EuroMillions results LIVE – Massive £25M lottery jackpot TONIGHT, plus last night's Set For Life winning numbers
TONIGHT'S EuroMillions draw could see one lucky person win £25M.
The winning numbers for last night's Set For Life draw were: 2, 3, 4, 12, 29
And, the Life Ball was: 8
Don't forget to play the EuroMillions draw this evening, and you could be in with the chance of being a few pounds richer.
Just imagine what that money could buy you…
Read our EuroMillions live blog for the latest updates…
- Milica Cosic
What draw is on tonight?
Tonight is the EuroMillions draw, where one lucky person could be in with the chance of winning £25M.
In order to play, you must pick five numbers from 1-50 and two Lucky Stars from 1-12, or try a Lucky Dip for randomly selected numbers.
You can choose to play on a Tuesday or Friday – or both days.
The results for the draw will be revealed around 8.30pm, so follow our blog for the latest updates.
- Milica Cosic
Players urged to check tickets
National Lottery players have been urged to check their tickets NOW.
Last night's £10k-a-month Set For Life ticket has gone unclaimed… and it very well could be you.
So what are you waiting for? Get checking…
- Milica Cosic
How old do I need to be to play?
Those feeling lucky now have to be over 18 to play, as the minimum age goes up from 16 to 18.
That means it is illegal for any retailer to sell these goods to anyone under the age of 18 – and will apply to favourite games like Lotto and the EuroMillions.
Online sales of lottery tickets and scratchcards have already been banned – this came into force in April this year.
The new age restriction, which was exclusively revealed by The Sun, aims to make sure the lottery is not a “gateway to problem gambling”, minister for sport, tourism and heritage Nigel Huddleston previously said.
Gambling is illegal for under-18s, but until now anyone 16 or over has been able to play National Lottery games.
- Milica Cosic
What is EuroMillions and how to play?
EuroMillions was launched on February 7, 2004, by lotteries in France, Spain and the UK – with the first draw being held in Paris six days later.
In October of that year, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland joined.
Draws are held every Tuesday and Friday evening, with them all taking place in Paris at 8.45pm local time – 7.45pm in the UK.
You will choose five main numbers and then two lucky stars (numbers), with prizes ranging from around £2.50 up to the jackpot.
The prize values vary depending on ticket sales and the number of winners in each prize tier.
- Joseph Gamp
What's happened to past EuroMillions winners?
Winners Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, who took home more than £148m in 2012.
Adrian, who has now split from Gillian, splurged £2.5million on two mansions in February 2020.
An anonymous UK ticket-holder claimed the £123million jackpot in June 2019.
Another anonymous UK ticket-holder won £121.3m in April 2018.
And Frances and Patrick Connolly, from County Armagh in Northern Ireland, won the £114.9m prize in January 2019.
An anonymous ticket-holder won £113m in October 2010.
Neil Trotter, from Coulsdon, South London, won £107.9m in March 2014
Dave and Angela Dawes, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, won £101m in October 2011.
Ade Goodchild, from Hereford, banked £71m in March 2019.
An anonymous ticket-holder bagged £35.2m in April 2019.
- Joseph Gamp
Odds of winning the Millionaire Maker?
According to the EuroMillions website, there is a 1 in 1,900,000 chance that a player could win the Millionaire Maker game on a Tuesday.
This shrinks to 1 in approximately 2,250,000 if there is a rollover – meaning no one has won the previous draw's jackpot.
On a Friday, it's estimated that there is a 1 in 2,950,000 chance of winning a guaranteed £1million.
If there is a quadruple rollover, the odds could fall to 1 in 3,400,000.
Winning the game depends on the number of payslips sold so the odds fluctuate from game-to-game.
The odds can also change if there is a special event.
In March 2019, EuroMillions created 40 UK millionaires in a one-off special draw.
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What is UK Millionaire Maker in EuroMillions draw?
For every EuroMillions line played, players automatically receive a UK Millionaire Maker code printed on their ticket.
The draw guarantees one lucky player will win a sum of £1million.
A code consists of four letters and five numbers.
It's then entered into a raffle and selected at random.
There used to be two guaranteed millionaire raffle winners per EuroMillions draw, but this was reverted to one in January 2019.
- Joseph Gamp
What happens to the EuroMillions money if no one claims it?
