October 9, 201015 yr UK Euromillions ticket wins a record £113m A ticket bought in the UK has won a record £113m (129m euros) on the Euromillions lottery draw, according to UK operator Camelot. Camelot said the jackpot win represents the biggest single lottery win in UK history, but it is not known yet if the winner is an individual or a syndicate. The previous record lottery win in the UK was £84.4m, won by an anonymous ticket-holder on Euromillions in May. Before Friday's draw, a technical problem hit UK online ticket sales. Connection problems between Camelot's system and some banks meant sales could not go through between 1845 and 1915 BST, a Camelot spokeswoman said. She apologised saying Camelot did not know how many people had been affected by the glitch and added the matter had been "completely out of our hands". "The fault was not with the National Lottery website, but, due to unprecedented demand, there was an issue with the response times between our website and the online banking systems." The Euromillions numbers were 9, 30, 35, 39, 46, with lucky stars 6 and 8. In announcing the win for the UK ticket, Camelot said: "This is fantastic news; we're absolutely delighted to have such a massive UK win. "This is the biggest lottery jackpot prize ever paid out to an individual in this country. We have plenty of champagne on ice and are looking forward to welcoming the lucky ticket-holder to the National Lottery millionaires' club." About 2,400 lottery millionaires have been created in the UK since the National Lottery launched in 1994. Tickets for Euromillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Irish Republic, Portugal and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries trying to win a share of the same jackpot each week. Camelot is the operator for the competition in the UK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11505747
October 9, 201015 yr Is it just me whom is thinking that recently (past 18 months) the majority of the large mega jackpots are being won by Brits?
October 9, 201015 yr Maybe theres more Gamblers/ lottery ticket buyers in this Country Or that it's promoted more
October 9, 201015 yr or that the cost of a ticket is cheaper, here is 3€ i think, where in UK i know is cheaper.
October 10, 201015 yr I lost :cry: second time of my life I played i lost aswell, i felt tempted to buy a ticket but finally i didn't. i took part on that one really few times, 1 or 2 only.
October 10, 201015 yr The odds are something stupid like 75 million to 1 at winning the big prize. I tend to stick to Thunderball, 1 in 14 chance of winning a prize
October 10, 201015 yr Or you could just avoid it altogether? :idea2: what my wise friend does. he adds on a box what he would had spent on lottos and those games yearly and at the end of the year ta dah, he have around +100€ to spend. :dance:
October 10, 201015 yr It's not really about the money you spend on it, it's the thought of holding on to this shitty little piece of paper in the hope it will make you happy when the chances of that happening are so incredibly small. It's pretty sad.
October 11, 201015 yr then that is like when one goes to vote on elections, don't we put our hopes on a paper that won't grant any happiness for us after all, yet we go to vote?
October 11, 201015 yr I play this once in a year and i only pay the minimum i can,last year with only 2€ i won 10€ Last week i played 2€ again, did not win anything :uhoh: i know someday im gonna be luckiest person in the world :wacky::lol:
October 11, 201015 yr i used to be more lucky when i was a kid, now i never win. you can't never know when you'll be the lucky, one of my grandpa's used to play one of those gambling things (which half the profit goes to blind people), he played it weekly, got lots of tickets in a year, but never won much. and the time he didn't played the big lotto fall in his neigbourhood. :o
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