Friday, May 31, 2013

12 Ways to Spend £1 Million UK Millionaire Raffle Winnings: Month by Month Calendar

EuroMillions UK is offering an extra special Millionaire Raffle this Friday, May 31st that will see one very lucky winner have 12 instalments of £1 Million arrive in their bank accounts throughout one life- changing year! This got us thinking how we would spend each million, knowing we were guaranteed to have a total of £12 million to play with.

According to the UK Office of National Statistics, the average person in the UK will have earned £1.2 million before tax working up to age 65. The winner of this Friday's EuroMillions UK Millionaires Raffle will therefore receive 10 times the average lifetime income of their fellow UK residents at least 40 times as quickly and without paying a single penny in taxes! What would you do with a £1 million paycheque from the UK National Lottery every month for a year? See our suggestions for how to spend your first year as a EuroMillions UK millionaire!

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June – Celebration Time – Come On!

The first thing we would do is throw one gigantic P-A-R-T-Y with all our favourite things. And why not?!  Yes, savings, yes, investments, yes, prudence but we know we've got eleven more of these massive paycheques so it's time to treat our friends, family and in the process ourselves!

 

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Brilliant British Benevolence – 12 Months of Millions

Record breaking jackpots are the surefire way to catch the attention of lottery fans around the world. Next in line are big prize funds, super draws and the guaranteed creation of millionaires. As May turns into June, the EuroMillions UK Millionaire Raffle is set to continue a year that has included all of these lotto treats in a decidedly British fashion!

When it comes to Europe's premier lottery, the UK takes a slightly different approach to that of its continental multi-state lottery partners. For example, the €100 million EuroMillions Super Draw that has been announced for Friday, 7th June 2013, is being referred to in the UK as a Mega Jackpot, and the estimated guaranteed top prize is advertised as being worth £80 million.

In truth, these changes are but superficial idiosyncrasies of language and for a distinction of real substance one must look to the EuroMillions UK Millionaire Raffle, the twice weekly twist that guarantees a British smile whatever the weather or Euro lottery results!

Since theLotter launched its EuroMillions UK Millionaire Raffle service on 20th June 2012, the UK National Lottery has come up with some extra special ways to spread joy come rain or shine, and there's another one just around the corner. First, we travel back to last summer, when EuroMillions UK set an outstanding record of Olympic proportions.

27th July 2012 – Millionaire Making Marathon

In case one failed to notice, London hosted the 30th Olympic Games last summer. An eye catching opening ceremony saw MI-6 super spy James Bond (the Daniel Craig version) escort HRH Queen Elizabeth II (the real version) by helicopter to the Olympic Stadium. Later the same night, the EuroMillions UK Millionaire Raffle created [...]

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

USA Lotteries – Head to Head and Looking Forward

After a couple of momentous months for the world’s two biggest regular lottos, here’s a special infograph celebrating USA lottery giants Mega Millions and the US Powerball. In our head to head below America’s Mega Millions, which boasts the $656 million world record, is sporting blue, and  the $590.5 million jackpot US Powerball lottery is represented in red.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

US Powerball New Personal Best!

The US Powerball has stormed past its own jackpot record leaving two very important questions. Will it beat Mega Millions’ March 2012 $656 million world record and will its $600 million plus top prize be won tonight? Get your Powerball tickets online now with theLotter and you may be sitting on cloud nine tomorrow morning!

Throughout April and into May 2013, the US Powerball and America’s Mega Millions have been way ahead of the lottery pack, each offering massive 9-figure jackpots for several weeks in a row! Mega Millions’ $190 million jackpot was won on Friday by extremely lucky winners in New Jersey and Virginia, but the US Powerball has continued growing since Wednesday’s $360 million top prize went without a winner, moving from $475 million, to $550 million and now to an incredible $600 million as a slew of ticket sales have been taken into account!

theLotter has been tracking the progress of each of these American lottery giants to see what kind of magical May mayhem they would create – as lotto fans around the world have vied for a piece of these delicious American pies it’s been exciting to say the least.

Check out the latest version of our Record-Making Rollovers infograph and make sure to get your $600 million US Powerball tickets on theLotter tonight to be part of this record-breaking draw!

