Lottery Winners News

The California State Lottery is looking to the UK National Lottery organiser for advice on how to grow its ticket sales. The National Lottery organiser in the UK will serve as a consultant to its Californian counterparts, and it could well decide to extend the same consultancy service to other lottery organisations around the world.

An Aqua lottery scratchcard win has made Peter Hayward of Newbridge £250,000 richer. Peter is 36 and works as a carpenter, and he had bought the Aqua lottery scratchcard from a local shop when buying his lunch. Initially he had asked for a different card, but the shopkeeper couldn’t get to it, so Peter opted for the Aqua one instead.

Lottery luck made Liverpool lottery player Tommy Roberts £2,390,831 million richer on Saturday 13 June, 2009. Tommy, who is 38 and works as an underwriter, matched all six main numbers in the Lotto draw to win a half share of the jackpot, which was worth £4,781,662. The other half was won by an equally lucky syndicate of social workers in Bedfordshire.

The Big Lottery Fund is providing a big break for carers of disabled children thanks to its Reaching Communities initiative. £5.25 million will be shared between eighteen projects that help ‘some of the most vulnerable and socially excluded people across England.’ The Shared Care Network is one of those projects, and it has been given £379,128 to give carers of disabled children a short respite break from their responsibilities.

A EuroMillions player in the UK matched all five main numbers and both Lucky Stars to win the triple rollover jackpot on Friday 12 June, 2009. Another lottery player in Ireland achieved the same thing, so the £50 million jackpot will be shared to make each lucky ticket-holder £24,951,269 richer!

It’s a EuroMillions triple rollover jackpot this Friday 12 June, 2009, and that means you could win a whopping £50 million if you are lucky enough to get the right lottery results. Whilst we’re disappointed that nobody won the EuroMillions jackpot last week, the triple rollover jackpot gives you even more to play for, so if your numbers come up it could actually be a good thing!

A EuroMillions double rollover has given all National Lottery players the prospect of landing a massive jackpot prize just in time for the summer! Two EuroMillions jackpots have rolled over in the last fortnight, creating a tantalising jackpot of £37 million for the draw this Friday 5 June, 2009.

A new lottery study has been commissioned by the National Lottery Commission to find out how many under-age people play the lottery. The study, which will be conducted by Ipsos MORI, will focus on a survey of 9,000 minors aged 12 to 15, and the findings will be published in the Summer of 2009.

A Florida scratchcard millionaire was made when a Florida Lottery player won a top prize of $1 million in the $600 Million High Roller game. The $600 Million High Roller scratchcard was launched by the Florida Lottery on 21 January, 2008, and boasts $600,000,000 in cash prizes, including twenty top prizes of $1 million and more than 2,000 prizes worth $20,000.

Update: We can confirm that a 25 year old woman from Majorca in Spain has come forward to claim her €126 million EuroMillions jackpot. The woman didn’t find out about her record-breaking win for three days because she was ill in bed with the flu.