National Lottery draw LIVE: Set For Life jackpot of £10k a month for 30 years TONIGHT; buy tickets & how to play
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The Set For Life draw is at 8pm sharp tonight. The jackpot is estimated at £3.6m. Next Lotto jackpots are estimated £5.4m after no-one scooped the top prize on Saturday.
Susan won a piglet. Lottery tickets expire 180 days after the drawing. Scratchcard prizes must be claimed within 180 day after being purchased. Post Office is the only place where prizes up to £500 can be taken. The minimum age to buy lottery tickets has been raised from 16 to 18. Online sales of lottery and scratch cards have been banned. The unclaimed prize money goes to the National Lotteries’s Good Causes Fund. It will go to fund things like sport programmes or local community buildings or other projects. New rules come into effect from today. Those feeling lucky have to be over 18 to play.
Jamie Heavens won £1m on a scratch-off card at 7.30 am and still had a shift ahead. He bought a business and he and his fiancee spent £25k on their wedding. Lottery advisor Andy Carter explains how the winnings are processed. The money is sent to the winner's account within two working days. Two weeks later, the winners are provided with a life coach to help them with the big decisions. The National Lotteries believes it is important to support winners with their mental health.
Winners from different countries have different deadlines to claim their prize. Austria has a whole three years to collect the prize, whereas Belgian winners have 140 days. The least amount of time to snap up the jackpot goes to France and Luxembourg. Ireland, Portugal and Spain have around 90 days to tell the world they've won. The best scratchcard to get is £500 Loaded with odds of just 1 in 3.15. For just a fiver you could be in the running for £ 500. Biggest lottery prizes in history are Powerball and Mega Millions.
New rules change the age limit for buying National Lottery tickets and scratch cards. It's illegal for anyone under the ages of 18 to buy them. Online sales of lottery tickets have already been banned. The unclaimed EuroMillions prize money goes to National lottery-funded projects. The biggest Euromillions jackpots in history were £1.267 billion and £633.76 million. There have been some big UK lottery prizes in the past. GamCare is available 24/7. They can help people who are worried about their gambling. If you're worried, call them on 0808 8020 133 or visit the Gamcare website.
Tonight the Lotto and Thunderball are playing. The draws are at 8pm and 8.15pm. Lottery ticket sales made £8,373.9 million last year. Last year £1,887.5 million was raised for National Lotteries projects, £4,854.7 million paid to players in prizes and £275.8 million earned by retailers. Scratchcard prizes must be claimed within 180 days after being purchased. Prizes up to £500 can be taken at the Lotters' terminal in store.
The National Lottery has a jackpot of £10k a month for 30 years tonight. The winner has 180 days to claim the prize, but unclaimed money goes to the Good Causes Fund. Rule shake-up means you have to be 18 to buy National lottery tickets and scratch cards. Online sales of lottery and scratching cards were banned in April this year. The NationalLottery operate a ‘Healthy Play’ policy and monitor behavioural patterns in players. Around 60% of UK adults enjoy their games. It is illegal for any retailer to sell lottery scratchcards to anyone under the age of 18.
