MONDAY'S Set For Life numbers have revealed while Tuesday's EuroMillions jackpot is set for a whopping ￡20million.
The winning for Set For Life numbers were: 15 - 16 - 19 - 34 - 44 and the Life Ball is 9.
This Tuesday, the EuroMillions jackpot could see one lucky Brit win ￡20mil. The ticket also gives you automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker.
Dream big... just imagine what you could do with this money after playing the National Lottery!
Read our National Lottery live blog below for the latest updates...
louis.allwood@thesun.co.uk 29 minutes ago
NATIONAL LOTTERY WEEKLY TIMETABLE
Here’s a timetable for all UK lottery games including Lotto, EuroMillions and Set For Life.
There is a draw 6 nights a week.
However, there are no draws on Sundays.
Milica Cosic 59 minutes ago
HOW MANY LOTTERY TICKETS WERE SOLD IN THE LAST YEAR?
From total ticket sales of ￡8,373.9 million in the year ending 31 March 2021:
￡1,887.5 million was raised for National Lottery projects
￡4,854.7 million was paid to players in prizes
￡1,004.8 million went to the Government in Lottery Duty
￡275.9 million was earned by retailers in commission
louis.allwood@thesun.co.uk Today, 03:00
WHERE DOES THE MONEY RAISED BY THE NATIONAL LOTTERY GO
In the year ending 31 March 2021, the funds were shared as follows:
Health, education, environment and charitable causes – 40% Sport – 20% Arts – 20% Heritage – 20%
Milica Cosic Today, 02:30
WHICH STAR SIGN MOST LIKELY TO PICK THE RIGHT WINNING NUMBERS?
The moment we’ve all been waiting for. Which sign is most likely to win the lottery? Well, it’s good news if you’re born in February or March.
According to research from Lott and MailOnline, dreamy Pisces is the luckiest sign of the zodiac when it comes to winning the lottery.
The data, which was based on those winning the top lottery jackpot, found that 11.6% of the winners were Pisces – meaning, on average, they were more likely to pick the golden ticket.
Go-with the-flow Pisces will stumble upon extraordinarily lucky breaks and often find themselves effortlessly attracting most things on their wish list.
So, Pisces, if you’re reading this maybe you should get down to the shops and buy a lottery ticket.
louis.allwood@thesun.co.uk Today, 02:00
SATURDAY’S WINNING LOTTO NUMBERS
Saturday’s winning numbers were 13, 52, 2, 54, 42, 38 and the bonus ball was 39.
Milica Cosic Today, 01:30
NATIONAL LOTTERY WEEKLY TIMETABLE
Here’s a timetable for all UK lottery games including Lotto, EuroMillions and Set For Life.
There is a draw 6 nights a week.
However, there are no draws on Sundays.
louis.allwood@thesun.co.uk Today, 01:00
WHERE DOES THE MONEY RAISED BY THE NATIONAL LOTTERY GO
In the year ending 31 March 2021, the funds were shared as follows:
Health, education, environment and charitable causes – 40% Sport – 20% Arts – 20% Heritage – 20%
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 00:30
EXPLAINED: WHAT IS SET FOR LIFE?
The Set For Life draw runs on Mondays and Thursdays and one lucky Brit could win ￡10,000 every month for the next 30 years.
Players have to pick five numbers from 1-47 plus one Life Ball number from 1-10 or go with a Lucky Dip to get a randomly generated number.
You can buy Set For Life tickets online every day from 6am until 11pm. But remember, to play on a draw day, you’ll need to buy your ticket before 7.30pm.
The winning numbers go out at 8pm and can be found on the National Lottery website or their YouTube channel.
louis.allwood@thesun.co.uk 13th Sep 2021, 00:00
WHAT ARE THE BEST TIPS FOR WINNING THE LOTTERY?
Obviously, there is no way to predict the winning numbers in the lottery. Each draw is completely random.
But there are ways to increase your odds.
Firstly, select the right game. The lottery could mean one of several games – each with different odds and jackpots.
Playing a game with smaller odds gives you a better chance of winning.
Secondly, buy more tickets. This sounds obvious, but there are several ways to do this.
Aside from simply splashing out more yourself, one way of increasing your odds of winning is to join a syndicate or pool.
This could be made up of friends, family, colleagues or even strangers – it doesn’t matter.
