National Lottery results UK latest: Lotto’s Set For Life returns TODAY with chance of wining £10k a month for 30 YEARS
BRITS missed out on the chance of scooping a HUGE £15m after Saturday's Lotto draw saw no jackpot winner.
Saturday's Lotto numbers were 19, 32, 44, 45, 52, 53 and the Bonus ball was 12.
And the Thunderball draw results that day were 13, 7, 17, 19 and 35, with a Thunderball of 11.
Meanwhile, Brits will again have a chance to play Set For Life on Monday. ]
The top prize? A life changing £10,000 every month for the next 30 years.
You can buy Lotto 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.
Read our National Lottery live blog below for the latest updates...
Star sign most likely to pick winning numbers
The moment we’ve all been waiting for. Which sign is most likely to win the lottery? Well, it’s good news if you’re born in February or March.
According to research from Lott and MailOnline, dreamy Pisces is the luckiest sign of the zodiac when it comes to winning the lottery.
The data, which was based on those winning the top lottery jackpot, found that 11.6% of the winners were Pisces – meaning, on average, they were more likely to pick the golden ticket.
Go-with the-flow Pisces will stumble upon extraordinarily lucky breaks and often find themselves effortlessly attracting most things on their wish list.
So, Pisces, if you’re reading this maybe you should get down to the shops and buy a lottery ticket.
WHAT NUMBERS DO MOST PEOPLE CHOOSE?
A lot of people doing the EuroMillions pick a lucky dip to get their numbers.
Lottoland advises that people should avoid popular numbers, like 1-31, as people tend to opt for their birth date.
This means if these numbers come up more people will have them and the winning amount will be divided between more people.
They also suggest avoidance of a sequence of numbers.
LOTTERY CHANCES: SOME STAR SIGNS ARE LUCKIER THAN OTHERS
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
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Donna previously revealed how Gareth, who told her he was separated, splurged on taking her to glitzy events and luxury holidays.
She claimed he told her their relationship had to be kept secret as he didn't want to give his wife ammunition if they were to divorce.
But Catherine spotted the pair on TV at an Anthony Joshua fight in 2017 and they separated later that year.
Donna later said she felt "wounded" when the relationship ended and Gareth stopped talking to her.
She was previously slapped with an injunction banning her from spilling the beans in her memoir.
ONE OF UK'S BIGGEST EUROMILLIONS WINNERS TAKES OUT RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST EX-MISTRESS
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.
Read more here.
EXPLAINED: WHAT HAPPENS TO EUROMILLIONS PRIZE 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.”
EXPLAINED: WHAT IS SET FOR LIFE?
The Set For Life draw runs on Mondays and Thursdays and one lucky Brit could win £10,000 every month for the next 30 years.
Players have to pick five numbers from 1-47 plus one Life Ball number from 1-10 or go with a Lucky Dip to get a randomly generated number.
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.
The winning numbers go out at 8pm and can be found on the National Lottery website or their YouTube channel.
WHAT IS TONIGHT'S DRAW?
The next game to play in will be the Set For Life draw on Monday evening.
Taking place at 8pm, it will see Brits play for the chance to win £10k a month for the next 30 years.
Tuesday will see Thunderball take place at 8pm, shortly followed by EuroMillions at 8.45pm – with a stonking jackpot of £42m up for grabs.
TOP TEN ODDS FOR EASIEST LOTTERIES TO WIN AROUND THE WORLD
- FranceLoto – odds 1:5.99
- Swedish Lottery – odds 1:7
- Oz Lotto – odds 1:8
- Polish Mini Lotto – odds 1:8.5
- UK National Lottery – odds 1:9.3
- Spanish Lotto – odds 1:10
- Austria Lotto – odds 1:12
- Irish Lotto – odds 1:13
- Mega Millions Lottery – odds 1:24
- Powerball Lotto – odds 1:24.87
NATIONAL LOTTERY BALL NUMBER 27 IS MOST LIKELY TO HELP PUNTERS WIN A JACKPOT
National Lottery ball number 27 is the most likely to help punters win a jackpot, researchers say.
It has made more appearances than any other in 3,071 draws in the past ten years.
The number came up 399 times in the UK National Lottery, Thunderball, EuroMillions and Irish Lotto.
That is 141 more times than number 57, the unluckiest number, which was drawn just 258 times.
The second luckiest is 54, which appeared 387 times. It was followed by 29, 42, 52 and 58 in joint third on 381 times.
The next luckiest was number 20 with 378. Then came 23, with 372.
THE SCHOOL DINNER LADY WHO VOWED TO CARRY ON WORKING AFTER £1MILLION MOTHER’S DAY LOTTERY WIN
Karen Dakin, 53, won in the draw hours before Mother’s Day, with numbers based on the birth of her son Callum, 14.
She said: “My son has, in some strange way, helped give me the most amazing Mother’s Day gift of all time!”
She added: “I’ve always picked numbers special to me, including my son Callum’s date of birth – the year and the time – so I instantly recognised the winning numbers.
“What an amazing turn of events.”
Read more here.
GRAN ESCAPES JAIL AFTER STEALING £33,000 OF LOTTO SCRATCHCARDS FROM CORNER SHOP
A gran stole £33,000 worth of Lotto scratchcards from a corner shop while working behind the till, a court heard today.
Trusted shop assistant Sheila Hancock, 60, took thousands of cards from the display without paying for them.
And if she saw it was a winning card after scratching off the silver foil she took the prize money out of the till, it was said.