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$600 Million US Powerball in News and Reviews

How big does a jackpot have to grow to catch mass media attention? Apparently $360 million is enough, as the US Powerball top prize became the latest hot topic to set major news and social media outlets buzzing with excitement. As there were no winners on Wednesday night, the popular American lottery announced a $475 million minimum jackpot that is now a $600 million minimum jackpot for this Saturday's draw. Get your ticket online today to avoid missing out!

You don't have to be a lottery expert to know that $600 million is a life-changing lottery prize! After taking off from a starting sum of $40 million and rolling over a total of thirteen times, each unclaimed jackpot since April 3rd has added at least $10 million to the next US Powerball draw—and now the top prize is even growing between draws!

The estimated jackpot for this Saturday's Powerball draw now stands at $600 million and some quick calculations will reveal that the intra-draw increases have themselves been growing! In fact, the most recent jump was worth more than Friday’s Mega Millions $190 million jackpot – $115 million before ticket sales were taken into account and a total of $240 million by current estimates. This enormous leap comes close on the heels of $90 million and $48 million increases in the prize pool between earlier Powerball draws.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Your Powerball Lottery Ticket Explained

With an estimated US Powerball jackpot of $350 million for this Wednesday's draw, lottery fans from around the world are making sure they get their tickets in time. As we're in the calm before the money storm, let's take a second to look at what the US Powerball has been up to lately and what you can expect to see on your Powerball lottery ticket.

The last 18 months have been pretty special for the US Powerball lottery. In January 2012, Powerball officials announced some major changes, including the introduction of a new $40 million starting jackpot aimed at bringing the American lottery its first $500 million top prize and a $1 billion jackpot by 2022. Eleven months later, the first part of this prophecy came true with a $588 million US Powerball jackpot that was shared by winners from Arizona and Missouri in November 2012.

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In 2013, barely a week has passed without the US Powerball holding the top spot on theBig list of the world's biggest lotto jackpots. The famous US lottery awarded a $217 million prize to Virginia couple Dave and Nancy Honeywell on February 6th, and followed this up with a 12-rollover run that granted a huge $338 million jackpot to Pedro Quezada of Passaic, New Jersey, in the draw held on March 23rd.

The month of March came to a close with a relatively quiet $50 million prize and all eyes began to focus on California's imminent arrival onto the Powerball scene. As the most populous state in the US, everyone knew there would be big jackpots, although some doubted ho [...]

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Loteria Nacional Extraordinario!

This Saturday, May 11th is bringing yet another fantastic raffle! This got us thinking about how other Loteria Nacional draws compared. Check it out!

The next Loteria Nacional draw is right around the corner! The May Special Raffle takes place on Saturday, May 11th, with €84 million in total prizes and a premio especial of €5 million, players around the world will be competing for a share. There is also another Special Raffle on June 8th boasting €84 million in cash giveaways  as well as a raffle on July 6th, which will feature €140 million in prizes!

Take a look at this infograph comparing the last 5 draws as well as the upcoming draw in June!

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Record-Making Rollovers in World’s Biggest Lotteries

Mega Millions and the US Powerball are way ahead of the lottery pack, each with massive 9-figure jackpot offerings! They are both but a few rollovers away from creating some magical May mayhem, as lotto fans vie for a piece of these delicious American pies.

Check out our Record-Making Rollovers infograph to see how close these US lotteries are to hitting new personal bests, and be sure to get your $126 million Mega Millions tickets and your $191 million US Powerball tickets on theLotter this weekend! 

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Jackpot Jumping: American and Australian Lotteries Top theBig List

US Powerball and US Mega Millions are leading theBig in the first two spots while the Australian Powerball is closing in at the #3 slot. If these heavy-hitting lotteries jump again, how high will they go?

The high jump was one of the first sports included in modern Olympic Games when they began in 1896, and Americans excelled in high jump right out the door! Americans won the first eight Olympic high jump championships, and it turns out that this propensity for the high jump carries over into American lotteries as well! American Powerball and Mega Millions compete each week for the top ranking on theBig list, leap frogging one over the other with millions of dollars in play.

The Powerball lottery, which is now at a colossal US$ 191 million jackpot, has not seen a winner for the whole of April. The lotto's last prize jump was a stunning US$ 26 million, rising from US$ 165 million after no winner was made on Wednesday to its current jackpot of US$ 191 million for the Saturday night draw – a generous jump worth a small fortune.