A syndicate or pool is a group of people who purchase a set number of tickets and agree to share any prizes out equally, whoever wins.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 23:45
HOW EUROMILLIONS WINNER MICHAEL CARROL LOST HIS FORTUNE
Back in 2002, Michael Carrol won a bank-breaking ￡9.7million – all while he was wearing an electronic tag for being drunk and disorderly.
The self-proclaimed “King of Chavs” blew all of his money, including lavish spending on naked waitresses and cocaine.
After buying a five-bedroom mansion in Norfolk for ￡340,000, it became a venue for wild sex parties that he called “roman-style orgies”.
He then spent ￡400,000 extending the mansion, which he dubbed The Grange, and even installed a swimming pool and Jacuzzi.
However, all his parties and wild nights took its toll on the house, which ended up wrecked.
It was reported by the Daily Mirror that a friend of Michael’s said he was "living like a wild animal".
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 23:30
WHAT WAS THE FIRST HOUSE EUROMILLIONS WINNER JANE PARK BOUGHT?
Jane Park was Britain’s youngest EuroMillions winner when she scooped her ￡1million jackpot in 2013.
The Edinburgh socialite moved out of the council house she shared with her mum after buying a three-bed home.
Jane took pride in transforming it with dazzling décor, including flowers in many rooms, mirrored furniture, and coloured with cool greys and monochrome tones.
With a fabulous, open plan kitchen complete with a lavish marble island, the cooking area lead to patio doors which opened into the garden.
However she sold the house in 2016 to move back in with her mum after admitting she was lonely.
The first home she bought after scooping the win was a three-bed property in East Lothian Credit: ZOOPLA
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 23:15
THE UNLUCKIEST LOTTERY WINNERS OF ALL TIME WHO MISSED OUT ON MILLIONS BECAUSE OF LOST TICKETS AND PAYMENT PROBLEMS
That was the case for one young couple this week who missed out on the ￡182million Euromillions jackpot – when they realised their winning ticket payment hadn’t gone through.
Rachel Kennedy, 19, and Liam McCrohan, 21, from Hertfordshire were “absolutely heartbroken” when they realised their usual numbers had come up, but they had won nothing.
The couple, both students, had played the winning numbers of 6, 12, 22, 29, 33, 6 and 11 for five weeks in a row before all seven digits appeared in Friday’s draw.
Rachel’s account was set up to automatically buy a Euromillions ticket with her usual numbers but because her account did not have the right funds, the ticket payment did not go through.
“I called the number thinking that I had won ￡182million and they said ‘yeah you’ve got the right numbers but you didn’t have the funds in your account for the payment of the ticket so it didn’t actually go through’,” Rachel said.
Read the article in full here.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 23:00
WE WON THE LOTTERY THEN GAVE WINNINGS AWAY BY MAKING PALS RICH
A ￡115million jackpot is probably enough to not just change your life, but the lives of everyone you’ve ever cared about too.
Which is probably why Frances and Patrick Connolly decided to give over half of their winnings to 175 people.
“We won ￡114,969,775.70 and we have given away more than half,” Frances said last year.
“That’s ￡60million-worth of love. And the thing that makes me even happier is that every single person we gave money to has passed some of it on to other people. I can’t think of a day since winning the Lottery that I haven’t smiled.”
Read more here.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 22:45
THE BIGGEST LOTTO WINNERS IN HISTORY
￡1.308 billion (Powerball) on January 13 2016 in the US, for which three winning tickets were sold, remains history’s biggest lottery prize ￡1.267 billion (Mega Million) a winner from South Carolina took their time to come forward to claim their prize in March 2019 not long before the April deadline ￡633.76 million (Powerball draw) from a winner from Wisconsin ￡625.76 million (Powerball) Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts claimed the jackpot in August 2017 ￡575.53 million (Powerball) A lucky pair of winners scooped the jackpot in Iowa and New York in October 2018
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 22:30
WHAT WERE TONIGHT'S SET FOR LIFE WINNING NUMBERS?
Tonight’s winning Set For Life numbers were: 15 – 16 – 19 – 34 – 44.
The Life Ball is 9.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 22:15
'WE WON THE LOTTERY THEN GAVE WINNINGS AWAY BY MAKING PALS RICH & FLUSHING CASH DOWN THE LOO AFTER FIVE BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE’
A ￡115million jackpot is probably enough to not just change your life, but the lives of everyone you’ve ever cared about too.
Which is probably why Frances and Patrick Connolly decided to give over half of their winnings to 175 people.