If no UK players come forward within 180 days then the prize money, plus all the interest it has generated while it is held in trust, goes to National Lottery-funded projects across the UK.
The National Lottery have said: "Our players change the lives of individuals as well as communities by raising, on average, over £33 million for National Lottery-funded projects every week."
- Joseph Gamp
Where does money raised by the Lottery go?
In the year ending 31 March 2021, the funds were shared as follows:
- Health, education, environment and charitable causes – 40%
- Sport – 20%
- Arts – 20%
- Heritage – 20%
- Joseph Gamp
Some star signs are luckier than others
Well, according to the stars some signs are luckier than others, so read on and see if you should pop out and buy that winning lotto ticket. It could be you!
Leo – Oh, Leo we knew you’d be one of the lucky ones. You always look good, have a string of admirers and just tend to always be prowling on the bright side of the street.
Virgo – It’s no coincidence that planner extraordinaire is one of the luckiest signs of the zodiac. Virgos only become successful because they put in the hours and werk, girl.
Scorpio – Magnanimous Scorpio has definitely got it going on when it comes to luck. They’ll often find themselves in the right place at the right time as if by magic, much to the annoyance of some less fortunate souls.
- Joseph Gamp
The unexpected win
Like many people who play the lottery, Patrick and Frances Connolly “always hoped” they would win but didn’t have high hopes.
But two years ago, on New Year’s Day, they scooped £114,969,775 on the EuroMillions after playing every week for years.
When the couple, from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, found out about the “life-changing” sum, they modestly celebrated with “a cup of tea and a hug”.
They told ITV: “I always hoped we would win the lottery one day, but when we did, it would be just our luck that lots of others would win on the same day with the same numbers too.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would ever win almost £115 million.”
- Joseph Gamp
‘I sill shop in Primark despite winning £1.8m’
A NATIONAL Lottery winning dinner lady still lives in her council house, shops in Primark and drives a Kia despite bagging £1.8million.
Trish Emson, 51, explained money or her millionaire status did not change her or her partner Graham Norton, also 51, who still works as a decorator.
The down-to-earth pair have even managed to keep their teenage son Benjamin, 17, in check – and don’t even give him pocket money.
The modest mum, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said: “Being rich doesn’t make you posh or a better person.
“I don’t like showing off and bragging about money and I can’t be posh anyway.
“To look at me you wouldn’t think I was a millionaire, but if I have to dress up I feel fake, I prefer my jeans,” she told The Mirror.
Read the article in full here.
- Joseph Gamp
Your chances of unlikely events
Experts reveal chances of unlikely events – from death by shark to winning lottery.
Number - crunching experts at cardchat.com have worked out the likelihood of some very unlikely events.
- 1000 – 1 = Seeing a shooting star.
- 37,500 in 1 = Being bitten by a snake.
- 3,700,000 in 1 = Being killed by a shark.
- 1,000,000,000,000 in 1 = Meeting your doppelganger.
- 45,000,000 in 1 = Winning the lottery.
- 500-1 = Being born with an extra toe.
Read the article in full here.
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.
How many times can a EuroMillions jackpot rollover?
The original rules of EuroMillions allowed the jackpot to roll 11 times before the Must Be Won draw.
New rules introduced in 2016, stated that the top prize would stay at its cap for four draws before having to be won in the next draw.
- Joseph Gamp
Explained: Is EuroMillions prize money capped?
The maximum jackpot prize is capped at €200 million – before conversion – and can alter depending on which country the winner lives in and the value of their currency.
In the UK, the winner's prize would be capped around £181.5million.
- Joseph Gamp
Some Lottery winners haven’t told ANYONE about their money
The man who looks after lottery winners says he has advised some people who have never told a single soul, and that he will “never know” himself how it feels to win big.
Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery, has seen “all sorts” of reactions in his 15 years dealing with lucky ticketholders.
“I’ve seen people be sick with excitement, I’ve seen people resign their job on the spot, I’ve seen people jumping up and down, I’ve known husbands who haven’t told wives and wives who haven’t told husbands, I’ve been to homes where there’s literally a party going on already,” he told the PA news agency.
- Joseph Gamp
Callie rogers campaigning to raise legal age limit
Callie is now campaigning for the government to raise the age limit for the National Lottery.
