EuroMillions winning numbers revealed for £88m jackpot as Lotto winner vows to keep day job
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The EuroMillions took place on Friday with a huge £88m jackpot up for grabs. The winning numbers for tonight's Euromillions draw are: 2, 9, 15, 47, 50 and the Lucky Stars are 6 and 9. Friday's Thunderball numbers are 02, 21, 24 25 and 33.
EuroMillions was launched on February 7, 2004. Draws are held every Tuesday and Friday evening in Paris at 8.45 pm local time. The prizes range from around £2.50 up to the jackpot. Richard Lustig has won $1.052,205.58 and £766,736.95 in the lottery. He recommends using hand-picked sequential numbers and using the same numbers repeatedly. Lottery winners have to claim their prize within 180 days. The lottery is played in France, Spain, the UK, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland.
There are a lot more ways to win in Euromillions than just a guaranteed Millionaire matchmaker. For those under 25 who have won a lottery jackpot before they know how to handle money, it can often become a nightmare. Jane Park, from Edinburgh, won £1m in 2013 at the age of 17 after buying her first lottery ticket. Callie Rogers, 16, has been on a personal roller coaster since winning £ 1.8m aged 16 in 2003.
Some lottery winners haven't told anyone about their winnings. Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery, has seen ‘all sorts” of reactions in his 15 years dealing with lucky ticketholders. Patrick and Frances Connolly always hoped to win the lottery but didn't have high hopes. Sandra Davine won £300,000 on a National lottery scratch card. She only discovered her huge win after a life-changing phone call to a lottery line operator in December last year. She thought she had won just £1, but it turned out to be £3,300.
Sean Irwin won £300,000 on a scratchcard. Sandra Davine won a lot on EuroMillions. Online sales of lottery tickets and scratchcards have been banned since April. The Sun revealed the new age restriction. The biggest lottery jackpots in history were £1.267 billion (Mega Million), £633.76 million (Powerball) and £575.53 million. Euromillions was launched in 2004. Draws are held every Tuesday and Friday evening in Paris. It is illegal for retailers to sell lottery products to anyone under the age of 18.
Online sales of lottery tickets and scratchcards have been banned since April. The new age restriction aims to make sure the lottery is not a “gateway to problem gambling”. Six Millionaires are made every week. Birmingham has 119 millionaires. 6, 7, 33, 38, 40, and 49 are the luckiest numbers globally. The data is an aggregation.