“We won ￡114,969,775.70 and we have given away more than half,” Frances said last year.
“That’s ￡60million-worth of love. And the thing that makes me even happier is that every single person we gave money to has passed some of it on to other people. I can’t think of a day since winning the Lottery that I haven’t smiled.”
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 22:00
EXPLAINED: WHAT WAS MONDAY'S DRAW, SET FOR LIFE?
The Set For Life draw runs on Mondays and Thursdays and one lucky Brit could win ￡10,000 every month for the next 30 years.
Players have to pick five numbers from 1-47 plus one Life Ball number from 1-10 or go with a Lucky Dip to get a randomly generated number.
You can buy Set For Life tickets online every day from 6am until 11pm. But remember, to play on a draw day, you’ll need to buy your ticket before 7.30pm.
The winning numbers go out at 8pm and can be found on the National Lottery website or their YouTube channel.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 21:45
THE MOST COMMON EUROMILLIONS WINNING NUMBERS REVEALED
For EuroMillions, you pick five main numbers and two Lucky Stars, with draws taking place every Tuesdays and Fridays.
The five most drawn main numbers since EuroMillions launched in February 2004 are 23, 44, 50, 19 and 37.
The two most drawn Lucky Stars are 2, 3 and 8.
The least drawn numbers are 33, 36, 22, 40, 18.
The original Lucky Stars were 1 to 9 – of those, the least drawn are 4 and 1.
The more recently added Lucky Stars 10, 11 and 12 have been drawn less.
In the UK, a single entry to a EuroMillions draw costs ￡2.50.
EuroMillions is different to the main Lotto draw.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 21:30
OBLIVIOUS WOMAN HAD NO IDEA SHE WAS CARRYING ￡28MILLION WINNING LOTTERY TICKET IN HER PURSE FOR WEEKS
The 45-year-old, who has not been named, was the sole winner of the draw in Germany on June 9, Lotto Bayern said.
She told reporters that she continued to “carelessly” carry her new found fortune around despite correctly guessing the seven fields on the lottery ticket last month.
She has now vowed to never play the lottery again adding that she now has “more than enough for my husband, my daughter and me.”
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 21:15
LEE RYAN, ONE OF THE LOTTERY'S FIRST WINNERS, ENDED UP PENNILESS AND LIVING ON THE STREET
They say that money can’t buy happiness – as those who’ve experienced the “lottery curse” know all too well.
Despite hitting the jackpot, countless lotto winners have suffered astonishing tragedies from the breakdown of their marriages to losing everything they own.
One of the very first lottery winners, Lee Ryan, scooped the ￡6.5million jackpot just 17 weeks after the lottery was launched on November 14 1994. He made headlines when it emerged he was accused of handling stolen cars and was imprisoned for 18 months after his huge payout.
Lee then spent a decade living the high life and splashed his car on luxury cars, a helicopter and a ￡2million mansion.
But Lee ended up penniless, spent two years living on the street and shacked up in a tiny flat in London he shared with homeless pals. “The money was cursed because I took the p**s out of God when I asked him to make me a multimillionaire. My cellmate warned me to be careful what I wished for,” he said.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 21:00
EXPLAINED: WHAT HAPPENS TO EUROMILLIONS PRIZE MONEY IF NO ONE CLAIMS IT?
If no UK players come forward within 180 days then the prize money, plus all the interest it has generated while it is held in trust, goes to National Lottery-funded projects across the UK.
The National Lottery have said: “Our players change the lives of individuals as well as communities by raising, on average, over ￡33 million for National Lottery-funded projects every week.”
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 20:42
WINNING NUMBERS
Tonight's winning Set For Life numbers are: 15 - 16 - 19 - 34 - 44 and the Life Ball is 9
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 20:15
WHAT NUMBERS DO MOST PEOPLE CHOOSE?
A lot of people doing the EuroMillions pick a lucky dip to get their numbers.
Lottoland advises that people should avoid popular numbers, like 1-31, as people tend to opt for their birth date.
This means if these numbers come up more people will have them and the winning amount will be divided between more people.
They also suggest avoidance of a sequence of numbers.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 20:07
COMING SOON
Tonight's results are on the way, so please pop back later or check previous results.
Milica Cosic 13th Sep 2021, 19:55
FIVE MINUTES TO GO
There are only five minutes to go until the winning numbers for the Set For Life Draw are revealed.
Keep following our blog to see if you've been lucky tonight.
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