Euromillions Twelfth Draw

Where were you last Friday night? Well you weren’t winning the Euromillions lottery jackpot of £103million, in fact no one was. As for the eleventh week running the jackpot goes unclaimed, with the numbers being 36, 30, 14, 27 and 21 and the Lucky Stars were 2 and 3.

This is the second time this year that we’ve had such a long rollover period. Back in February 2006, the jackpot rolled over for 11 weeks to £125million, which was won by three players; but estimates for this Friday put the jackpot value at £120million (Euros 180million). With that sort of money, a single winner would become the world’s biggest ever lottery payout winner (Bigger jackpots have been won in the USA, but after tax and lump-sum trade-offs, the final sums paid out have not beaten £120million). The jackpot has not been won for 11 weeks now, rolling over each week, but this week is special. If the jackpot is not won, then all that £120million gets allocated to the next tier. Here, you have to guess the five numbers but only one lucky star, and the odds of doing this are 1 in five million (a lot better than one in 76million).

The Sunday Times Rich List would have welcomed you with last Friday’s jackpot, but if you win £120million you’ll be up at there at joint 465 place, with David Bowie and the Gibbs brothers of Saturday Night Fever Fame. In fact, you only have to win £60m to be there in joint last place!

Now last week Europe went mad buying tickets, so this Friday will be even busier, so our suggestion is to get out quickly and get your tickets, as systems are bound to go slow with overload! Camelot reported sales up 450% last week on previous draws, which means two million tickets being bought every hour at certain peak times. And if you are worried that all the money wagered goes into fat cat pockets, don’t be, £35 million is already allocated to Good Causes in the UK alone.

- 13th November