Puzzled owner Virajkumar Patel couldn’t understand why his busy store wasn’t making a profit despite staying open throughout the pandemic.
So he checked CCTV and was horrified when he saw Hancock repeatedly helping herself to cards and winnings. York crown court heard she had become addicted to the “easy” gambling and got away with the deceit from January 2020 until April of this year.
WHAT IS A ROLL DOWN AND WHAT IS WEDNESDAY’S LOTTO JACKPOT?
Whenever there’s a Lotto Must Be Won draw and no one wins the jackpot by matching 6 main numbers, there’s a Rolldown.
This means the jackpot is shared across other prize tiers where players match 2 or more main numbers, so thousands can expect to win a boosted cash prize.
After no one scooped Saturday’s top prize of £15m, the jackpot is now £2m.
But if the top prize is missed, the roll over process will begin.
THE 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
WHAT IS A ROLL DOWN AND HOW MUCH IS WEDNESDAY’S LOTTO JACKPOT?
Whenever there’s a Lotto Must Be Won draw and no one wins the jackpot by matching 6 main numbers, there’s a Rolldown.
This means the jackpot is shared across other prize tiers where players match 2 or more main numbers, so thousands can expect to win a boosted cash prize.
After no one scooped Saturday’s top prize of £15m, the jackpot is now £2m.
But if the top prize is missed, the roll over process will b
WHEN IS THE NEXT DRAW?
The next game to play in will be the Set For Life draw on Monday evening.
Taking place at 8pm, it will see Brits play for the chance to win £10k a month for the next 30 years.
Tuesday will see Thunderball take place at 8pm, shortly followed by EuroMillions at 8.45pm – with a stonking jackpot of £42m up for grabs.
TOP TEN ODDS FOR EASIEST LOTTERIES TO WIN AROUND THE WORLD
FranceLoto – odds 1:5.99
Swedish Lottery – odds 1:7
Oz Lotto – odds 1:8
Polish Mini Lotto – odds 1:8.5
UK National Lottery – odds 1:9.3
Spanish Lotto – odds 1:10
Austria Lotto – odds 1:12
Irish Lotto – odds 1:13
Mega Millions Lottery – odds 1:24
Powerball Lotto – odds 1:24.87
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WHAT IF
Euromillions winner Adrian Bayford is “consumed with guilt” as his son fights for life after a horror quad bike smash, friends say.
The lad, 13, was hit by a car driven by his sister, 15, in the sprawling grounds of their Cambridgeshire mansion.
The Sun exclusively revealed details of the horror smash as the boy is fighting for his life in intensive care with his family at his bedside.
His sister raised the alarm after her brother was flung from his machine and through a fence.
It is understood the car and quad bike were gifts bought for the kids by former postie Adrian, 49.
THE UNLUCKIEST LOTTERY WINNERS OF ALL TIME WHO MISSED OUT ON MILLIONS BECAUSE OF LOST TICKETS AND PAYMENT PROBLEMS
That was the case for one young couple this week who missed out on the £182million Euromillions jackpot – when they realised their winning ticket payment hadn’t gone through.
Rachel Kennedy, 19, and Liam McCrohan, 21, from Hertfordshire were “absolutely heartbroken” when they realised their usual numbers had come up, but they had won nothing.
The couple, both students, had played the winning numbers of 6, 12, 22, 29, 33, 6 and 11 for five weeks in a row before all seven digits appeared in Friday’s draw.
Rachel’s account was set up to automatically buy a Euromillions ticket with her usual numbers but because her account did not have the right funds, the ticket payment did not go through.
“I called the number thinking that I had won £182million and they said ‘yeah you’ve got the right numbers but you didn’t have the funds in your account for the payment of the ticket so it didn’t actually go through’,” Rachel said.
EXPLAINED: WHAT IS SET FOR LIFE?
The Set For Life draw runs on Mondays and Thursdays and one lucky Brit could win £10,000 every month for the next 30 years.
Players have to pick five numbers from 1-47 plus one Life Ball number from 1-10 or go with a Lucky Dip to get a randomly generated number.
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.
The winning numbers go out at 8pm and can be found on the National Lottery website or their YouTube channel.
‘I’M GLAD I DIDN’T GET THE £3M’
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.”
HOW DOES THE NATIONAL LOTTERY WORK
The National Lottery raises money to go to many ‘good causes’ and have helped give out numerous grants to those that need it most.
On their website they state: “We retain around just 1% of revenue in profit, while around 95% of total revenue goes back to winners and society. More so, we run one of the most cost-efficient major lotteries in Europe, with around 4% of total revenue spent on operating costs.
“To date, National Lottery players have helped to raise over £43 billion for Good Causes, with more than 635,000 individual awards made across the UK – the equivalent of more than 225 lottery grants in every UK postcode distri
NO JACKPOT WINNER. IT’S A LOTTO ROLLDOWN AND EVERY PRIZE HAS BEEN BOOSTED
Camelot’s Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said, “It’s amazing news for more than 1.1 million Lotto players who have won £5 plus a free Lucky Dip for matching just two main numbers in tonight’s special £15M Lotto ‘Must Be Won’ draw.
“On top of this, 109,249 ticket-holders scooped £105, instead of £30, for matching just three main numbers.
“As no ticket-holder won the jackpot, the prize is shared between all the other winners.
“National Lottery players make a huge difference to National Lottery Good Causes across the country raising, on average, around £36M every week.
“Thanks to National Lottery players, over £1.2BN has been distributed to date across the UK to help tackle the impact of coronavirus.”