National Lottery UK latest: Players urged to check Saturday Lotto results with Set For Life draw on Monday
THE Set For Life draw is back tomorrow night as Lotto players have been urged to check their tickets as a huge £4.1million still up for grabs.
The whopping prize remains unclaimed after the ticket was bought for last Saturday's draw.
Meanwhile, the Set For Life can be played on Monday night as Brits have a chance to win £10,000 a month for the next 30 years.
So, what are you waiting for? Go play…
Always remember to play responsibly. And when the fun stops, stop.
Read our EuroMillions live blog below for the latest updates…
- Milica Cosic
‘Our life fell apart’.
Dave and Angela Dawes, 53, cashed in their prize in 2011, buying Tom Jones’ former home for £4m in East Sussex, as Britain’s seventh biggest winners.
Speaking at the time of their win the couple, who had only played twice before, said that they were going to have the wedding of their dreams.
Angela enjoyed a new engagement ring, and the couple planned to to buy properties in London and abroad and were looking forward to a trip to Las Vegas and a skiing holiday in Switzerland.
But the couple’s fortunes have dramatically changes in the ten years since their win, with court battles and dramatic home raids turning the tide.
Initially they splurged £4.5million on a flat in Fulham, West London just ten minutes from Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium for football mad Mr Dawes, 57.
The couple then swapped London life for village bliss in East Sussex, and enjoyed a quiet life spending their millions.
But then Dave’s son Michael also took his dad and stepmother to court after they refused to stop coughing up for him to lunch at the Ritz.
- Milica Cosic
Unexpected fortunes
An Australian man unknowingly won the lottery a month ago and has finally come forward to claim his £2.4million prize.
The ticket holder collected his winnings on Thursday after striking lucky in the Set for Life jackpot that was drawn on October 9.
He will now be paid £11,000 a month for the next 20 years.
Because his entry was unregistered, Lotto officials weren’t able to find or contact the man about his winnings and had to wait until he came forward.
The lucky winner said he had his entry ticket tucked inside his wallet the entire time.
- Milica Cosic
Limitless
Roger Griffiths and his wife Lara netted £1.8million on the National Lottery in 2005. He had worked as an IT manager and she as a performing arts teacher but both quit their jobs.
The couple enjoyed the high life and went on a lavish spending spree splashing £800,000 on a barn conversion in Wetherby, West Yorks., along with flash cars and five-star holidays in Dubai, New York and Monaco.
Wannabe rock star Roger also spent £25,000 making a record with his old band from Lancaster University. The couple invested in property and a beauty salon but the financial crash saw the value of their portfolio plummet.
And on New Year’s Eve 2010, the couple’s home went up in flames – a disaster which was made worse by the house being underinsured. By 2013 the money had gone and the couple had split up, each blaming each other for the reversal in their fortunes.
Roger said: “When you’re told you’re a millionaire, it feels limitless. We had played the Lottery for years – when I found out I’d won, it was overwhelming.”
- Milica Cosic
Location, location, location
Lottery data shows the areas with the cities and towns with the highest number per capita of high-tier winners to scoop £50,000 or more on the National Lottery.
The National Lottery has now made over 6,100 millionaires in the UK.
Data taken from the launch of the lottery in 1994 until Sept 2019 reveals the luckiest regions.
Here they are.
- Milica Cosic
How to play Set For Life?
Draws are held on Monday and Thursday evenings.
To play Set For Life, you are required to pick five numbers from 1 to 47 and one Life Ball from 1 to 10.
You can buy Set For Life tickets online every day from 6am until 11pm. But remember, to play on a draw day, you’ll need to buy your ticket before 7.30pm.
- Milica Cosic
Explained: What draw is on tomorrow?
Tomorrow, the Set for Life draw will take place, meaning you could be in with the chance of winning £10,000 a month for the next 30 years.
That's if you play your numbers right though…
The draw will take place today at 8:00pm on Monday night.
- Milica Cosic
Tips to help you win the Lotto
- Avoid anniversaries, birthday’s and dates.
- Don’t pick all odd or all even numbers.
- Avoid computer picks. It lowers your odds of winning.
- On scratchcards try buying 10 of one ticket instead of several different tickets.
- Mix it up – Never play all one-number groups.
- Don’t play patterns.
- Don’t Copycat – Avoid playing winning numbers that have been drawn before, because every combination has a chance of coming up once every half a million drawings.
- Milica Cosic
Crazy way to spend winnings
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.
- Milica Cosic
Lucky numbers for 2021 lottery
Astrologers have suggested that there are specific numbers that could be worth playing if you want to win the lottery.
They are 1, 4, 2, and 7.
Also, those numbers that add up to these like 10, 11, and 22 can be your lucky numbers in 2021.
- Louis Allwood
How will The National Lottery celebrate their success?
To celebrate the 636,000 projects The National Lottery have supported over the past 27 years, four word-based installations – Build, Dreams, Create, Change – are being unveiled across London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Antrim.
