EUROMILLIONS returned last night with a life changing £14million waiting to be won by a lucky ticketholder.
The draw took place at 8.45pm on Tuesday, with the Thunderball draw also returning at 8pm – offering Brits the chance to win a tidy £500,000.
The winning numbers for the EuroMillions were: 19, 20, 26, 33, 43; and the lucky stars were: 1, 4
For the Thunderball the numbers were: 2, 5, 28, 34, 36 and 1
Meanwhile, tonight's draw is the Lotto with a DOUBLE rollover. This means one lucky person could win £5.3million.
Always remember to gamble responsibly. And when the fun stops, stop.
Read our National Lottery live blog below for the latest updates…
- Milica Cosic
Explained: When do the Lotto results come out?
The Lotto draw takes place tonight at 8pm, meaning the results will follow shortly after.
The winning numbers will be posted on our blog.
Until then, there’s plenty of time left to play until the draw… so what are you waiting for?!
Always remember to play responsibly though.
- Milica Cosic
When is the next Lotto draw?
The Lotto draws take place every Wednesday and Saturday.
The next Lotto draw will take place tonight, on December 1.
Punters will be able to see the results of the draw on our blog.
- Milica Cosic
Recap: Last night's numbers
Last night, the EuroMillions and Thunderball draw were on.
The winning EuroMillions numbers were: 19, 20, 26, 33, 43; and the lucky stars were: 1, 4
For the Thunderball, the numbers were: 2, 5, 28, 34, 36 and 1
Good luck to all who played!
- Joseph Gamp
‘We won, then gave our winnings away’
A £115million jackpot is probably enough to not just change your life, but the lives of everyone you’ve ever cared about too.
Which is probably why Frances and Patrick Connolly decided to give over half of their winnings to 175 people.
“We won £114,969,775.70 and we have given away more than half,” Frances said last year.
“That’s £60million-worth of love. And the thing that makes me even happier is that every single person we gave money to has passed some of it on to other people. I can’t think of a day since winning the Lottery that I haven’t smiled.”
- Joseph Gamp
‘I was made an example of after winning the Lottery’
Former chip shop worker Leah Sumray won £1million in 2007 — but ended up behind bars less than a year later for failing to testify at someone else’s trial.
She ignored a witness summons to give evidence in an assault case, instead jetting off on a £2,000 luxury holiday to Fuerteventura.
Sumray, who was 21 at the time of her win, was jailed for 14 days for contempt of court.
“I know I did something wrong and I’m sorry,” she told The Mirror in 2008.
“But I feel I was made an example of because I was a Lotto winner.”
- Joseph Gamp
The couple who won lottery twice after losing their son to Covid
A couple won two lottery prizes in two weeks, just months after tragically losing their son to Covid.
Susan Slater and her husband won more than £30,000 on the People’s Postcode Lottery twice in July of this year.
They now want to use the cash to remember their son Steve, who died with coronavirus.
Susan, 74, said she couldn’t believe it when she found out that she had won again: “When I got the phone call for this, I’d told quite a few people that I’d won £1,000 and I thought ‘this is a wind-up, someone is winding me up!’
“Nowhere in my imagination did I think I was going to be lucky enough to win £30,000.”
- Joseph Gamp
Got to be in it to win it
Euro-millions.com says the odds of picking five numbers and the two Lucky Stars is 1 in 139,838, 160.
Matching five numbers and one star has odds of 1 in 6,991,908.
There is a 1 in 22 chance of matching two numbers in the draw.
The approximate overall odds of winning a prize in EuroMillions are 1 in 13.
According to the EuroMillions website, the chances of winning the UK Millionaire Maker game can be estimated as 1 in 1,900,000.
But winning in this game depends entirely on the number of the payslips sold so the odds therefore fluctuate.
- Joseph Gamp
Crazy spending
A LUXURY holiday, an expensive shopping spree, a flashy new motor – the possibilities are endless when you’re a new millionaire.
But such vast wealth is not something to be foolishly frittered away, as recently skint Michael ‘Lotto Lout’ Carroll will attest to after blowing £9.7m on drugs and sex parties.
However, not everyone has such frivolous plans when it comes to spending their lottery money.
Here we reveal some of the most unusual ways people have celebrated their newfound wealth.
Read more here.
- Joseph Gamp
Set For Life winner becomes full time ghost hunter
A WOMAN who scooped £10,000 a month on the National Lottery Set For Life has quit her job to become a ghost hunter with her husband.
Part-time paranormal investigator Laura Hoyle, 39, has decided to ditch her day job to pursue her spooky passion with Kirk Stevens, 37, after their big win.
