Since the UK Lottery was established it has made millionaires out of over eight million individuals. But what is that old saying that goes with any gambling? How are you going to win if you never play? In November of’94 the UK Lottery was established. Over 750,000 players win prizes on a weekly basis.
UK Lottery Biggest Win In June’95 the largest individual ticket win took place in UK Lottery history. The ticket was worth 22,590,829 Pounds. The prize was shared by two Brighton residents, Paul Maddison and Mark Gardiner. A winners right to anonymity wasn’t put into effect until December of 94. This option was put on the table after the identity of a 17.44 million Pounds winner from Blackburn was released to the media. This winner was a very shy and reserved Asian factory. Even though he kept to himself,the leak made it real easy for the media to track him down.
The biggest jackpot winner for the National UK Lottery was a ticket that was shared by three holders back in January’96. The Irish lottery saw the biggest individual European lottery winner with a woman from Limerick, the El Gordo lottery created a whole town of winners in Spain.
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 Prizes and Sports of The National Lottery This might be hard to believe, but there are many National Lottery winning tickets that go unclaimed. Get out there and get your money people. Between march and July 2006, there was a total of 5,313,852.50 Pounds of unclaimed prizes. If these ticket holders to hurry up, by the time the calender hits 2007, all this prize money will be relinquished. This money will be given to charities by the National Lottery.
Unclaimed lottery prizes from recent drawings are sitting one if from a Euro Million draw and the other is from a Thunder Ball Draw (hey isn’t that a cartoon?). The most amazing winner is from the same day, could you imagine the chances of that. Two people the same day, both won million dollar jackpots and neither one of them checked their tickets.
Biggest National Lottery Unclaimed Prize In August of 2006, the help of Don cater Twin Crier was requested to help jog the memory of the winner of a 9,476,995 Pounds ticket. The prize was still unclaimed a month alter. The significance of the winning date, is that it was the same date London won the rights to host the 2012 Olympics. It must have been another sports fan.
Graham McKenzie is the content coordinator for a South African UK Lottery Ticket website, where you can buy tickets to play the UK lottery and participate in the Euro millions draw.
