by Cammy Lott » Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:16 pm
Snuffleupagus wrote:A staggering 800 lottery tickets will be sold every second tomorrow ahead of a EuroMillions draw that will see 100 lucky Brits become millionaires.
Sales of the special EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle tickets are expected to reach more than three million tickets an hour as the public snap up their chance to win the life-changing sum.
And one lucky person will be catapulted into the ranks of the super-rich as the jackpot for the separate Euromillions draw is expected to top £105million.
Organisers of the raffle have urged players to get their tickets early to be in with a chance of landing a windfall.
The previous record was set when 25 millionaires were created in the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle draw on Christmas Eve in 2010.
The raffle is being organised to thank UK lottery players for helping to raise money for funding the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In total the National Lottery is contributing of £2.2billion to the Games.
The Friday night draw will be moved to a temporary slot on BBC from 11pm to 11.10pm, so it doesn't clash with the ceremony.
Over the past two years dozens of people have scooped life-changing wins but some have won considerably more than others.
Matt Topham and Cassey Carrington, both 22, celebrated after winning an eye-watering £45,169,170.50 on the EuroMillions jackpot in February and the month before Gareth and Catherine Bull from Nottinghamshire scooped £40,627,241.
Other big winners include a ticket-holder who banked £113,019,926 in October 2010 but decided not to go public, and Dave Dawes and his wife Angela, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, whose haul was £101,203,600 last October.
A dozen bus drivers from Stagecoach bus depot in Corby, Northamptonshire also scooped £38million between them in March.
Last year, Colin and Christine Weir's numbers came in making them £161million richer and Britain's biggest EuroMillions winners.
The couple, who have more money than David and Victoria Beckham, bought an £850,000 mansion in Largs, Ayrshire, last year, and plan on building a luxury indoor swimming pool and jacuzzi.
They are also sponsoring 15-year-old Scottish racing driver Gregor Ramsay in his first season competing in European and Italian Formula Three events and two months ago it emerged that Mr Weir had pledged to give £750,000 to his local football team, Largs Thistle, to help them clear debts and improve their facilities.
The couple made a seven-figure donation to the Scottish National Party to support its campaign for Scotland to break away from the rest of the UK.
The biggest ever win was £195million won in 2002 by Andrew Whittaker, from West Virginia.
Elaine and Harold Messner from New Jersey shared the world’s largest lottery prize of £250m when they won the Mega Millions draw in March 2007. However, the prize was shared further with an anonymous truck driver from Georgia.
A single ticket claimed by eight co-workers from a Nebraska meat processing plant won £234m in February 2006. Larry and Nancy Ross from Michigan and Joe and Sue Kainz from Illinois shared the £232m jackpot from The Big Game in May 2000.
A £154m Mega Millions prize pool was shared by two winners from Georgia and New Jersey in January 2011.
Nine countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria – participate in EuroMillions, with sales from all of them going into the jackpot fund.
Twenty eight per cent of all EuroMillions ticket revenue goes towards good causes, which helps fund sports, community and social events around Britain and Europe.
Earlier this year National Lottery operator Camelot took out out a survey which shows that lottery winners have a surprising number of purchases in common.
Around half of winners move within three months of a big win and a poll of new millionaires found almost a third (29 per cent) bought a hot tub and a similar number (28 per cent) had a walk-in wardrobe.
Nearly a quarter (24 per cent) had electric gates at their new home, one in five (22 per cent) set up a games room and 17 per cent bought a snooker table.
A fifth (22 per cent) bought a dog while one in 25 (4 per cent) got a cat.
Some 16 per cent adopted a healthy lifestyle with a gym in their home and one in 10 (12 per cent) installed a bar to have drinks to celebrate their good fortune.
Everyone got their tickets ready for tonight?
I 'spec' you won a million as usual, did ya?
[quote="Snuffleupagus"][quote]A staggering 800 lottery tickets will be sold every second tomorrow ahead of a [size=150]EuroMillions draw that will see 100 lucky Brits become millionaires[/size].
Sales of the special EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle tickets are expected to reach more than three million tickets an hour as the public snap up their chance to win the life-changing sum.
[size=150]And one lucky person will be catapulted into the ranks of the super-rich as the jackpot for the separate Euromillions draw is expected to top £105million.[/size]
Organisers of the raffle have urged players to get their tickets early to be in with a chance of landing a windfall.
The previous record was set when 25 millionaires were created in the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle draw on Christmas Eve in 2010.
The raffle is being organised to thank UK lottery players for helping to raise money for funding the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In total the National Lottery is contributing of £2.2billion to the Games.
The Friday night draw will be moved to a temporary slot on BBC from 11pm to 11.10pm, so it doesn't clash with the ceremony.
Over the past two years dozens of people have scooped life-changing wins but some have won considerably more than others.
Matt Topham and Cassey Carrington, both 22, celebrated after winning an eye-watering £45,169,170.50 on the EuroMillions jackpot in February and the month before Gareth and Catherine Bull from Nottinghamshire scooped £40,627,241.
Other big winners include a ticket-holder who banked £113,019,926 in October 2010 but decided not to go public, and Dave Dawes and his wife Angela, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, whose haul was £101,203,600 last October.
A dozen bus drivers from Stagecoach bus depot in Corby, Northamptonshire also scooped £38million between them in March.
Last year, Colin and Christine Weir's numbers came in making them £161million richer and Britain's biggest EuroMillions winners.
The couple, who have more money than David and Victoria Beckham, bought an £850,000 mansion in Largs, Ayrshire, last year, and plan on building a luxury indoor swimming pool and jacuzzi.
They are also sponsoring 15-year-old Scottish racing driver Gregor Ramsay in his first season competing in European and Italian Formula Three events and two months ago it emerged that Mr Weir had pledged to give £750,000 to his local football team, Largs Thistle, to help them clear debts and improve their facilities.
The couple made a seven-figure donation to the Scottish National Party to support its campaign for Scotland to break away from the rest of the UK.
The biggest ever win was £195million won in 2002 by Andrew Whittaker, from West Virginia.
Elaine and Harold Messner from New Jersey shared the world’s largest lottery prize of £250m when they won the Mega Millions draw in March 2007. However, the prize was shared further with an anonymous truck driver from Georgia.
A single ticket claimed by eight co-workers from a Nebraska meat processing plant won £234m in February 2006. Larry and Nancy Ross from Michigan and Joe and Sue Kainz from Illinois shared the £232m jackpot from The Big Game in May 2000.
A £154m Mega Millions prize pool was shared by two winners from Georgia and New Jersey in January 2011.
Nine countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria – participate in EuroMillions, with sales from all of them going into the jackpot fund.
Twenty eight per cent of all EuroMillions ticket revenue goes towards good causes, which helps fund sports, community and social events around Britain and Europe.
Earlier this year National Lottery operator Camelot took out out a survey which shows that lottery winners have a surprising number of purchases in common.
Around half of winners move within three months of a big win and a poll of new millionaires found almost a third (29 per cent) bought a hot tub and a similar number (28 per cent) had a walk-in wardrobe.
Nearly a quarter (24 per cent) had electric gates at their new home, one in five (22 per cent) set up a games room and 17 per cent bought a snooker table.
A fifth (22 per cent) bought a dog while one in 25 (4 per cent) got a cat.
Some 16 per cent adopted a healthy lifestyle with a gym in their home and one in 10 (12 per cent) installed a bar to have drinks to celebrate their good fortune.[/quote]
Everyone got their tickets ready for tonight? :Wiiiine!:[/quote]
I 'spec' you won a million as usual, did ya? :NAA:
