National Lottery ticketholders urged to check their tickets after Set for Life prize is scooped
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One Brit has won the top prize in Thursday's Set For Life National Lottery draw. They picked the winning numbers 42, 39, 47, 31, 08 and the Life Ball which was 10.
Jane Park won £1m at the age of 17. She was working as an admin temp and living in a council flat in Edinburgh. Callie is campaigning for the government to raise the legal age limit for National Lottery. In Austria, winners have 3 years to claim their prize. In Belgium, they have 140 days to collect the money. The least amount of time is 90 days for winners from Ireland, Portugal and Spain. They have to tell the world they've won. It takes them 90 more days in France and Luxembourg. There are 1.7million £2 prizes, 462,844 £5 prizes and 225 individual £100 prizes.
National Lottery ticketholders urged to check their tickets after Set for Life prize is scooped. Big money prizes have gone unclaimed. One winner could be losing out on £10,000 every month for the next 30 years. There has been £1.4 billion unclaimable in Lotteries in the last 18 years, including £63.8 million in 2012. The biggest ever jackpot to be won is €190 million. Colin and Christine Weir from Scotland bagged the top prize with €185 million a year before Adrian and Gillian Bayford's, which converted to £161.6 million on August 10, 2012, in Haverhill, Suffolk.
The biggest ever Lotto jackpot was £35m in April 2016. In January 2016, two ticket-holders walked away with £33m each. The National Lottery website lists all its live scratchcard games. It has 1.7mion £2 prizes, 462,844 £5 prizes and 225 individual £100 prizes. Jane spent her EuroMillions jackpot on cars, holidays, clothes and plastic surgery after her win. FranceLoto is the easiest lottery to win, Sweden Loto, Oz Lotta, Polish Mini Lottos and Spanish Lettos are the most difficult.
Brits urged to check their EuroMillions prizes as big money prizes have gone unclaimed. Biggest ever jackpot to be won is €190m, which has been won by four people, including two from Great Britain. In 2012, £63.8m was unclaimable with the ticket bought in Stevenage or Hitchin area of Hertfordshire. There has also been £1.4bn unearned in Lottery winnings in the last 18 years. The money will go to National Lotteries Projects across the UK. Some signs are luckier than others. If you play the lottery, avoid playing popular numbers and mix odd and even numbers.
All National Lottery and Euro Millions draw game prizes must be claimed within 180 days after the draw. Smaller prizes can be paid directly into your account or can can they be collected at designated post offices. If you've won over £30,000 you need to call the claim line on 0333 234 44 33. Biggest ever Lotto jackpot was £35m in April 2016. Two ticket-holders walked away with £33m each in January 2016, and a main L lottery game jackpots of £42,008,610 and £14,002,870 were drawn in 1996. Saturday's top prize is estimated £4.1m.
