It's time for EuroJackpot to blow out the candle on the cake! EuroJackpot was born a little over a year ago and now boasts a 'big kid' jackpot of €34 million! Europe's third multi-national lotto held its inaugural draw on Friday, March 23rd, 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. An ambitious lottery from the start, Eurojackpot set [...]
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After several rollovers all eyes were on the Powerball draw on Saturday night as the top prize on offer to win was worth an impressive $338.3 million. All players were in this draw were hoping to match the five main numbers plus the Powerball drawn to become the latest jackpot winners in this lottery and this was the case of one lucky ticket holder. The results from Saturday’s draw reveal that the $338 million Powerball jackpot was won by a US shopkeeper.
The Lotto jackpot has been won five times so far this month and now the ticket holders from one of these wins have come forward. Two friends, who are Henry Milne and Joe McKay, won the Lotto jackpot together from the draw which took place on the 16th March. In this draw there was a £6 million jackpot on offer to win but as they were one of five tickets that all matched the six numbers drawn the top prize was split meaning that Henry and Joe took home the prize of £1.2 million.
As the Lotto jackpot had been won twice in a row players on Saturday night were hoping that they could match the six main numbers drawn to become the third jackpot winners in a row in this lottery. The results show this was the case as the £3.6 million Lotto jackpot was won by two tickets which means that these two tickets split the top prize and each took home just over £1.8 million.
Easter is now just a week away however before we all starting eating copious amounts of chocolate there are some exciting lottery draws taking place this weekend. The weekend lottery draws lined up for this weekend include the Lotto which has a Saturday top prize on offer to win, the Irish Lottery which has a rollover jackpot available and not to forget before the weekend even begins there is an exciting jackpot available for all players to win in the EuroMillions tonight.
Spring is here, and this weekend’s jackpots are heating up with the rising temperatures! Check out this Saturday’s USA Powerball draw now worth a massive $320 million and start contemplating the possibility of life as a multi-millionaire! Imagine this: you wake up on Sunday morning and you go through your usual routine. After getting ready [...]
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Excitement is brewing across North America as the Powerball jackpot swells to an impressive $260 million after rolling over since 6th February 2013, when it was last won by a ticketholder from Virginia. Players will undoubtedly be on the edge of their seats tonight as those numbers are called, as if the jackpot rolls tonight again it will easily surpass the $300 million figure – and then things will get really interesting!
All EuroMillions players will be excited for Friday’s draw as there is a draw taking place in which there is an impressive jackpot on offer to win. The special EuroMillions Superdraw will take place this Friday and this draw is expected to see an increase in ticket sales as there is a guaranteed jackpot available to win. The top prize this Friday is a guaranteed €100 million, which will come out at roughly £80 million, so if you fancy winning this prize before the weekend begins make sure you have your tickets ready.
Saturday’s Lotto draw had a rollover jackpot on offer to win that came out at just over £6 million so players were hoping that luck would be on their side so that they would become the next jackpot winners in this lottery. This was in fact the case as the results from this draw show that a total of five tickets all matched the six numbers drawn to all scoop Saturday’s Lotto jackpot, meaning that each ticket took home just over £1.2 million.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the EuroMillions Super Draw! The EuroMillions Super Draw is just around the corner on March 22nd, offering a guaranteed €100 million. As the draw date of the first most EuroMillions super draw this year nears, we take a look at what makes superheroes a natural analogy for Europe's [...]
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Winning the lottery doesn’t happen to players every day and winning the lottery twice is an even taller ask, however a lottery player has beaten the odds and has won the lottery twice. The player is question is George Traykov and in the space of just two years he has accumulated £1,160,873 by becoming a winner in the EuroMillions – so what is the secret to his lottery luck?
The Powerball jackpot has been quietly rolling over since it was last won on Wednesday 6th February 2013 by lucky Virginia couple Dave and Nancy Honeywell, and now has reached an exciting $183 million in time for the draw which takes place later tonight. The Powerball certainly seems to be on a rollover mission – and let’s just hope the mission is to take the jackpot over $200 million, like it did for the Honeywell’s in February!
Unclaimed prizes are becoming more and more frequent as players are either forgetting to check their tickets or they end up losing them. Currently the list of prizes waiting to be claimed by the various winners is huge and now there are two unclaimed Lotto prizes which are set to expire this month if the winning ticket holders don’t come forward before they expire and are added to the pot that funds Good Causes throughout the UK.
Saturday’s Lotto draw attracted attention from players as there was a rollover jackpot on offer to win so players were all crossing their fingers and hoping that they would match the six numbers drawn. This worked for two players as the results from this draw show that two Lotto tickets both matched the numbers drawn to both scoop Saturday’s rollover jackpot that was worth just over £6.1 million. However, these weren’t the only winners on Saturday night as over half a million players walked away with a prize – were you one of them?
The weekend is almost here which means that we are close to the second Lotto draw of the week taking place. This draw is set to be exciting as there is a rollover jackpot on offer to win, so players will all be crossing their fingers and hoping to match the six numbers drawn. The Saturday Lotto rollover jackpot available to win is estimated at £6.1 million but will any players be lucky enough to win this first rollover top prize of March 2013?
The state of California has been whipped up into a lottery frenzy this month, as the state lotto jackpot continues to roll over and the countdown to Powerball starts. The California Super Lotto Plus has been rolling over now since it was last won just before Christmas in 2012, and its jackpot tonight has reached a massive $33 million, the biggest seen in the state lottery for several years. This has added to the excitement of the state joining the Powerball on 8th April 2013.
The National Lottery mobile casino has been available to play for a while and now this mobile casino just got even more exciting. This is because the National Lottery Mobile Casino has launched some new slots games that give players the chance to win even more prizes. The new slots games are War Zone, Way of the Slot and most recently Samurai vs Zombies** – so let’s take a look at these games.
All eyes were on the Irish Lottery on Saturday night as there was a rollover jackpot on offer to win so many players were hoping to strike lucky and land themselves with this big jackpot. This was the case for one lucky ticket holder as the results show that one ticket purchased in Dublin matched the six numbers drawn to win the Irish Lottery jackpot that was worth just over €6.4 million. However, this wasn’t the only winner there were over 44,000 players that managed to scoop a prize on Saturday night.
In our last blog, we put Spanish Raffle Lotteries under the microscope, zooming in to dissect a typical Loteria Nacional Extra ticket. This week we're zooming out to look at the bigger picture, and asking what is the difference between a raffle and a lottery? 'Lottery' by definition Various definitions exist to describe what [...]
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The 1st March 2013 was an important date in the diary for the Australian Powerball as it meant that this popular lottery underwent some alterations. This now means that the Australian Powerball changes have now come into effect and the first draw with these new changes will be on the 7th March 2013 – but what exactly are these new changes?
The winners of the UK Lotto jackpot of £6,299,421 on Saturday 23rd February 2013 have come forward and gone public with their win in a press conference today. Robin and Christine Kiddie, both 60 and married with four children from Ludlow in Shropshire, are the first big lottery winners from the town since Adam Griffiths won the £250,000 Thunderball in 2006. For more details regarding the couple, including how they picked those all-important winning numbers, read on!