Mega Millions' last leap catapulted the jackpot to a staggering $126 million! After Tuesday’s draw failed to make a jackpot winner, Mega Millions' $114 million top prize leapt $12 million (about 8,253.92 oz in gold) into an even bigger prize! This world record holding lotto is comparable to Jessie Williams, the American high jump Olympian and current Indoor Championship record holder. [...]

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Weekend Lotto Action

With 15 lotteries being drawn this weekend, there are a lot of numbers to be picked and jackpots to be won. Use this handy infographic so that you can choose the best way to take home a prize!

From Australia to South Africa, there are tons of lotteries being drawn this weekend. Looking for the biggest jackpots in the world? No problem, Powerball and Mega Millions are atop theBig list this weekend with top prizes that are beyond $100 million! Are you searching for the lotteries with the best cost-benefit ratio? South Africa Powerball and Brazil – Dupla Sena lotteries are sitting comfortably in the first spots on theSmart list this weekend.

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Records: Fun to Make, Fun to Break

Records are made to be broken! Record-makers and breakers aren't just for the lottery world-take a look at the world records we dug up when thinking about South Africa Lotto's record-breaking R 57 million jackpot that has earned the Southern hemisphere's star lotto a #1 spot on theSmart!

As the National Lottery of South Africa continues to navigate uncharted jackpot territory, lotto fans are eagerly anticipating the R 57 million draw (US $6,154,290) scheduled for Wednesday, April 24th.  The last time the South African Lotto soared this high was over a decade ago when a player claimed a whopping R 44.7 million, or US $4,826,259, in February of 2003. This lotto's ground breaking record jackpot is quite a milestone for the 13 year old lottery game!

Lotto fans can't mention records without mentioning Mega Millions in the same breath! The American Mega Millions lottery reached unprecedented heights in March of last year with a "megaton" of winnings and a US $656 million top prize. This colossal lottery prize raised the bar for lottery jackpot records across the globe and the final sum was split between three players from Kansas, Illinois, and Maryland.

Last year was also a milestone year for US Powerball, as a 14 roll-over phenomenon shook the lotto world, creating a massive $588 million prize! By breaking its jackpot record, Powerball moved towards its goal of achieving a $1 billion jackpot with this $500+ million prize; mission half-way accomplished!

Once we started thinking about lottery records, other records followed.  Have you ever wondered what the world record is for the biggest mouth? What about how much you would have to pay for the world's most expensive Christ mas tree? Check out some of these bizarre and fun world-records below!

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Freedom to Live, to Choose, to Buy!

There are many ways to become rich in this world and freedom distinguishes the lottery from the crowd. Most people who play the lottery do so for the reward, the big jackpot and the potential of becoming rich enough to truly be free – free to buy, free to choose, and free to live.

The world's two biggest lottery jackpots, the US Mega Millions and Powerball, are currently worth $83 million and $80 million respectively. They are once again on a steady march to offering 9-figure top prizes; the sort of jackpots that will provide the lucky lottery winners with a sense of financial freedom and security that your 'run-of-the-mill' millionaire cannot quite boast.

It may not guarantee happiness, but as the Roman orator, philosopher and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero, explained more than two thousand years ago:

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Today, we are largely afforded the basic freedoms of speech, of movement and of assembly, yet the freedom to do exactly as we please eludes the majority of us, and is most often limited by our financial means.

How many everyday scenarios can you think of, where having a little extra cash would make your life easier or more enjoyable? The new shoes you want to buy, the family holiday you want to book, the gorgeous house you want to move into; and we all think, if only I had that extra hundred, or thousand, or million available, I would be able to… [...]

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Mega Millions Magic Moment Memories

The first lottery to break the half a billion dollar mark with an incredible $656 million top prize last year, Mega Millions has created many magic moments along the way and since. Join us as we take a look at the reactions of some of its biggest jackpot winners and the local lotto organisations who get to share the good news!

The US Mega Millions is known for smashing records and in March 2012 it took things to a whole new level. Five years earlier, to the month, Mega Millions overtook the then world record jackpot of $365 million - held by fellow American lottery US Powerball – with a whopping $390 million jackpot that proved to have an exceptionally long shelf life.

Perhaps it was Powerball officials' January 2012 announcement of a new $40 million starting jackpot as well as their ambition of offering the first jackpot worth more than $500 million that again kicked Mega Millions, and an army of fans, into gear for some magnificent March madness. The result was a new world record from the reigning lotto champion, with a not insignificant $266 million increase to $656 million!

