The Big Lottery Fund – part of the National Lottery – has got together with ITV to let the public decide where over £3 million in lottery grants will end up. The lottery initiative is planned to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and community groups are already being invited to bid for their local projects. In total there will be 60 Jubilee People’s Millions grants, each worth £60,000, that means there will be £3.6 million in grants to be given away!
There is no better way to start a new month than with a fantastic lottery rollover jackpot to play for. However, the 1st of December brings even better news for players in the UK, as not only are the festivities about to get into full swing as Christmas looms but they also have a UK Lottery double rollover jackpot to play for on Wednesday. On 24th November we saw the UK Lottery jackpot roll over for the first time meaning we saw the jackpot rise to a massive £7.8 million.
11/27/2010 draw 10,30,37,47,54,Powerball: 39,Power Play: 5 had 662,372 total winners with four Match 5s for $200,000 each. Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey and New Hampshire. Wed. jackpot is an est. $95 Million or $49.8 Million Cash Value.
A pensioner claims to have sent a winning Euromillions ticket to National Lottery organisers, through the post! Most lottery winners telephone to confirm big lottery wins, but Bernard McHugh, 77 from Blackburn in Lancashire, posted his winning Euromillions SuperRaffle ticket off to the National Lottery organisers, who have not yet received it the winning Euromilions SuperRaffle ticket.
It’s been such an exciting weekend for UK Lottery players with two rollover draws happening on two consecutive nights. On Friday evening, players were keen to get their hands on the staggering £38 million Euromillions double rollover jackpot, but that jackpot went to a single lottery player in Portugal. Then last night there was the UK Lotto rollover to look forward to. This jackpot couldn’t end up in Portugal but it still wasn’t lucky for UK lottery players as it rolled again, making an estimated £11 million jackpot for Wednesday night’s draw.
A 41-year-old labourer, who was teased by his friend for wasting money on two New York Lottery instant scratchcards, has walked away with a cool $1million. Michael Schmidt, of Burt, Niagara County, was out shopping on November 6 when he decided to try out his luck on two $5 lottery scratch-off tickets. He said: “I finished shopping and stopped at the (lottery) machine on the way out of the store. A friend walked by and laughed at me for wasting my money. Now, that makes me laugh!”
US states have been in the throes of celebrating Thanksgiving this month and this has seen some fantastic celebratory games offered by the various state lotteries around the US. The Oregon Lottery Thanksgiving Raffle has now taken place and as a result two millionaires have been created as well as more two thousand winners of lower tier prizes. The Oregon Lottery has held five raffles so far and this is the second raffle of this kind that has taken place in line with the celebrations for Thanksgiving.
11/26/2010 draw 5,9,34,43,47,Mega: 8,Megaplier: 2 had over 450,000 winning tickets with six Match 5s. Two in New York and one each in Michigan, Ohio, Delaware and South Carolina. Tuesday jackpot is an est. $52 Million or $34.5 Million Cash Option.
Last night’s Euromillions draw was so exciting! A £38 million jackpot meant players flocked in their droves to buy lottery tickets and who can blame them. However, from all the tickets sold, just one player scoops the Euromillions double rollover, collecting £38,556,253, tax-free! Unfortunately, this big Euromillions winner was not from the UK, although it’s not yet known which of the nine Euromillions participating countries the lottery winner is from.
It’s quite unbelievable to see the unclaimed lottery prizes that are to expire before Christmas if the winners cannot be found. It’s just a few weeks until Christmas and all of us are wishing we had a little bit more cash, yet these life-changing lottery prizes are just sitting with the National Lottery, waiting for the winners to come forward. There are no less than four lottery prizes expiring before Christmas, check the list below now, it could be you!
Nov. 27, 2010 jackpot is an est. $79,000,000 or $41,400,000 Cash Value. 11/24/2010 draw 8,20,21,32,37,Powerball: 4,Power Play: 3 had 687,547 total winners. One Match 5 for $200,000 in Illinois. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. (Gomer says hey)
Need something to look forward to at the weekend? Well last night’s National Lottery draw has provided just that with a rollover jackpot for Saturday night. Some fairly ordinary numbers have thrown up this extraordinary lottery result, which saw very few winners picking up big lower tier prizes, as the jackpot rolls over for Saturday night. That means on Saturday evening, there’ll be an estimated £7.6 million to play for, if you buy lottery tickets for the rollover draw.
