EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle pays out a guaranteed £1 Million to one person every draw. Which means two new millionaires every single week. Now the EuroMillions Raffle odds actually depend on how many people buy entries into the draw. And it’s not just per ticket – you get one raffle entry for every line of numbers [...]

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The details of the changes to EuroMillions have now been revealed. There is the extra draw on a Tuesday. But also as we mentioned they are going to make it harder to win – in order to generate more rollovers. The changes will apply from Tuesday 10th May 2011, when the first new Tuesday draw [...]

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The stories of lottery winners who lost their millions make great reading. But can there really be as many as it seems, or is it all just media hype – so how many lottery winners go broke? It does happen of course. Some lottery winners do lose everything. Here’s a couple of those unlucky lottery [...]

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EuroMillions have just announced a new Tuesday draw will be added from May this year. This second weekly draw will be in addition to the Saturday draw. With the first draw taking place on Tuesday 10th May, and tickets going on sale Saturday 7th May. The idea is to “make even larger jackpots and create [...]

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The Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 game drew an ‘unusual’ result on Monday, when out came a complete set of consecutive numbers – 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Incredible, cry the misguided lottery prediction enthusiasts. Impossible, foul play, shout the conspiracy theorists. Nothing significant in any way say the level headed sensible lottery players..! It does [...]

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Once again this week we find some crazy rollover jackpots for the US Powerball and Mega Millions. It’s exciting. It’s headline grabbing. After all, Powerball is now at $101 Million, and Mega Millions is $244 Million. But before you throw all your lottery budget in their direction, spare a thought for why those jackpots are [...]

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Us lottery players are a strange bunch. The Mirror reports the results of a survey into what we do to keep our lottery tickets safe. 7% of people surveyed would keep a winning ticket under their mattress. With 4% hiding it in a picture frame. And bizarrely 5% would keep it in their underwear! According [...]

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We regularly hear the stories of ‘lottery winners gone bad’ – but that’s just because we’re obsessed with bad luck stories for some crazy reason. So that’s what the press give us. The fact is, unhappy lottery winners who end up broke are rare. Research Proves It Research by the University of Gothenburg has shown [...]

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They sure do. And a lot more often than the sellers of those dodgy lottery systems would like you to believe! Here’s just the latest of many. In Delmar, Delaware, The Express Food Mart sold a $2 quick pick ticket for the 12th February Powerball draw. The local man who bought that ticket won $1 [...]

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Actually the full question was:- Do more people win with a single quick pick, than those who buy multiple random tickets? But I’ll answer both. The honest answer is, the lottery companies don’t release that kind of information. So I’ll give you the answer based on logic and common sense: It’s very unlikely. People do [...]

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