THE EuroMillions draw returned yesterday with another balance-busting jackpot that could change your life FOREVER.
Friday's EuroMillions numbers were 13, 18, 38, 42 and 45.
And the Lucky Stars were 07 and 11.
Mwanwhile, yesterday's Thunderball numbers were 02, 08, 18, 37, and 38, plus the Thunderball which was 08.
Please gamble responsibly. And when the fun stops, stop.
Read our EuroMillions live blog below for the latest updates…
- Joseph Gamp
This is what REALLY happens when you win the lotto
Senior lottery advisor Andy Carter spills the beans.
Day one – Your details then get passed on to Andy, who will then call you back to figure out the logistics.
They will check your personal details, such as verifying your identity and your bank account details to get paid your winnings.Two days later – Once you’ve had a little time to think about how you will manage your winnings Andy will pay you a home visit.
His team will triple check all your paperwork, making sure your ticket’s real and verify you are the person who bought the winning ticket.
Afterwards, Andy will send the winning funds to whichever bank account you choose and the money will arrive in your account within two working days.Follow-up programme – The logistics of receiving your money is “just the start” of the long journey for Lottery winners. Two-or-so weeks after the millions have landed in your account, Andy sets up some meetings with legal and financial advisers to help you through.
But on top of this continuous support, the National Lottery believes it is incredibly important to support winners with their mental health. Winners are also provided with a life coach to help them with the big decisions.Read the article in full here.
- Joseph Gamp
‘Life would be so much easier if I hadn’t won’
Jane Park was just 17 when she bagged £1million in prize money after buying her first ever ticket, making her Britain’s youngest EuroMillions winner.
At the time of her win, she was an admin temp earning £8-an-hour, and was living in a two-bedroom Edinburgh council flat she shared with her mum Linda.
Jane is an avid football fan and supports Scottish Premier League side Hibernian.
She has previously remarked that being a millionaire is stressful.
Speaking to the Sunday People, she said: “I have material things but apart from that my life is empty. What is my purpose in life?”
“I thought it would make [my life] ten times better but it’s made it ten times worse.
“I wish I had no money most days.
“I say to myself, ‘My life would be so much easier if I hadn’t won.’”
- Joseph Gamp
National Lottery: Weekly timetable
Below is a handy timetable for all UK lottery games including Lotto, EuroMillions and Set For Life.
There is a draw 6 nights a week.
There is no draw tonight, but the Set For Life returns tomorrow at 8:00pm.
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The first man ever to win twice in the same draw
Derek and Dawn Ladner, from Redruth, Cornwall, were thrilled when the same six numbers they used every week finally came up in the midweek lottery draw.
They initially claimed £479,142 from the £2,395,710 jackpot due to bagging the top prize with five other winners.
However, a week later Derek, then 57, was in for quite the shock when he found a second lottery ticket in his pocket.
It was from that same winning draw and thanks to his forgetfulness – when he bet twice with the same lucky numbers – their winnings increased to £958,284.
- Joseph Gamp
Top scratchcard to get
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
A blessing in disguise
Martyn and Kay Tott got the shock of their lives when they realised they’d won £3million back in 2001 – six months after buying the ticket.
By the time they saw an appeal for the winner to come forward, they couldn’t find the ticket.
After 45 agonising days of deliberating, Camelot told the devastated couple that they weren’t going to receive the cash.
“Having that money taken away was torture,” Martyn told the Mail on Sunday.
“For a long time I lost sight of who I was and what I believed in. But I can honestly say I’m glad I didn’t get the £3million now.
“There is no guarantee it would have brought me happiness.”
- Joseph Gamp
‘I won £1m on the lottery at 22 and still shop at Asda & Primark’
Roofer Jamie Heavens, then-22-year-old, went to work at his dad Mark’s roofing company in Dorset, near where he lives, and started his hands-on job.
After being sent off to work on another site, he stopped off at Romsey Services off the M27 for fuel and also bought a scratchard.
“I scratched it off in a layby and was stunned when it revealed I’d won £1m,” he said.
He kept it quiet from his colleagues – telling only his uncle and wife-to-be.
However, despite winning big, Jamie said: “Danielle still buys me jogging bottoms from Primark. I go out and graft everyday so she knows I will get them filthy. There’s no point in her getting me really smart ones, they would just get wrecked.”