The 39-year-old is used to shocks – after realising she had landed the life-changing amount of money when she initially thought she had only won a fiver.
Laura was able to immediately jack in her job at a logistics firm, after realising the cash could allow her to concentrate on her ghost-hunting hobby full-time.
Read more here.
- Joseph Gamp
When is the next Lotto draw?
The Lotto draws take place every Wednesday and Saturday.
The next Lotto draw will take place on November 6.
Punters will be able to watch the draw as it is streamed live on the National Lottery website and on YouTube .
- Joseph Gamp
Scratchcard odds REVEALED
THEY are the brightly-coloured cards that cost just a few pounds but could make you a millionaire in seconds.
But knowing which of the many National Lottery scratchcards to go for to turn your few quid into a fortune can be a troublesome task.
Thankfully, experts have crunched the numbers to reveal the odds of bagging a win – and the answer might surprise you.
According to Oddschecker, the best scratchcard to snap up is £500 Loaded with odds of just 1 in 3.15.
For just a fiver you could be in the running for £500.
In second place, with the same odds, is Full of £500s which also has a top prize of £500.
Cashword Multiplier follows close behind, which sees punters scratch off letters to reveal symbols to create full words.
- Joseph Gamp
Money doesn’t buy happiness
For many, winning the jackpot means mass celebrations and ultra-expensive cars – but not for Susan Hardman.
When the mum-of-one’s numbers came up in January 2010 she worked as a hairdresser in Eardisley, Hereford, and was “struggling financially”.
Instead of splashing out when the £1.2million win landed in her bank account, she traded in her scissors for overalls and became a pig farmer.
Susan claimed to be happier than ever knee-deep in mud and said bringing a piglet into the world brought her “more satisfaction” than winning the lottery.
- Joseph Gamp
Can lottery winners remain anonymous in the UK?
Absolutely! Lottery winners can keep their anonymity in the UK.
There is also a common myth or misconception that remaining anonymous affects the amount of money you win.
However, this is absolutely false and your decision about whether or not to go public has no bearing on your jackpot.
- Joseph Gamp
What prizes can be claimed at the Post Office?
Prizes up to £500 can be claimed at the Lottery terminal in store.
For prizes over £500 and up to £50,000, you must take your winning ticket to the Lottery terminal for scanning and then go to the PO counter.
AND, if you’ve been really, really lucky and won over £50,000, you will need to claim your prize in person.
- Joseph Gamp
The UK’s biggest unclaimed lottery win
The UK’s biggest unclaimed win was from June 2012, when a Euromillions prize worth £63.8 million.
The prize money was never picked up by its unfortunate owner.
The ticket was bought in the Stevenage or Hitchin areas of Hertfordshire but, after the allowed time period to claim expired, the money was instead distributed among charitable causes.
- Joseph Gamp
The man who won the lottery seven times
American man, Richard Lustig, is the only person in the world who has won the lottery seven times.
In an interview with ABC News, Lustig explained that his method wass to re-invest all of his winnings back into the lottery, and also recommended using hand-picked sequential numbers, as well as using the same numbers repeatedly.
Lustig’s total wins amount to a value of $1,052,205.58, which is about £766,736.95.
- Win 1: January 1993 (scratch-off ticket) – $10,000
- Win 2: August 1997 (Florida Fantasy 5) – $13,696.03
- Win 3: June 2000 (“scratch-off ticket “2nd chance drawing”) – $3,594.66
- Win 4: October 2001 (“scratch-off ticket “2nd chance drawing”) – valued at $4,966
- Win 5: January 2002 (Florida Mega Money) – $842,152.91
- Win 6: November 25, 2008 (Florida Fantasy 5) $73,658.06
- Win 7: August 9, 2010 (Florida Fantasy 5) – $98,992.92
Mum scooped £300,000 on Lottery scratch card
A mum realised she had won £300,000 on a National Lottery scratch card after initially believing her winnings were just £1,000.
Sandra Davine only discovered her huge winnings after a life-changing phone call to a lottery line operator in December last year.
Sandra declared that she thought she had won £1,000 – enquiring as to how it could be claimed.
But unbeknown to her, her day was about a get a lot better as the phone line operator confirmed that she had actually scooped a whopping £300,000.
A stunned Sandra, of Renfrewshire, Scotland, can be heard saying: “You must be joking. There’s no way.”
NHS worker syndicate bagged £118,044 on EuroMillions
A SYNDICATE of 53 NHS workers won £118,044 on EuroMillions earlier this month.
They matched five numbers and one lucky star in the October 8 draw.
