World’s biggest lottery lands in UK today with tickets for £300m jackpot (UK/USA) 21/Jul/2026

Lottery players in the UK have the chance to win The National Lottery's biggest ever jackpot as tickets for the new Powerball game go . #powerballUSA #powerballUK #lottery #lottery2026 What they do not tell you is that the potential increase in players - up to 70 million means odds go down and more winners potentially, US players may feel robbed as it goes international and see other people in another country winning and UK players will have to fork out much more than American players for the fees. Now, look. I did extensive research on El Gordo, the Spanish lottery, wanting to play that for years and when I found out you could in the UK - I researched it and even got my family interested. However, on crunching the numbers, basically speaking on a 1/10 and ticket share the mark up was so much more: example: a share ticket bought in Spain €20 in the UK the handling site/fee £35 (the pound and euro were about the same price) or Spain 100% price - UK 175% price So unfair, I scrubbed the whole idea. Now, the US powerball lottery: Ticket Cost: Tickets are priced at £4 per line in the UK (compared to $2 per play in the United States). Exchange rate at this date is: $1 to £1.34 £4 a line is = to $5.35 (or more than two and a half tickets in the USA). Therefore, the operators in the USA and UK are the only winners here and perhaps the taxman, unless you are extremely lucky to win big and not have to share it with now, millions of new players. This is unfair, I will therefore pass. Another ripoff and in the cost of living crisis (UK at least) not helpful to ordinary people.