Special EuroMillions raffle to create 100 new millionaires
The National Lottery is running another special raffle which will boost the number of winners receiving £1 million prizes.
Next Friday the EuroMillions raffle will make 100 people in the UK instant millionaires.
The special format follows on from a similar raffle held last year in honour of the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics.
The ‘Millionaire Raffle’ is open to anyone who buys a ticket for the EuroMillions draw taking place on Friday 26th July.
The EuroMillions raffle
Each person who buys a EuroMillions line will also be given a selection of three letters and six numbers which make up the raffle entry. If these match the same selection picked out of the draw then you’ll be in line for a cash prize of £1 million.
Although the EuroMillions lottery is played across nine different countries, the raffle is only available in the UK. Tickets cost £2 to take part and if you are lucky enough to win both the EuroMillions and the Raffle, you’re entitled to keep both!
Last year in the Olympic Raffle 97 people came forward to claim their £1 million price which broke the World Record for the most millionaires created in one night through a single draw.
Since the start of the National Lottery in 1994 more than 3,300 people have become millionaires or multi-millionaires. However, by the nature of the raffle there are no guarantees and it’s total pot luck who wins.
For more information on how it works check out our article How to win more from the lottery.
Unclaimed lottery prizes
It’s the responsibility of the winners to claim their prizes and there are frequent cases of million-pound prizes left unclaimed. There are deadlines for receiving the money and if no one comes forward in a given time this money is returned to the National Lottery pot.
Right now, for example, a ticket worth £6,053,028 has yet to be claimed which was bought in Rhondda Cynon Taf in South Wales. Therefore if you do play the game, make sure you check your numbers after the draw to make sure you’re not losing out.
Do you play the lottery? What would you do it you won the £1 million jackpot? Let us know in the comment box below.
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@r it probably is not only the regional thing, but also a translational thing. in my home country we use it the same way as i have described. for friday ahead of us we use THIS, and for the following week we use NEXT friday, as it is the NEXT week. or we do not use any next or this, we just say on friday and everybody knows we mean the closest friday to the moment we are in now.
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With respect to this article's publication date, Friday or 'this Friday' refers to 19 July. Next Friday refers to 26 July. This is categorically the correct situation. Whilst 'r' has been rational with her approach to this quandary, as we all know, English is irrational with regard to its rules and exceptions!
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@r Colloquial phrases such as this are rarely literal. ("What's up?" does not mean "what is above?") Besides, if that were the case, nobody would ever bother to say "next Friday" as that would be redundant. They would just say "Friday" as both would be the first/next Friday to occur in time. It would be hyperbole, like saying "next tomorrow" The only logical definition of this phrase is the FIRST Friday to occur from now is simply, "Friday" (aka "this [coming] Friday", and the one AFTER that is the "NEXT Friday" in line (which even concurs with your dictionary definition of the word next ;-)
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24 July 2013