Saturday's Lotto draw saw another balance busting National Lottery jackpot go up for grabs - but the huge prize went unclaimed.
The top Lotto prize rose to a staggering £7.6million, but no one won the jackpot - meaning there will be another rollover, with the cash pot rising to £9million on Wednesday night's draw. No player managed to bag £1 million by matching five of the six numbers plus the bonus ball either. However, 10 people did win £13,000 on Lotto HotPicks by matching four of five numbers in the draw â which has the same winning numbers as the Lotto main draw.
Lotto draws take place every Wednesday and Saturday. The EuroMillions also takes place every Tuesday and Friday, and you can also play the Set For Life which gives players a chance to get their hands on £10,000 every month for 30 years.
No Lotto winners tonight, so it'll be an even bigger £9 million jackpot on Wednesday night.
We'll be back with the live blog on Monday for the National Lottery Set For Life results, and make sure you're here on Tuesday for the big £22 million Euromillions draw and Thunderball.
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It shouldn't be too surprising that weren't any winners tonight - as the odds of scooping the top draw on the Lotto are about one in 45 million.
There were also no winners of the second-highest £1,000,000 Lotto prize, which requires players to match 5 of 6 main balls and the Bonus ball.
There were no winners on tonight's Thunderball draw.
As there were no winners on tonight's draw, Wednesday's rollover Lotto jackpot is now an estimated £9 million.
There were no jackpot winners on tonight's Lotto draw, the National Lottery have confirmed.
The winning numbers are: 02, 11, 17,32,39, and the Thunderball is 04.
Time to get your tickets ready for the £500,000 draw.
The Lotto results are already in - now we're waiting for the Thunderball draw, which should get started at 8.15pm.
The winning numbers are: 08, 19,25, 28,29, 50, and the bonus ball is 46.
There's only five minutes to go until tonight's £7.6m Lotto draw!
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A recent study, conducted by bingo industry experts at BestNewBingoSites, analysed Google search data to establish which UK cities are the most hopeful for winning the lottery.
The research looked at Google searches from each city, using a list of 114 popular search terms people tend to use when wanting to win the lottery.
Popular search terms ranging from "how to win the lottery" to "six lucky numbers to win the lottery" were used as part of the study.
Sunderland topped the list of Brits looking to win the lottery, with residents of the northeastern city conducting an average of 44,871 searches a month per 100,000 residents.
To put that into perspective, residents of Sunderland are searching to win the lottery 253% more than those who live in Cambridge, which ranked the lowest out of all UK cities.
People who use certain strategies or patterns when picking their lottery numbers might be hurting their chances of winning big, an expert has warned.
Laura Pearson, vice president of global corporate affairs at Lottoland, said the company had studied user data and found that massive numbers of people were sabotaging their chances of winning. Millions of Brits make a few simple mistakes when choosing their numbers that could be stopping them from scooping the jackpot, in many cases it is because people are trying too hard to win, Ms Pearson said.
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The new operator of the National Lottery took over this week - and have said they want to bring back the “magic” of the 1990s.
Allwyn UK is making changes which it hopes will return the draw to its heyday, when millions gathered round the TV to check their numbers. CEO Andria Vidler told The Mirror: "I want people to feel excited by The National Lottery again and players to believe that it could be them pulling out a winning ticket."
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(PA)A lucky Brit has bagged more than £60million in this week's mega EuroMillions draw, the National Lottery's new operator has confirmed.
The unnamed winner has claimed an incredible £61,708,231 share of the £123million jackpot prize, which has been split with another ticket-holder in Spain. Operator Allwyn - which recently took over from Camelot - has today confirmed it received a claim for the £61.7million, won by a UK ticketholder in the draw on Tuesday (January 30, 2024).
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The £7.6 million Lotto draw will be held at 7.45pm tonight, and the Thunderball will follow at 8.15pm.
A lottery win that means you never worry about money again is something many of us dream about - but for many 'lucky' winners, it led to their eventual downfall instead.
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We'll be bringing you all the latest Lotto and Thunderball results and news as they come in tonight.