It has been announced that the New Jersey Lottery breaks its own record in terms of ticket sales for the fiscal year 2010. The record $2.6 billion ticket sales come amidst one of the biggest global recessions in recent history. Despite this, lottery games worldwide have generally flourished and this is great news for lottery players all over the world. As the New Jersey Lottery turns 40 in December, there will be many reasons for this US state to celebrate this Christmas and we will expect them to do it in style.
11/23/2010 draw 2,6,12,34,35,Mega: 33,Megaplier: 4 had over 400,000 winning tickets with five Match 5s. Calif. winner will pocket $510,069; while the two Ohio, one Illinois and one Michigan players will get $250,000 each.
Often we hear stories about benefit claimants who continue to claim even after a lottery win, however this week a lotto winner has been jailed over failing to declare a massive scratchcard win. Rachael Ream, 27, mother of two children and her pal Tracey Hudson shared a £77,777 scratchcard win back in 2008, yet despite the win, Ms Ream failed to declare her winnings and continued to claim benefits.
The name Nigel Page is surely burned on the memories of many, a lesson perhaps in why anonymity is chosen by big lottery winners. Nigel and his partner Justine became the UK’s biggest lottery winners last year when they scooped a £56 million Euromillions jackpot. The record was beaten within weeks but not before every lottery news agency run a story about the couple. Well now Mr Page must share some of his lottery win with his ex wife, even though they separated years ago.
The world of lottery has never been more exciting than it is right now. The power of the internet now means that people can play almost any lottery game worldwide enabling them to play for some the biggest and best jackpots available. The company who run the UK National Lottery have revealed that the major world lottery operators are currently in talks and a global lottery mega draw is in the pipeline. The talks are only in the primary stages and should they be successful it will be at least a couple of years away.
An announcement from the National Lottery last week shows that the company who run the lottery, and the UK arm of the Euromillions Lottery have recorded record profits for the last six months. Dianne Thompson, new head of the National Lottery released a statement last week reporting £2.7 billion in total sales on the National Lottery and Euromillions Lottery in the six months to September 25th, up 3.6% on the same period last year.
Time and time again the team here at aLottery bring news of major lottery prizes going unclaimed. Many of us find it shocking that so many people can spend their money on lottery tickets, yet be so careless in either losing them of forgetting to check them. An unclaimed million pound National Lottery prize is the latest in a long line of major prizes still waiting for the winner to come forward and we are sure that it certainly won’t be the last.
11/20/2010 draw 10,12,38,53,57,Powerball: 1,Power Play: 5 had 619,744 total winning tickets with six Match 5s. One with Power Play in New Mexico wins a Million $. The other five win $200,000 in New Hampshire, New York, Indiana, Florida and Penn. Next Wed. jackpot is an est. $64 Million or $33.2 Million Cash Value.
11/19/2010 draw 7,14,31,51,54,Mega: 35,Megaplier: 2 had over 400,000 winning tickets with four Match 5s. Two in Georgia; one each in New York and Massachusetts. $250,000. Tuesday jackpot is an est. $34 Million or $22.3 Million Cash Option.
When the coalition came into power, it looked as though ambitious lottery funded projects such as the Stonehenge visitors centre may be curtailed but in a piece of lottery news released today it’s been announced that a lottery grant will hand over £10 million to the project. The lottery backing, now it’s definitely back on will take Stonehenge one step closer to its new £27 million visitors centre after huge doubt earlier this year.
As usual we’re at the end of an exciting weekend, with millions up for grabs in both the Euromillions Lottery and UK Lotto last night. While the Euromillions Lottery may not have thrown up any winners, creating a £38 million rollover for next weekend, the UK Lotto had one single winner, walking away with £3.9 million. If you haven’t checked your lottery tickets yet then take a look at our lottery results to see who the big winners of the weekend are!
