After over 60 draws without a win, a ticket sold in Castlebar, Co Mayo won the €19.06 million Irish Lotto jackpot on Saturday January 15. 149 tickets won the second-tier prize. The jackpot win has yet to be claimed.
Manoharan Ponnuthurai from Brampton in Ontario, Canada has been playing lotteries for around 30 years. He’s come close to winning but a Quick Pick ticket won him the $70 million Lotto Max jackpot in the December 17, 2021, draw.
The Mega Millions draw on Tuesday January 18 has a top prize of $347 million. Your life would change forever if winning that amazing prize but how would you cope with the changes to your life that win will create?
2021 was a good year to play the People’s Postcode Lottery if living in Hull in East Yorkshire, England. Residents in the city won £5 million during the year brightening up a difficult 12 months due to lockdowns.
How do you choose your lottery numbers? Elizabeth and Arlene Lumbo from Toronto, Canada, used numbers chosen by their daughter. It paid off as the former spouses, now best friends, won a $44 million Lotto Max jackpot.
February 4th could be the day you become a multi-millionaire. That’s when the first EuroMillions Superdraw of 2022 will take place. The jackpot will be enhanced to a fantastic €130 million (approximately £110 million), will you be the winner?
Two tickets sold in California and Wisconsin shared a $632.6 million Powerball jackpot in the draw held on January 5. It was the first Powerball jackpot win since October but so far neither of the winners have claimed their prize.
The 2022 El Niño draw took place on Thursday January 6. The traditional lottery had a €700 million prize fund with decimos getting the winning number each receiving €200,000. It was Logroño in La Rioja that won the first prize.
A dream soon became a nightmare for a British EuroMillions player. He believed that his ticket had won a £105 million jackpot but then realized he’d bought a ticket for the next draw not the one that’d just taken place.
Just before Christmas, the People’s Postcode Lottery gave a record £8.4 million win to over 500 neighbours in Rochester in Kent, England. Now the lucky winners are planning to help their families with their fantastic windfall.
January 6th sees the traditional Spanish El Niño lottery take place. It’s a draw with a prize fund of €700 million and tickets can be purchased from Lottery24. Will you start the new year with a big win?
It’s been an incredible 2021 for lottery players. There have been some massive wins including a $1.05 billion jackpot in the Mega Millions draw. In Europe, the record highest EuroMillions win was broken not once but twice.
