The National Lottery is back up and running after a complete pause over the weekend to enable the biggest technology upgrade in the game’s 31-year history.

Operator Allwyn said store terminals were back online at 9am on Monday, followed by the website and app at 9.30am.

The first ticket bought on a new “state-of-the-art” Wave lottery terminal – of which there are 8,000 in shops across the UK – was bought in Peterlee, Durham.

Allwyn said it had sold a ticket across all four main games – Set For Life, EuroMillions , Thunderball and Lotto – within two minutes of retail shops opening for trading.

Players can expect the same National Lottery online experience as most of the weekend’s updates took place behind the scenes.

However the new Wave lottery in-store terminals will speed up t

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