Wigan Syndicate wins in Rolldown Jackpot Draw

It wasn’t just millionaires that were created in the £120million Rolldown Euromillions Draw on 17 November 2006, a syndicate of six workmates from Wigan won £68,008.90 for correctly guessing the five main numbers. They were among 29 other winners across Europe for that prize tier. The Wigan-based syndicate only started playing Euromillions five weeks ago when they heard the news of the large rollover jackpots. The £10,148 that each member has won may not mean they can give up the day job, but it does mean some very welcome cash for the members. Syndicate leader Jim Brenan knew on the Friday night they’d won, but didn’t call the others, as it was so late. He plans a trip to Cyprus and some home improvements. Fellow syndicate member Ken Brown plans to upgrade his car and do some home improvements. He had promised his family a racehorse if he won the lottery, so has made a start with a horseshoe bought specially with his winnings. Alan Marley will be smiling with his win as he’s planning some new teeth!

Overseas the Japan Lottery has announced its biggest win ever. According to Japan Times Online, someone has won 584,156,640 Yen (£2,598,156) on the Big Soccer Lottery for 26 November 2006, beating the previous highest jackpot of 400 million Yen (£1,779,290) won on Loto 6. The biggest prize value available for the Big Soccer Lottery is 600 million Yen (£2,668,317). Players have a computer-generated ticket, which randomly tries to predict the results from all of the 14 J1 and J2 football league games. If your ticket gets the results right, you win! And in Turkey, the Turkish National Lottery Administration has announced its New Year Jackpot will be 20 million Turkey New Lira (£7,048,792). There will be 2,760,000 winners of prizes, which will range in value from 2 TRY (70p) to the jackpot of 20 million TRY. Tickets priced at 5-20 TRY (£1.76-£7.05) go on sale from 9/12/06.

-28/11/06