UK National Lottery Reviews 

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Looking at 464 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people found the user experience frustrating, particularly with the new app and website, describing them as difficult to navigate, find tickets, or check results. Customers were also highly dissatisfied with the new prize structure and lower payouts, considering them an insult and a significant downgrade from previous offerings. However, some customers also noted frequent technical problems, such as the app or website being down, login errors, or difficulties accessing their accounts. A few other people also felt that they were not receiving timely notifications or reminders about their tickets.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Yes, the new lottery prize structure is a joke, trying you to filter in that you are winning with a £1 prize and making you more addictive when you receive that email. The old game was a lot better, i... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

At the risk of sounding crude, the new lottery app is a total load of sh*t! Lots of issues that were never a problem before but my main bugbear is trying to find my tickets to check. Why can't you pu... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This company seems too enjoy changing the lottery for fun. Today (Tuesday 28/4/26) it's down yet again. Camelot weren't perfect but better than this lot. For goodness sake get a grip and make it goo... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The prize structure for normal draws are an embarrassment. The highlight for everyone was the “Must Be Won” aspect…. At least if nobody won the big prize, all the other prizes were sufficiently... See more


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

National Lottery Scam

The main structural changes to the prize tiers triggering backlash include:
• Match 2 (Loss of Free Ticket): Matching two numbers used to reward players with a free £2 Lucky Dip ticket, giving them another full entry. It now awards a flat cash prize of just £1. Because a standard line costs £2, players are angry that a Match 2 "win" results in a net financial loss of £1 and does not provide enough cash to buy another line.
• Match 3 (Slashed by 66%): A three-ball match previously paid out a guaranteed £30. The payout has been cut down to a miserly £10.
• Match 4 (Slashed by 64%): Players matching four balls used to receive £140. This tier has been reduced to only £50.
• Match 5 (Slashed by 42%): A five-ball match has dropped from a standard £1,750 down to £1,000.

10 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

After playing the lottery since it…

After playing the lottery since it started, I have now collected my online funds and closed my account down, I won £1 last night, ridiculous amount why would I spend £2 to win £1 The Lottery has lost its way. Shame on you.

10 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

New Lotto lower tier prizes gone back to 1990s won’t be playing it again.

The new change that came into effect around the 10th June is absolute rubbish, it’s gone backwards to the late 1990s in its prize money allocation, gone from £30 for 3 numbers back to £10, 2 numbers used to give you a free lucky dip worth £2, now you win £1.00, so you’re not even getting the equivalent, you’re getting half, are they totally stupid or just obscenely greedy, my money is on greedy, all they’ve done is given extra prizes on the top 2, all 6 numbers and 5+ bonus ball, these are the ones that rarely come up as the odds are astronomical. I own a company with 12,000 people in it, scattered over various branches, every single one of them was in one of the syndicates that they run together playing twice a week, that’s £48,000 per week they paid to the lotto company just from my company alone. Having seen the changes to the lower tier prizes they have all stopped every single syndicate and not one of them is playing the new lotto, they are looking at alternatives. The whole lotto should be removed from Allwyn and closed down as it’s clearly being abused and rinsed by the owners, it should be government run to fund nhs and schools, not some greedy bastards life style.

10 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Nooooooo nooooo the national lottery…

Nooooooo nooooo the national lottery messed up very messed up with this new way with the pay outs for lotto and lotto hot pick not happy bring the old way much better more money why would I pay £2 per line on lotto for such lower pay out £1 for 2 numbers & £10 for three numbers sort it out before no one will ever play again & for lotto hot picks 3 numbers £400 where it was £800 before not good not good at all

10 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Dreadful new lottery format

The new format of having two draws is absolutely dreadful with the smaller prizes just not worth having. It used to be £30 for three numbers which althoug a small amount was nice to win and made it worthwhile now it's ten pounds. Today I had two numbers and instead of a lucky dip I was given £1 pathetic!!! seriously considering looking at other lotteries now.

11 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

New lottery draw what a load of rubbish…

New lottery draw what a load of rubbish massively reduced prizes costs £2 and you can win £1... 3 numbers prize reduced by £20...and so on terrible... they say it's better lmao wake up allwyn I mean how often do you even get 2 or three numbers anyway 🤣 pathetic...I will never play again 🧐🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

11 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Can't put numbers on for whole month

The national lottery app is particularly rubbish as it doesn't let you put numbers on for 5 weeks which is important for the thousands of small syndicates that put all their numbers on monthly. Is this really difficult to offer.

10 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Revert back to the old website

When attempting to replay my last numbers for the next 4 weeks, it can now only pick up on a lucky dip that you've won? Messages aren't clearly showing which have and haven't been opened. I can no longer view or screenshot the entire tickets, which is annoying when I want to check if I've won, since you can't log in in the small hours. This website used to be really easy to navigate, now it just gives me a headache. It's also annoying that I missed to renew my 4 weekly tickets on lotto and set for life because no email had been sent to inform me they'd ended. None of these things were an issue before.

9 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sarcasm and Exasperation is not an Appropriate Response

Today, I encountered an error with my online account and so for the first time ever, I rang the National Lottery helpline. I was treated to heavy sarcasm, disbelief and utter frustration in my response to my description of my account's interaction with the website. If everything always works the way it should, there would be no need for a helpline!
Please employ people with a longer fuse, who don't treat you like an idiot and who don't respond with "nah" when you point our their obvious exasperation.

4 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It's a big scam

It's a big scam, no one has ever won big money, only small amounts of money, it's better for people to save their money, you can't win here, I tried it and the winnings were a maximum of 5 pounds and when I wanted to transfer them to my account, it couldn't be done, my own experience and I'm not alone, many people see it the way I do because they tried it

30 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unable to update my debit card due to 6…

Unable to update my debit card due to 6 week old transaction not clearing.
On line support not responding.
Kept on hold for 30 minutes before i gave up trying to sort my account.
There is a major problem with this app and the organisation that run it.
Where are the call handlers?

29 May 2026
Unprompted review

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