The syndicate members are mostly pharmacy staff at Morriston Hospital in Swansea and aged between 20 and 63.
They have been working flat out during the pandemic.
Pharmacy technician Kim Owen, 61, said: “It’s been a scary time for all of us so the win is extra special.”
Members of the syndicate, which is called the Pharmily Crew, will each receive £2,227. Most say they will spend their share on sunshine holidays.
Mapped: Top ten luckiest cities in the UK
The following map shows the top 10 luckiest lottery areas in the UK.
Lottery data shows the areas with the cities and towns with the highest number per capita of high-tier winners to scoop £50,000 or more on the National Lottery.
The National Lottery has now made over 6,100 millionaires in the UK.
Data taken from the launch of the lottery in 1994 until Sept 2019 reveals the luckiest regions.
Tale of $10million lotto winner fatally injected with painkillers by husband
A LOTTERY winner was killed by her doctor husband who injected her with painkillers after he accused her of squandering the cash.
Joseph Roncaioli, 72, was found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife Ibi who won $10 million she split with her friend.
Prosecutors told his trial he may have been have been upset his wife squandered the couple’s fortune leaving them with little money for retirement, the Toronto Star reported.
Passing sentence, the trial judge said his crime “more resembles a murder than an accidental killing”.
“It was intentional, not spontaneous,” said Justice Jane Ferguson.
Hungarian-born Ibi and her friend won $10 million on the lottery in Canada back in 1991 and the pair split the winnings.
Her husband’s trial heard that she gave away $2 million on a son whose existence was a secret from her other two boys.
Bad luck lotto winners
Dave and Angie Dawes couldn’t believe their luck when they won £101million in 2011.
And the generous couple decided to share their wealth by giving their friends £1million each.
“We’ve drawn up a list of 15 to 20 people that we’re going to make millionaires,” former Premier Foods supervisor Dave told The Guardian at the time.
“Anyone who has helped us through our lives.”
But despite their generosity, Lady Luck soon turned on the couple.
In 2017, the couple’s son, Michael, sued them for more cash after he blew through gifts of £1.6million in two years.
The Navy veteran tried to argue that he was led to believe that he would be given cash from the couple on an ongoing basis.
But a judge ultimately dismissed the case after hearing of Michael’s “astonishing” level of expenditure, which included a £1,000 weekly grocery bill.
- Milica Cosic
Too much too young
It is illegal for any retailer to sell these goods to anyone under the age of 18 – and will apply to favourite games like Lotto and the EuroMillions.
Online sales of lottery tickets and scratchcards have already been banned – this came into force in April this year.
The new age restriction, which was exclusively revealed by The Sun, aims to make sure the lottery is not a “gateway to problem gambling”, minister for sport, tourism and heritage Nigel Huddleston previously said.
Gambling is illegal for under-18s, but until now anyone 16 or over has been able to play National Lottery games.
- Milica Cosic
Winner, winner (continued)
Speaking at the time, syndicate leader Julie Saunders, 56, said she found out they had won the jackpot while visiting her father in a care home the day after the EuroMillions draw.
Julie, who worked at the hospital for 12 years, said: “Dreams really do come true.
“This win is life-changing for us all and the win is still sinking in.
“We are all so emotional but very, very happy.
“We will celebrate properly together after the excitement has died down.
“I’m not sure we will carry on playing as a syndicate – it is time to give someone else a chance of winning.
“We used to be dinner ladies — now we’re winner ladies.”
- Milica Cosic
Winner, winner, chicken dinner
A group of NHS dinner ladies who call themselves the “Catering Girls” ditched their jobs after scooping a £25m lottery jackpot in November 2017.
The lucky six all quit the health service after scooping the EuroMillions prize of £25,476,778.30.
The “Catering Girls” have been playing together for six years at their hospital in Port Talbot, South Wales.
They promised to have “one hell of a Christmas”.
In November 2018 they revealed that despite quitting their jobs, their lives are very much the same despite being millionaires.
- Milica Cosic
Becoming a ghost hunter
A WOMAN who scooped £10,000 a month on the National Lottery Set For Life has quit her job to become a ghost hunter with her husband.
Part-time paranormal investigator Laura Hoyle, 39, has decided to ditch her day job to pursue her spooky passion with Kirk Stevens, 37, after their big win.
The 39-year-old is used to shocks – after realising she had landed the life-changing amount of money when she initially thought she had only won a fiver.
Laura was able to immediately jack in her job at a logistics firm, after realising the cash could allow her to concentrate on her ghost-hunting hobby full-time.
Read more here.
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