How does this work exactly for the lottery?

[kmo0416]

For the national lottery, you're allowed to play a maximum of seven lines per payslip but have 10 payslips in total. Doesn't this mean you actually have a maximum of seventy lines to play in a draw? Is that how it works - I'm confused.

You pay per line, so say you did 10 lines, that would be 2 slips, one with 7 on and one with 3, and you'd pay ten x £2 or whatever the cost is for the specific lottery. You don't have to use all the lines on a slip.

Has someone prepaid for 10 slips for you? I'm a bit confused by the question!

Which lottery?

In one transactions, it's a maximum of 70 lines you can buy over the 10 slips.

There's nothing stopping people doing multiple transactions one different days etc.

It would be a nightmare to void all the tickets if someone's payment didn't go through and they allowed endless slips!

Euromillions and Lotto Hotpicks

But why wouldn't those ten lines just be on one slip - i don't understand why they need to be divided into groups of seven if you want to purchase more than seven lines in one go. I could understand maybe buying a slip on Monday and then deciding to buy another slip on Tuesday for the same draw on Wednesday - but if you're buying everything at once why is it needed to have multiple slips?

Probably because that’s the maximum you can fit on the slip? 🤷🏻‍♀️ the slips are are all a fixed size. There not a continuous reel of paper like receipt paper. They are all the same size. The print is also consistent etc. so you wouldn’t be able to print additional lines

It's the number of lines the machine can read in one go