Gambling is now more popular among children than skateboarding and campaigners believe an age limit of 16 entices young people into a habit of betting.
Callie feels she was too young to cope with the pressure and wants to stop other kids going through the same problems she faced.
She told the Mirror: "You are only a 16, with all that responsibility. At that age, you can get the best advice ever. But you are not in a position to listen. I was too young.
"I suffer from such bad anxiety when I am going to meet new people. It preys on my mind, what a new partner’s family will think of me, or even new friends.
"I still get abuse just because of who I am.”
- Joseph Gamp
When did Callie Rogers win the Lottery and how much did she win?
Callie won just under £1.9million in 2003.
Callie forked out £11,500 on two boob jobs, £300,000 on clothes, make-up and tattoos, £85,000 on top-of-the-range sports cars, and a quarter of a million pounds on cocaine.
Callie spent a further £250,000 on holidays to locations including Mexico and EuroDisney, £118,000 on gifts to former boyfriends, £190,000 in un-returned loans to friends and family members, and £50,500 on solicitors' fees.
Callie says she believes she was too young to bag such a huge sum – leaving her with nothing but trouble.
She added: “It was too much money for someone so young. Even if you say your life won’t change, it does and often not for the better.”
Callie insists she is much happier now she lives a "normal" life.
She said: “The pressure to splash out and live a glam party life has gone – and I prefer it.”
- Joseph Gamp
Who is Britain's youngest ever Lottery winner?
Callie Rogers is Britain's youngest ever Lottery winner.
Callie was just 16 years old, and living in foster care, when she won the Lotto jackpot.
The Cumbria lass immediately quit her £3.60-an-hour job as a Co-op checkout girl, and started splashing the cash.
- Joseph Gamp
Saturday's Lotto jackpot now £7.3M
SATURDAY'S National Lottery draw will be an estimated £7.3million after no ticket scooped the top prize on Wednesday.
No one got all six main numbers, although two players matched five plus the bonus to take £1million each, Camelot said.
The winning Lotto numbers were 23, 27, 29, 37, 43 and 47 and the bonus number was 11.
The winning numbers in the Thunderball draw were 12, 21, 32, 33 and 38.
The Thunderball number was 5.
While no one scooped the £500,000 top prize, one winner matched five numbers to bag £5,000.
- Joseph Gamp
Team GB star CJ Ujah stripped of National Lottery funding over failed drug test
CJ UJAH has been stripped of domestic athletics funding following his Olympics drugs violation.
The sprinter is suspended from the sport after testing positive for banned substances at the Tokyo Games in August.
The case has gone to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the GB team that won 4x100m relay silver behind Italy could be stripped of their medals.
That would mean heartache for Ujah’s Tokyo team-mates Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.
Londoner Ujah, 27, was on Olympic Relays funding – between £21,000 and £28,000 – over the past 12 months.
He insists he is not a cheat and denies any wrongdoing.
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Biggest lotto winners in history
- £1.308 billion (Powerball) on January 13 2016 in the US, for which three winning tickets were sold, remains history’s biggest lottery prize
- £1.267 billion (Mega Million) a winner from South Carolina took their time to come forward to claim their prize in March 2019 not long before the April deadline
- £633.76 million (Powerball draw) from a winner from Wisconsin
- £625.76 million (Powerball) Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts claimed the jackpot in August 2017
- £575.53 million (Powerball) A lucky pair of winners scooped the jackpot in Iowa and New York in October 2018
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Tale of $10million lotto winner fatally injected with painkillers by husband
A LOTTERY winner was killed by her doctor husband who injected her with painkillers after he accused her of squandering the cash.
Joseph Roncaioli, 72, was found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife Ibi who won $10 million she split with her friend.
Prosecutors told his trial he may have been have been upset his wife squandered the couple’s fortune leaving them with little money for retirement, the Toronto Star reported.
Passing sentence, the trial judge said his crime “more resembles a murder than an accidental killing”.
“It was intentional, not spontaneous,” said Justice Jane Ferguson.
Hungarian-born Ibi and her friend won $10 million on the lottery in Canada back in 1991 and the pair split the winnings.
Her husband’s trial heard that she gave away $2 million on a son whose existence was a secret from her other two boys.
- Joseph Gamp
Explained: 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.
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