Lottery players in the UK today have 25 million reasons to buy lottery tickets as the Euromillions Lottery rolled over last week. That means tonight’s Euromillions Lottery draw is worth an estimated £25 million, giving lottery players plenty to look forward to after last week’s Millionaire SuperRaffle. With the midweek National Lottery jackpot going to one single lottery player, this Euromillions rollover is just what UK lottery players need to brighten up the weekend.
Have you checked last night’s lottery results yet? If not then it’s time to match those six magical numbers as there was just one millionaire created on the midweek lotto. Just one lottery player matched all the winning numbers and collects £2.3 million from the National Lottery after last night’s draw. It’s not quite as high as some of the UK Lottery jackpots have been of late, but we’re sure it won’t be a disappointment to the winner who has become the UK’s newest lottery millionaire.
If you are a lottery player who is looking for a game that has some of the more favourable odds and offers a relatively larger jackpot then there are 14 million reasons to play the New York Lottery this week. The main state lottery game called New York Lotto has a massive $14.5 million jackpot up for grabs and with the next draw taking place for this game this evening, you can be sure that it will generate a lot of interest amongst players in the US.
11/17/2010 Draw 14,16,53,54,59,Powerball: 5,Power Play: 3 had 599,282 total winners. One Match 5 with Power Play in Arizona. Two others without in Oregon and Texas for $200,000 each. Sat. jackpot is an est. $50 Million or $26.6 Million Cash Value.
Mega Millions Draw 11/16/2010 1,26,27,39,46,Mega: 21,Megaplier: 3 had over 400,000 winning tickets. One Match with Megaplier for $1,000,000 in North Carolina. Ohio and Maryland had $250,000 Match 5 winners. Friday jackpot is an est. $25 Million or $16.3 Million Cash Option.
Despite many shout outs and appeals for the winner from many news sources, it seems the £1.1 million lottery jackpot from May is going to end up in the fund for good causes. For weeks we’ve been putting out appeals for the winner of the latest unclaimed lottery prize to step forward yet now, time is running out and there is just one week left for the lotto jackpot winner to step forward.
Ernie Passailaigue, the Arkansas Lottery director, has come under fire by the Legislative Audit Committee after they revealed they were unhappy with the way that he has dealt with some of the problems that have arisen since the Arkansas Lottery began last year. A variety of shortfalls have been highlighted by the Legislative Audit Committee, which resulted in one of the members telling the Arkansas Lottery director that if he had led any other state agency he would be gone under these kinds of circumstances.
With all thoughts on London 2012, sport has never been so fashionable in the UK and lottery investment will now mean that the sporting facilities and organisations created from the lottery good causes will keep sport alive in the UK long after the games have finished. Olympic chiefs will spend £135 million of lottery cash, after the London 2012 games have ended, to keep young people involved in sport in the UK.
Everyone knows it’s best to buy lottery tickets online. It’s safe and secures and the only way to guarantee you don’t end up on the unclaimed lottery prizes list. However, problems with the National Lottery online since yesterday morning means no one can buy lottery tickets online. If you can’t get on to buy tickets, don’t worry everyone is having the same problem, the trouble is the National Lottery are keeping tight-lipped so who knows when the website will be up and running.
11/13/2010 draw 17,30,48,51,54,Powerball: 29,Power Play: 5 had 583,553 total winning tickets with four Match 5s. South Carolina winner had Power Play for a $1,000,000 Prize. The other three in New Jersey, Florida and Deleware will receive $200,000 apiece. Wed. jackpot is an est. $35 Million or $18.6 Million Cash Value.
Usually on a Sunday morning, we concentrate on a breakdown of the Saturday night lottery results. However, due to technical issues with the National Lottery this morning, we’re unable to bring you a prize breakdown from last night’s draw. You can check the lottery results on our results page but today’s news is now about a winner who cheated death to win £4 million on the Saturday Lotto draw last weekend.
Over the years we have seen the variety of different lottery games increase rapidly and as a result this has made the lottery a much more exciting game to play. The Florida Lottery offers Lucky Lines as one of their fantastic new games, claiming that it plays like bingo but pays like the lottery it is sure to be a big winner with everyone. Those of you who enjoy the variety that comes with lottery games these days will certainly love Lucky Lines that comes from the Florida Lottery.
