as well as by the relevant gaming procedures. You can buy tickets for games based on drawings or set up a direct debit every day between 6:00 and 23:00, except on the day of the drawing, when you will have to buy your ticket before 7:30 p.m. You will be able to access your National Lottery account and return to playing online as normal once your short rest period ends. You must create a National Lottery account before you can play the National Lottery games on the website or app, and you can only play online if you are physically in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man.
Both options are available in the “Moderate instant prize games” section of your National Lottery account. For full details on when the games will be available to play, visit the information pages for each game. However, if you win the first Set For Life prize, part of the monthly payment will be subject to income tax (although, according to the tax regulations and rates in force on the date of publication of this Service Guide, you will not receive less than 10,000€ per month after taxes, subject to limits). Unless you follow the procedure described in the following paragraph, prizes for games based on drawings must be claimed within 180 days from the date of the corresponding drawing (subject to the deadlines set out in the How to Claim My Prize section, below).
You can only re-access ALL Instant Win games, or specific Instant Win games that you've stopped playing, if you contact the customer support team during their normal operating hours. You can choose to take a break from all online games, or you can permanently exclude yourself (lifetime exclusion) from your National Lottery account. No, you must be physically located in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man when using your account, including when purchasing a National Lottery game online and when setting up or modifying a direct debit (including adding or removing game receipts and changing your payment details). If you play instant prize games online (including purchasing tickets through The National Lottery app), the rules of interactive instant prize games and the relevant gaming procedures (and any game-specific rules) will apply.
