The National Lottery better known as Lotto whose debut draw was held in 1994 on 19th November continues to be the most popular sweepstake event in the United Kingdom. The lottery’s popularity can be gauged from the fact that over 32 million adults (nearly 70% of UK’s populace) purchase coupons regularly in the hope of winning a slice of the mammoth prize money. UK Lotto has spawned over 3600 millionaires in the past 24 years, dishing out almost £53 million in takings. The present rules which enable UK lotto coupon holders six distinct opportunities to pocket a cool £2.5million (the minimum ja ..read more

Ireland (read Northern Ireland) has had a sweet and sour relationship with lottery that predates Irish lotto and goes back to the heady days of Irish Sweepstakes during the 30s. A lot happened in the fifty years spanning the sweepstakes of the 1930s and the first draw of the ‘An Crannchur Naisiunta’-the Irish Lotto- held in 1988 on 16th April. The early raffles editions became notorious for scandals rather than the triumphs as an accountant outwitted the National Lottery system, and raked in millions. Though lottery games in Ireland have been played for centuries, the sweepstakes started to g ..read more

What do you need to do if you wish to win the Euromillions, Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot? Nothing! You’ve just got to be incredibly lucky, or if you are like Stefan Mandel, you’ll work out all possible number groupings using a complex mathematical theory of permutations and combinations. Yes, that is what Stefan Mandel mathematician from Romania exactly did-in the 60s, when Romania was reeling under the tyrannical regime of Nicolai Ceausescu, Stefan happened to crack the Romanian lotto. He subsequently went on to win lottery jackpots in Australia and North America an astonishing 14 time ..read more

Though majority of lottery players might be familiar with the term rollover as used in the context of game drawings, there is still a significant proportion that does not have a clear understanding of the term. All of us buy lottery coupons in the hope that Lady Luck would smile on us sooner or later and we’d pocket the jackpot. More often than not, it happens that nobody holds the ticket that contains all the numbers pulled out in a draw. What happens in such an eventuality? What is a lottery rollover? In the event, nobody has the winning ticket whose numbers completely correspond with the n ..read more

First I have to say, that the biggest lottery jackpots own USA lotteries. You are an inveterate Powerball or Mega Millions player never forgetting to pick up your tickets or scratch cards on your way back home from the office, like countless other Americans. You are also very optimistic hitting the jackpot one day sooner or later and keep dreaming about collecting the top prize. But do you know how lucky you need to pocket the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot? Your chances (or anybody’s for that matter) of having an unprecedented spell of extraordinary good fortune (like winning the Powerba ..read more

Melissa Ede, a 57-year old taxi driver from Hull, East Yorks was quivering in disbelief when she called up a National Lottery official to notify her of her landmark £4 million lotto win. She was in a state of shock after scraping one of those Blue National Lottery scratch cards that she had bought from a refuel station for £10 on New Year’s Day in 2018. After realizing the enormity of her win, she decided to hang up her car keys and celebrate the windfall with a champagne toast. Melissa, a crusader for transgender rights and a transsexual herself recalled never having taken a day off from wor ..read more

Lottery games have been popular for several decades and have been able to retain the excitement till date. People buy tickets with great anticipation to be winners and bag a good amount that might change their fortunes. Below we have summarized the type phases of lottery over the years and some stories that have changed fortunes for people from different corners of the globe. Content of the article:Ancient Ages – Medieval Ages – Evolution in America – Moder lottery games – UK Conclude – References Taking a walk back in time, the history of lottery goes back to Biblical times. One finds m ..read more

Reflecting on Euromillions history, the sweepstake was conceptualized by executives employed at Francaise des Jeux, national lotto operator of France in 1994. However, the concept, heavily borrowed from US state-level lotteries, took another decade before it was launched finally in 2004 on 13th February. In the beginning Eurolottery draws were open only to participants from Spain, France, and UK. However, from October 2004, players from Switzerland, Portugal, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, and Ireland started participating in the Euromillions sweepstakes. The 1st winner was a French player who ..read more

Ordinarily you, like most other National Lotto or EuroMillions ticket holders, may not cherish winning the jackpot even in your wildest dreams. Nevertheless, what are most likely to do even if you for a moment consider realizing that impossible dream? Of course, you’ll exult in joy, roll all over the floor of your house in wild ecstasy, inform all your near and dear ones about your unprecedented stroke of luck, and paint the town red. These are some of the things that Colin and Christine Weir did (maybe not exactly in that order) after the couple became the largest jackpot winners in UK lotter ..read more

In case you’ve a close shave with death while you are driving or travelling in a train but somehow emerge unscathed, you may deem your escape purely coincidental. And if you again cheat death by a hair’s breadth, coming out with your life and limbs intact, you might ascribe your getting away to the sheer stroke of luck. But how will you describe your deceiving death seven times at a stretch? ‘Providential’. Believe it or not, an octogenarian man from Croatia, Frane Selek, had a hair-raising brush with death on at least seven occasions but managed to escafpe each time. And after Almighty decid ..read more