11/12/2010 draw 9,26,28,35,38,Mega: 10,Megaplier: 4 had over 450,000 winning tickets with ten Match 5s. Jackpot rises to $16 Million or $10.5 Million Cash Option for Nov. 16, 2010.
In today’s lottery news, last night’s Euromillions rolled over, but that doesn’t mean no winners. Thanks to the Euromilions birthday SuperRaffle, ten millionaires were still created. Even without the Millionaire Raffle prizes, a massive £8 million was paid out in lottery prizes, just to UK players from last night’s Euromillions draw. The jackpot reached £13.7 million, higher than expected thanks to the SuperRaffle but that jackpot will now roll over to next week’s draw.
It’s Friday and that’s always reason to celebrate, the weekend is upon us and that of course means the Euromillions Lottery and then National Lottery draws tomorrow evening. However, this week we have even more reason to get excited as the Euromillions SuperRaffle is drawn tonight. In the first-of-its-kind draw, the Millionaire Raffle prize has been multiplied by ten, so in addition to the Euromillions jackpot, there’s also £10 million in Millionaire Raffle prizes.
Despite the global recession, the world of lottery has largely weathered the storm very well. The announcement that the New Hampshire Lottery ticket sales drop may signal for some of the US state lotteries that all may not be as well as once thought. However, it has also been said that the states new 10% non deductable gambling tax cold have also played a part in the revenue decline for the New Hampshire Lottery.
Powerball draw 11/10/2010 5,8,11,40,44,Powerball: 10,Power Play: 4 had 589,141 total winners with one Power Play Match 5s and three without. Florida winner will receive a Million while Ohio, Arizona and Penn. winners will get $200,000. Sat. jackpot is an est. $25 Million or $13.5 Million Cash Value.
One ticket in Ohio matched 8,26,28,33,53,Mega: 11 and won the $25,000,000 Jackpot. Over 450,000 other winners with a Megaplier of 4. Friday jackpot returns to $12 Million.
A distinct lack of higher division winners meant big prizes in the Wednesday Lotto last night, for several lottery players. Every division paid out higher amounts than usual, as a lower than usual number of players managed to match numbers in the draw. For the numbers and winners details check out our National Lottery results page but we can tell you now that just one single lottery player matched all six numbers to scoop the jackpot.
A few months ago we heard rumours that a Euromillions winning family, originally from a council estate were to move to Emmerdale and shake-up the neighbourhood, buying a stately home. Although Emmerdale denied the storyline, we brought you the lottery news story about the rumour. However, today Emmerdale have confirmed a lottery win for the Dingle family, all to be played out in a DVD special.
Imagine finding a lottery ticket, matching all six numbers and then finding you are too late to claim your prize. That could happen in just a couple of weeks for one lottery player if they don’t step forward soon. On 29th May, the Lotto jackpot was shared three ways, with each lottery player collecting just over £1.1 million, however one of those winners still hasn’t stepped forward to claim the prize, which expires on November 25th.
A couple from Nova Scotia in Canada, who were Lotto 649 winners, give their fortune to charity without spending a single penny of it on themselves. Allen and Violet Large scooped an $11.2 million lottery jackpot back in July of this year but decided that their family and charities would be more worthy of their win, claiming that they simply didn’t need it. The couple live in an old house and have a comfortable lifestyle, but are happy with the life they lead and chose not to change it.
One Michigan ticket matched 7,12,23,34,38,Powerball: 33 sold at UPTOWN BOOK STORE #1, 16541 WOODWARD AVE, HIGHLAND PARK and will win $128,600,000. Power Play was 4. Wed. Nov. 10, 2010 jackpot returns to $20 Million.
It was an exciting weekend for British Lottery players, a Euromillions rollover on Friday evening and then a triple rollover Lotto draw on Saturday. However, it was Spain celebrating this week as one Spanish lottery player walked away with the entire Euromillions jackpot, a massive €29 million. UK players have fared very well in the Euromillions of late but this week it just wasn’t to be, but many congratulations to the single Spanish Lottery player who will no doubt now be celebrating.
After rolling over to almost £18 million, last night’s triple Lotto rollover had to be won. If there was no jackpot winner then the entire jackpot would have rolled down to the next division, but in the event four players matched all six winning numbers to share the triple lotto rollover jackpot. The triple rollover jackpot reached £17.7 million, giving each of the jackpot winners £4.4 million each.