Wife Danielle is still working as a receptionist at a garage whereas Jamie set up his own company, a roadside recovery service.
Read the article in full here.
- Joseph Gamp
EuroMIllions numbers REVEALED
Tonight's EuroMillions numbers are: 13, 18, 38, 42 and 45.
And the Lucky Stars are 07 and 11.
- Joseph Gamp
Thunderball numbers REVEALED
Tonight's winning numbers are 02, 08, 18 ,37 and 38.
The Thunderball itself is 08.
Are you a winner?
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Thunderball in 15 minute time
Thunderball is back in 15 minutes time.
The 8pm draw will see BRits playing for a huge £500,000 jackpot.
EuroMillions will take place shortly after at 8.15pm
- Joseph Gamp
How much has been raised this week alone?
A grand total of £10,787,717 has been raised by players this week.
Since 1994 when the National Lottery was set up, players like you have helped raise more than £45BNBillion for good causes.
That’s everything from heritage sites like Stonehenge to grassroots organisations working to end loneliness and isolation.
During 2021, more than 660,000 individual grants were made to good causes across the UK – the equivalent of around 235 in every UK postcode district.
2021 was also an extraordinary year for National Lottery winners. A total of 360 players joined the exclusive millionaires club last year – that’s nearly 1 new millionaire every single day.
- Joseph Gamp
A blessing in disguise
Martyn and Kay Tott got the shock of their lives when they realised they’d won £3million back in 2001 – six months after buying the ticket.
By the time they saw an appeal for the winner to come forward, they couldn’t find the ticket.
After 45 agonising days of deliberating, Camelot told the devastated couple that they weren’t going to receive the cash.
“Having that money taken away was torture,” Martyn told the Mail on Sunday.
“For a long time I lost sight of who I was and what I believed in. But I can honestly say I’m glad I didn’t get the £3million now.
“There is no guarantee it would have brought me happiness.”
- Joseph Gamp
Top scratchcard to get
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
Tips to get lucky numbers
Avoid repeats – Another top tip is to ensure you are always choosing numbers that weren’t drawn last week.
While it might seem 3 is a lucky number, just because it appeared in the previous draw, it doesn’t mean it will again next time.
Odds and evens – According to expert analysis, all-odd and all-even line-ups are drawn less than three per cent of the time.
As there are seven gaps to fill, this means it is best to pick three odd and two even, or two odd and three even.
One of these patterns will occur in 68 per cent of EuroMillions draws.
Shun same last digits – Similarly to odds and evens, it’s good to mix things up when it comes to the second digit of your numbers.
Even if seven might be your lucky number, think twice about choosing 7, 17, 27, 37 and 47.
Almost 90 per cent of draws have no more than one repeated last digit.
And your chances of winning with four same final digits drop to less than two tenths of one per cent.
- Joseph Gamp
Top tips for playing the lottery
Have you ever wondered the secrets to winning big in the lottery? Is it pure luck or is there a system to it…?
- Avoid computer picks. It lowers your odds of winning.
- On scratchcards, try buying 10 of one ticket instead of several different tickets.
- Mix up your numbers.
- Even it out – Don’t pick all odd or all even numbers.
- Split from the crowd, so don’t play patterns.
- Apparently, you should avoid anniversaries, birthday’s and dates.
- Avoid playing winning numbers that have been drawn before, because every combination has a chance of coming up once every half a million drawings.
- Joseph Gamp
‘Gold digger’
ONE of Britain’s biggest EuroMillions winners has won a bid to gag his former mistress after she wrote a book about their holiday romance.
Gareth Bull, 50, was married to wife Catherine when he scooped almost £41million in 2012.
But Gareth has now won a battle for a restraining order against his lover that bans her from bringing legal action against him, the Mirror reports.
She claimed she had a right to publicly speak out on their tryst to defend allegations she was a “gold digger”.
Read more here.
- Joseph Gamp
Man won £250,000 on Lottery scratchcard – then conned his own mum
A MAN who won £250,000 on a lottery scratchcard later conned his OAP mum out of tens of thousands of pounds.
Barry Perryman, 41, won the six-figure sum with his parents seven years ago.
But within months he was abusing his role as his mother’s carer to transfer money from her bank account, a court heard in June this year.