Famous faces Alexandra Burke, Sir Chris Hoy, Nadine Coyle and Liam Reardon will be revealing the artworks which have each been created using 636 National Lottery balls by arts collective Greyworld and inspired by funded projects.
- Louis Allwood
Sport societies receive huge funding from the National Lottery
Around £30 million is raised every week by National Lottery players for good causes – so even if you don’t win some of the country’s most vulnerable do.
Here are some of the organisations they work with:
- Arts Council England
- Sport England
- BFI
- UK Sport
- Arts Council Of Wales
- Sport Wales
- Arts Council Of Northern Ireland
It could be you
Last night’s Lotto draw took place giving punters the opportunity to get their hands on a whopping £4.1 million.
According to the Lotto website there is one winning ticket for the jackpot.
It is not known whether the winner has come forward so players should get checking their tickets now.
The lucky numbers that could help you win
Astrologers have suggested that there are specific numbers that could be worth playing if you want to win the lottery.
They are 1, 4, 2, and 7.
Also, those numbers that add up to these like 10, 11, and 22 can be your lucky numbers in 2021.
Lotto tips to help win
- Avoid computer picks. It lowers your odds of winning.
- On scratchcards try buying 10 of one ticket instead of several different tickets.
- Mix it up – Never play all one-number groups.
- Don’t pick all odd or all even numbers.
- Don’t play patterns.
- Avoid anniversaries, birthday’s and dates.
- Don’t Copycat – Avoid playing winning numbers that have been drawn before, because every combination has a chance of coming up once every half a million drawings.
One man's loss is another man's gain
The UK’s biggest unclaimed win was from June 2012, when a Euromillions prize worth £63.8 million.
The prize money was never picked up by its unfortunate owner.
The ticket was bought in the Stevenage or Hitchin areas of Hertfordshire but, after the allowed time period to claim expired, the money was instead distributed among charitable causes.
- Louis Allwood
Numbers to stay away from
These are the numbers are the ones drawn the LEAST:
1st – 50, drawn just 22 times
2nd – 53, drawn just 23 times
3rd – 26, drawn just 24 times
=3rd – 48, drawn just 24 times
=3rd – 51, drawn just 24 times
4th – 57, drawn just 25 times
- Louis Allwood
Gifts for the girls (continued)
Sarah, who said she “loved” her surgically enhanced chest, also went back to university so that her mum could have a “picture of me graduating”.
Eight years after winning the lottery she decided to quit her job as a social worker and pursue modelling opportunities, where she’s found ultimate happiness.
“Up until now there’s no bad part of being a millionaire – I’ve loved every minute,” Sarah added.
- Louis Allwood
Gifts for the girls
Sarah Cockings from Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear won a whopping £3million in April 2005 when she was just 21.
She claimed to “live a very normal life” despite her vast fortune, and after the money dropped in her account she treated her siblings Emma and Alex to matching boob jobs.
“Just after I won, I bought my two sisters boob jobs but now I’ve had one myself, because mine were wrecked by breastfeeding,” she told the Daily Mail in 2019.
- Louis Allwood
A very British celebration
While most lottery winners would be tempted to splash out on fancy Champagne, Anne Canavan had very different plans.
The mum, from Northern Ireland, couldn’t believe her luck and felt fate had intervened after her £1million EuroMillions win in 2015.
On the day she picked the winning numbers, Anne joked with a neighbour that it was “about time someone from around here won”.
Normally she “always waited a week” before checking her lottery ticket but that night things were different.
“At 1am, I suddenly had the urge to check the results so I switched my laptop on, when I realised I’d won I woke my daughter up,” she recalled.
“It took half an hour to convince her that I wasn’t joking, and after that we stayed up all night with cups of tea planning what to do with the money.”
Anne went on to spend £50,000 renovating her four-bedroom house and funnelled other funds into inventions – including self-sealing gift pouches.
- Louis Allwood
How to play Set For Life?
To play Set For Life, you are required to pick five numbers from 1 to 47 and one Life Ball from 1 to 10.
Draws are held on Monday and Thursday evenings.
You can buy Set For Life tickets online every day from 6am until 11pm. But remember, to play on a draw day, you’ll need to buy your ticket before 7.30pm.
- Louis Allwood
What draws are on tonight?
As always there are no National Lottery draws on a Sunday.
The next draw will take place tomorrow at 8:00pm and that will be the Set for Life draw.
- Louis Allwood
Fancy a career change?
For many, winning the jackpot means early retirement however Susan Hardman had other ideas.
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.
- Louis Allwood
Get checking
Last night's Lotto draw took place giving punters the opportunity to get their hands on a whopping £4.1 million.
According to the Lotto website there is one winning ticket for the jackpot.
It is not known whether the winner has come forward so players should get checking their tickets now.
- Milica Cosic
Money won't bring happiness
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.”
- Milica Cosic
National Lottery Scratchcard odds revealed
STRIKING it rich with a scratchcard might seem like a fantasy – with most punters pocketing a couple of quid, if anything.
But some actually put you in pretty good stead of bagging the top prize.
Read more here.
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