11/5/2010 draw 19,25,34,46,53,Mega: 15, Megaplier: 4 had over 400,000 winning tickets with four Match 5s. Two in Texas and one in New York and California. Tuesday jackpot is an estimated $25 Million or $16.8 Million Cash Option.
In January, the National Lottery is launching a brand new game but you need to make the most of it, as it’s only going to be running for a few weeks. Lotto Plus 5 launches at the start of the new year and lottery organisers are hoping the Lotto Plus 5 will raise the remaining £200 million promised to the Olympic 2012 fund. The National Lottery has already raised £500 million for the games, via special games and the Dream Number but the Lotto Plus 5 will go a long way to raise the rest and give lottery players an exciting new draw to participate in.
It has been very exciting in the lottery world for the last few weeks and this seems to be a trend that is set to continue. We have seen some record breaking lottery jackpots offered and won all over the world recently, and it seems that as one is snatched away by a lucky winner there is another waiting in the sidelines offering another fantastic lottery jackpot prize. With the EuroMillions having now been won there will be much interest in the US PowerBall this weekend.
11/3/2010 draw 34,38,39,45,50,Powerball: 33,Power Play: 2 had 850,463 winning tickets with four $200,000 Match 5s and one $1,000,000 with Power Play in New York. Michigan and Florida joined two other New York Match 5s. Next jackpot $123 Million or $67 Million Cash Value.
Tonight it’s time for the Euromillions Lottery rollover, worth a massive £25 million if you don’t have your lottery tickets then today is your very last chance to buy them or you’ll miss out. However, the lottery news we’re excited about today centres around next weekend’s Euromillions draw as we’ve just heard there’s going to be a SuperRaffle to celebrate the first birthday of the Millionaire Raffle.
Did you have your lottery tickets for last night’s National Lottery double rollover last night? If so then a quick check of the lottery results will tell you that while you may not have won, no one else did either and that means it’s a triple rollover this Saturday! This Saturday’s Lotto jackpot is an estimated £18.1 million and it must be won! That’s right, due to rollover rules, this Saturday’s triple lotto rollover must be won, it cannot roll over again.
The big news in the world of lottery for many weeks has been the growing jackpot of the SuperEnalotto. For many weeks this jackpot has been watched as it continued to climb and pass its highest payout record of €147.8 million, leaving many of us wondering just how far this Italian lottery would go this time round. We can now tell you that the €177.7 million SuperEnalotto jackpot has been won by a syndicate on Saturday, although very few other details are available to us at this time.
11/2/2010 draw 1,3,12,16,54,Mega: 46,Megaplier: 2 had a little over 400,000 winners with six Match 5s. Two in Calif. and New Jersey. One each in Texas and New York. New jackpot $16 Million or $10.8 Million Cash Option.
It’s Wednesday and that means it’s Lotto double rollover day! Have you bought your lottery tickets yet for the estimated £10.9 million jackpot? How many lottery tickets have you bought, one, or maybe two to increase your chances in the draw? Maybe it’s time to think about putting together a lottery syndicate to give yourself and your friends or family an even better chance at lottery jackpots such as this one.
Almost every single week there seems to be some kind on news in the lottery world which shows just how lucky the Brits are when it comes to lottery jackpots. Not only have we just seen a UK player scoop a massive EuroMillions jackpot to become the nation’s biggest single lottery winner but now there is another UK National Lottery Double Rollover in the space of less than two weeks meaning there is going to be another big winner in the UK very soon.
It seems that every month there are unclaimed lottery prizes going to charity as players misplace lottery tickets. Despite recommendations to play the lotto online, many players still buy lottery tickets in store and lottery tickets keep getting lost. There are two lottery winners to lose out this month if they don’t step forward, one runs out in just a couple of days and the other, later in the month is a life-changing Lotto jackpot!
At the end of last week, the National Lottery announced that the Olympic fund, from National Lottery good causes has reached £550 million and is right on track for the £750 million. Lottery players, in the UK through lottery ticket sales, have raised this staggering amount of cash and the sales of dedicated Olympic scratchcards and instant wins have also helped the total along.
