Set For Life
Next estimated jackpot:
£10K A Month For 30 Years
About Set For Life
Set for Life was the first lottery of its kind launched in the UK that offers a prize paid out monthly for 30 years, rather than a one-off lump sum payment of a jackpot. It follows the same template of a lotteries of the same kind and, in some cases, name that you find in the USA and Australia. The UK Set for Life offers a top prize of £10,000 per month for 30 years and a second prize of £10,000 per month for a year.
Draws take place every Monday and Thursday at 8pm, with the winning numbers announced immediately after and the prize information to follow roughly 45mins later.
Set for Life Overview
After launching in March 2019, Set for Life immediately had an avid following in the UK after there had been calls and rumours of an annuity type lottery across the country for years. There were already many lotteries of the same style in the USA and a Set for Life in Australia, so it was only natural for the National Lottery to follow suit and offer a very similar game. After launch it only took 12 weeks for the top prize to be won, with the first annuity winner coming on 6th June 2019.
Players need to choose five numbers from a pool of 1 – 47, known as the main numbers, and then one Life Ball from a separate set of balls labelled 1 – 10. As with all National Lottery games you can also get a Lucky Dip with a random selection of these numbers. Each ticket costs £1.50 to enter, making it cheaper to enter than the two flagship games of Lotto and EuroMillions.
The top prize will give the lucky winner £10,000 per month for 30 years, or £3.6 million in total, whilst you can also win an annuity style prize for the second level as £10,000 per month for a year, or £120,000. More information on the prizes and odds can be found in the relevant section below.
Set for Life draws also take place on Monday and Thursday- both of which were days where there were no lottery draws in the UK prior to 2019. The introduction of Set for Life now means that UK players can enter a National Lottery draw on every day of the week other than Sunday.
Set For Life & Lotto Comparison
Draw Days
Jackpot
Prize Levels
Ticket Price
Jackpot Odds
Set For Life
Monday and Thursday
£10,000/Month for 30 years
8
£1.50
1 in 15,339,390
Lotto
Wednesday and Saturday
£7,400,000
6
£2
1 in 45,057,474
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Statistics
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Number Generator
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Set For Life Prizes and Odds
In total there are eight prize tiers you can win in for every Set for Life draw, starting with a £5 prize for matching two balls and increasing at every level for every extra ball matched up to the jackpot of £10,000 per month for 30 years for matching all five balls and the Life Ball. Obviously the odds lengthen at each prize level, with the odds of winning the jackpot being 1 in 15,339,390. This might seem like tough odds but they are 3x more favourable than Lotto and nearly 10x more favourable than EuroMillions!
All the odds and each prize can be found in the table below:
| Prize Level | Prize | Odds of Winning | Winners in Last Draw | Avg. Winners Per Draw |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match 5 + Life Ball | £10,000/month for 30 years | 1 in 15,339,390 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Match 5 | £10,000/month for a year | 1 in 1,704,377 | 5 | 1.3 |
| Match 4 + Life Ball | £250 | 1 in 73,045 | 45 | 29.7 |
| Match 4 | £50 | 1 in 8,116 | 424 | 265.3 |
| Match 3 + Life Ball | £30 | 1 in 1,782 | 1,419 | 1,213 |
| Match 3 | £20 | 1 in 198 | 14,432 | 10,869.6 |
| Match 2 + Life Ball | £10 | 1 in 134 | 17,881 | 16,140.7 |
| Match 2 | £5 | 1 in 15 | 163,081 | 144,831.6 |
| The overall Set For Life odds are approx. 1 in 12.4 | ||||
Set For Life Quick Stats
Looking for Set for Life stats? Below we have the hot and cold numbers from recent draws, but you can also find more stats by using the button below these stats.
Hot Numbers
- 21
- 3
- 26
- 11
- 40
Cold Numbers
- 28
- 1
- 45
- 46
- 41