So how do you think the winners reacted?

In Maryland, three friends and colleagues in the public education sector shared the excitement of winning a $218.6 million share of the March 30th record jackpot. Referring to themselves as 'The Three Amigos', one winner said:

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iPad Lottery App – NEW from theLotter!!!

Use your iPad to win yourself a lottery fortune with the introduction of theLotter's NEW iPad App! Join us as we take a look at Apple's iProduct revolution and we'll tell you how you can win the world's most popular tablet computer.

It seems like forever since Apple rocked the world with the first iPod back in 2001. With its mechanical scroll wheel and 1,000-song capacity, the music player became an instant attraction for techies and music-lovers alike. At the time, there were two types of people – those who owned an iPod (showing off the now infamous white in-ear headphones) and those who wanted an iPod (sporting green faces full of envy).

If the original iPod was a phenomenon, the first iPhone had to be exceptional to compete with a relatively established mobile phone market. Launched in 2007, the iPhone combined a sleek shell, a large touchscreen display and smooth functionality to become an instant hit! A year later, the App Store opened and Apple had left its mobile competitors wondering where to go.

After the iPhone, Apple's loyal fans eagerly anticipated 'Apple's Tablet', and in 2010, the iPad was finally born. More than 300,000 were sold on the first day, and 3 million iPads had been bought within just 80 days!

We are now up to the fourth generation iPad and the App Store offers more than 800,000 Apps, but for lottery fans, Apple's amazing story and millions of dollars of investment have led up to one very special moment: the launch of theLotter's NEW iPad App!

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Happy Birthday, EuroJackpot!

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 its top prize at a €10 million minimum with a €90 million cap. Today, the EuroJackpot is speeding towards its cap with Friday's jackpot worth €34 million –talk about growing up well!

As EuroJackpot prepares to blow out its single-candle cake, the lottery is celebrating its eight rollovers and an all-time jackpot high. Since it was created, EuroJackpot draws have had the potential to turn players into millionaires overnight, making more than 70 million players €300 million richer since last March. What kind of birthday cake could you cook up with all that dough?

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What Would You Do with $320 Million?

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 to do something fun for the weekend, you check the Powerball numbers and find out that you have just won the lottery! Not only did you just win a huge prize, you won a big, fat 12-rollover Powerball jackpot! Your  five numbers as well as your Powerball matched the lucky digits. The world is literally your oyster, and you have the freedom to do anything. The question is what would you want to do with this Saturday’s $320 million USA Powerball jackpot? The next Powerball draw is quickly approaching this Saturday, March 23rd. With yet another roll over, the jackpot has snowballed into a colossal sum.

With the draw just around the corner, lottery fans are thinking about all the possibilities $320 million could bring!

Since Powerball’s record breaking $587.5 million jackpot, this US lottery has captured the attention of players around the world. In Europe, this Saturday’s prize translates to roughly €247,180,596 million. In China, it is approximately 1,863,874,996 Yuan. For Japanese players, $320 million is a staggering 28,733,980,805 Yen! $320 million adds up to a nice chunk of change no matter where you are playing from!< [...]

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EuroMillions Super Draw: the Superman of the Lottery World

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 #1 lottery.

Although lotteries may not make frequent appearances on the pages of comic books or action-packed movies, lotteries and superheroes have more in common than one might think. Like winning the lottery, superheroes excite people, capture imaginations, and rescue us from the monotony of day-to-day life. With the EuroMillions €100 million super draw coming up, the European lotto is donning its super hero garb. EuroMillions is the Superman of the lottery world basking in international recognition, a wide-spread fan base, and the source of inspiration to people who watch the superhero scale buildings – or prize ladders! EuroMillions draws on the power of nine participating countries creating mega jackpots that sweep the planet.  Super draws can catapult a mid-range jackpot into a nine digit figure, rolling over faster than a speeding bullet and packing more punch than a powerful locomotive. EuroMillions' amazing feats have been dazzling lottery fans across the world with ! prizes that include a €185 million jackpot in July of 2011, August's record breaking €190 million jackpot win and last week's Portuguese €51 million milestone win. The upcoming EuroMillions mega prize comes on the heels of last week's quadruple roll over jackpot of €51 million. If not winners are produced for this week's jackpots, the roll over trend will continue and could [...]

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