Perryman, who arrived at court in a wheelchair with his leg in plaster, admitted a four-year long fraud when he appeared at Plymouth Crown Court.
He was in a syndicate with dad Roy and mum Christine Perryman when they won £250,000 on a scratchcard bought from a Londis store in Keyham, Devon in September 2014.
The defendant bought the winning ticket, matching four numbers on a Winning 7s card.
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£1m scratchcard winner went back to work
Winning £1m was sheer luck for Jamie Heavens, who purchased a Millionaire Riches Scratchcard after watching a customer in front of him do it.
After leaving the petrol station, he pulled into a layby to scratch it off and was gobsmacked when he won.
However, hardworking Jamie, from Bournemouth, had no intention of quitting his day job.
Jamie told the Mirror: “It was 7.30 in the morning and I still had a day’s shift ahead… I won a million pounds and earned another £100 for my shift.”
After that the roofer and his fiance Danielle spent £25,000 on a lavish wedding with “a band, a videographer and a massive marquee”.
He bought a business but feels rather happy about his new job, adding: “I still work but now I’m my own boss!”
- Joseph Gamp
National Lottery weekly timetable
Here’s a timetable for all UK lottery games including Lotto, EuroMillions and Set For Life.
There is a draw six nights a week.
It should be noted that there are no draws on Sundays.
- Joseph Gamp
Top tips for playing the lottery
Have you ever wondered the secrets to winning big in the lottery? Is it pure luck or is there a system to it…?
- Avoid computer picks. It lowers your odds of winning.
- On scratchcards, try buying 10 of one ticket instead of several different tickets.
- Mix up your numbers.
- Even it out – Don’t pick all odd or all even numbers.
- Split from the crowd, so don’t play patterns.
- Apparently, you should avoid anniversaries, birthday’s and dates.
- Avoid playing winning numbers that have been drawn before, because every combination has a chance of coming up once every half a million drawings.
- Joseph Gamp
How much has been raised this week alone?
A grand total of £10,787,717 has been raised by players this week.
Since 1994 when the National Lottery was set up, players like you have helped raise more than £45BNBillion for good causes.
That’s everything from heritage sites like Stonehenge to grassroots organisations working to end loneliness and isolation.
During 2021, more than 660,000 individual grants were made to good causes across the UK – the equivalent of around 235 in every UK postcode district.
2021 was also an extraordinary year for National Lottery winners. A total of 360 players joined the exclusive millionaires club last year – that’s nearly 1 new millionaire every single day.
- Joseph Gamp
Tips to get lucky numbers
Avoid repeats – Another top tip is to ensure you are always choosing numbers that weren’t drawn last week.
While it might seem 3 is a lucky number, just because it appeared in the previous draw, it doesn’t mean it will again next time.
Odds and evens – According to expert analysis, all-odd and all-even line-ups are drawn less than three per cent of the time.
As there are seven gaps to fill, this means it is best to pick three odd and two even, or two odd and three even.
One of these patterns will occur in 68 per cent of EuroMillions draws.
Shun same last digits – Similarly to odds and evens, it’s good to mix things up when it comes to the second digit of your numbers.
Even if seven might be your lucky number, think twice about choosing 7, 17, 27, 37 and 47.
Almost 90 per cent of draws have no more than one repeated last digit.
And your chances of winning with four same final digits drop to less than two tenths of one per cent.
- Joseph Gamp
I was scammed by a $70m lottery jackpot scheme
Christine Lauzon actually won $70million in the lottery back in October, however, a Facebook page under her name promised to send out money to people in need.
An investigation into the situation resulted in the British Columbia Lottery Corporation reaching out to Lauzon, who confirmed that the account using her name and photo was fake.
A post on the fake page claimed that they had “voluntarily decided to help people financially,”
One woman in Fiji responded to the post asking for $1,000 to fix her roof. She asked to not be identified to protect her privacy.
“When there’s heavy rain, the water always enters the house. Like half the house it enters inside,” the woman said.
The scammer offered to send the woman $100,000 if she sent $300 in Bitcoin first. The potential victim was attempting to raise the money when she was contacted by CTV News, who told her that it was a scam.
“I was really happy because nobody has ever offered me that amount of money before,” she said, saying the thought of receiving that much money would be life-changing.
- 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.
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