UK National Lottery Gives People Big Wins
The UK National Lottery has made more than 800,000,000 winners (you read that correctly, it’s really 800 million) from the time that it began in November 1994. Each week, about 750,000 people having tickets are winners in the UK lottery, but the ones who win big money are the ones who get all the attention.
The Biggest UK Lottery Win For An Individual – The single person who won the largest jackpot on the UK lottery happened in June 1995. Paul Maddison and Mark Gardiner, both from Brighton, shared £22,590,829. Winners have the right to not be indentified if they want, due to the fact that in December 1994 an individual winner of £17.44 million was leaked to the newspapers. The bashful ticket holder, who was an Asian factory worker that lived in Blackburn, was found very easily tracked by the press.
UK National Lottery Biggest Jackpot Win In January 1996 the lottery reached 42,008,610 Pounds. That was the largest jackpot the national lottery has ever had. This huge prize was shared by three ticket holders. The town of Limerick holds the distinction of having the largest European individual winner ever. A woman there won 77 million Pounds playing the Irish Lottery. Meanwhile, an entire town in Spain took in $263 million by playing the El Gordo Lottery.
Biggest Lottery Win In The World All these wins are very nice, but they cant compare to the largest jackpot ever. That prize was claimed by Alan Maboussou of Nebraska. This meat packer who immigrated from the Republic Of Congo, won $365 million by playing the Powerball. Maboussou made headlines when he didn’t claim his winnings right away. Its safe to say, he never returned for work at the meatpacking plant after this big win.
Unclaimed jackpots and Sports in The National Lottery – You may not think it is possible, but a few people who win large jackpots on the UK National Lottery don’t ever pick up their winnings! They should ask for their UK lottery money! If you check online, you will see that between March and July 2006, an amazing £5,313,852.50 worth of jackpot winnings went unclaimed. Plus, if those tickets remain unclaimed through January 2007, they will have no rights to them and all the cash goes to the UK lottery’s list of Good Causes.
Most Recent Unclaimed Prizes – The two most recent unclaimed prizes were worth 250,000 Pounds. One was for a Euro Million draw and the other was for a Thunder ball draw. Easily the most astonishing unclaimed prizes were both for 1,666,667 Pounds, and were both bought on April 29 2006. What could be so amazing, that it would keep toe people from checking their tickets and claiming their prizes? One was located in Warwickshire and the other in Glasgow. I’m pretty sure it was the fact that Football star Wayne Rooney suffered a broken bone just six weeks before the opening match of the World Cup.
What Was The biggest National Lottery unclaimed prize? Way back during August 2006, the Don caster Town Crier was hired to attempt to get one winner to remember that he had bought a ticket worth a huge prize of £9,476,995. The jackpot came from a Wednesday drawing and it was still sitting in the bank account of the UK lottery thirty days after the drawing. Once again, the date the winning ticket was purchased corresponded to a significant one in the world of Sports – it was the date the city of London found out they were the ones that would get to hold the 2012 Olympics. So, maybe its winner was just another sports lover who had a brain fart.
October 23, 2010
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