National Lottery results LIVE: Winning Lotto numbers REVEALED with £3.6m Set For Life jackpot up for grabs

SET For Life has returned with another chance to win £10,000 a month for the next 30 YEARS.

The winning numbers for Thursday's draw are 07, 22, 24, 25, 40 and the life ball is 02

Meanwhile, the winning numbers for Tuesday's EuroMillions game were 3, 12, 19, 24, 30 and the Lucky Stars were 02 and 05.

Please gamble responsibly. And when the fun stops, stop.

Read our Lottery live blog below for the latest results and updates…

  • Milica Cosic

    What happens to unclaimed prizes?

    Any cash that isn’t claimed after a total of 180 days from a game played in the UK goes to National Lottery projects across the country.

    Folks in Ireland have just half that time to claim too, with only 90 days before the prize money is off the table.

    Once the claim period is over, the ticket officially expires and the owner of the lottery ticket will no longer be able to claim any of their winnings.

    But after that time has expired, any unclaimed prizes, plus any interest they might have accumulated in that time, are allocated to the National Lottery’s Good Causes fund instead.

    This will usually then go on to help fund things like sport programmes or local community buildings or other projects.

  • Milica Cosic

    ‘Britain’s unluckiest couple’

    “BRITAIN’S unluckiest couple” unfortunately split up after missing out on a huge £3million Lottery jackpot.

    Martyn and Kay Tott were overjoyed when finding out they had bought the winning Lottery ticket back in 2001.

    But their joy quickly turned to “torture” upon discovering the ticket was missing – and a 30-day window to report it had passed.

    Martyn said the near-win “quickly highlighted our differences” and lead to bickering, with the married couple mutually agreeing their relationship had run its course.

    But he now feels the loss was a good thing, saying “there is no guarantee it would have brought me happiness”.

    The couple, who lived in Watford at the time, realised they had won an unclaimed prize six months after buying the ticket in 2001.

  • Joseph Gamp

    Helpful tips to help you win

    1. Avoid computer picks. It lowers your odds of winning.
    2. On scratchcards try buying 10 of one ticket instead of several different tickets.
    3. Mix it up – Never play all one-number groups.
    4. Don’t pick all odd or all even numbers.
    5. Don’t play patterns.
    6. Avoid anniversaries, birthday’s and dates.
    7. Don’t Copycat – Avoid playing winning numbers that have been drawn before, because every combination has a chance of coming up once every half a million drawings.
  • Joseph Gamp

    Who are the biggest Euromillions winners in history?

    Your chances to win may be remote but if you do you could win big.

    Here are some of the record prizes one by UK winners in the past:

  • Joseph Gamp

    Set For Life results REVEALED

    The Set For Life draw has taken place.

    Tonight winning numbers are 07, 22, 24, 25, 40 and the life ball is 02.

    Are you a winner?

  • Joseph Gamp

    Set For Life returns in 30 minutes time

    Set For Life returns tonight with another chance to bag a jackpot of £10k a month for the next 30 years.

    We will announce the numbers right here shortly after 8pm.

    Good luck!

  • Joseph Gamp

    ‘We won, then gave our winnings away’

    A £115million jackpot is probably enough to not just change your life, but the lives of everyone you’ve ever cared about too.

    Which is probably why Frances and Patrick Connolly decided to give over half of their winnings to 175 people.

    “We won £114,969,775.70 and we have given away more than half,” Frances said last year.

    “That’s £60million-worth of love. And the thing that makes me even happier is that every single person we gave money to has passed some of it on to other people. I can’t think of a day since winning the Lottery that I haven’t smiled.”

    Read more here.

  • Joseph Gamp

    Mum-of-two stayed to finish shift after winning big on scratchcard

    A MUM of two stayed to finish her care home shift after finding out she had landed £1million on a lottery scratchcard.

    Stunned Sara Thomas, 26, asked colleagues to ring Camelot to check her jackpot was for real.

    She broke the news to partner Sean Warner, 28, who urged her to take the rest of the day off but she kept working.

    Sara, from Merthy r Tydfil, South Wales, said: “I was gobsmacked when I won.

    “When I told Sean, he said I should leave work for the day but we were short-staffed and I didn’t want to let the girls down so I stayed.

    “The rest of the day was a bit of a blur.”

  • Joseph Gamp

    ‘We won, then gave our winnings away’

    A £115million jackpot is probably enough to not just change your life, but the lives of everyone you’ve ever cared about too.

    Which is probably why Frances and Patrick Connolly decided to give over half of their winnings to 175 people.

    “We won £114,969,775.70 and we have given away more than half,” Frances said last year.

    “That’s £60million-worth of love. And the thing that makes me even happier is that every single person we gave money to has passed some of it on to other people. I can’t think of a day since winning the Lottery that I haven’t smiled.”

    Read more here.

  • Joseph Gamp

    Top scratchcard to get

    According to Oddschecker, the best scratchcard to snap up is £500 Loaded with odds of just 1 in 3.15.

    For just a fiver you could be in the running for £500.

    In second place, with the same odds, is Full of £500s which also has a top prize of £500.

    Cashword Multiplier follows close behind, which sees punters scratch off letters to reveal symbols to create full words.

  • John Hall

    Euromillions was scooped by one lucky winner

    The Euromillions jackpot of £55 million has been won by a lucky player but they were not from the UK.

    There were seven players that guessed the five numbers and one lucky number correctly and four of those were from the UK.

    They managed to win themselves a share of the £254,522.80 prize money meaning each got a total of £63,630.70.

  • John Hall

    £1m scratchcard winner went back to work

    Winning £1m was sheer luck for Jamie Heavens, who purchased a Millionaire Riches Scratchcard after watching a customer in front of him do it.

    After leaving the petrol station, he pulled into a layby to scratch it off and was gobsmacked when he won.

    However, hardworking Jamie, from Bournemouth, had no intention of quitting his day job.

    Jamie told the Mirror: “It was 7.30 in the morning and I still had a day’s shift ahead… I won a million pounds and earned another £100 for my shift.”

    After that the roofer and his fiance Danielle spent £25,000 on a lavish wedding with “a band, a videographer and a massive marquee”.

    He bought a business but feels rather happy about his new job, adding: “I still work but now I’m my own boss!”

  • John Hall

    'Gold digger'

    ONE of Britain’s biggest EuroMillions winners has won a bid to gag his former mistress after she wrote a book about their holiday romance.

    Gareth Bull, 50, was married to wife Catherine when he scooped almost £41million in 2012.

    But Gareth has now won a battle for a restraining order against his lover that bans her from bringing legal action against him, the Mirror reports.

    She claimed she had a right to publicly speak out on their tryst to defend allegations she was a "gold digger".

    Read more here.

  • John Hall

    Money doesn’t buy happiness

    For many, winning the jackpot means mass celebrations and ultra-expensive cars – but not for Susan Hardman.

    When the mum-of-one’s numbers came up in January 2010 she worked as a hairdresser in Eardisley, Hereford, and was “struggling financially”.

    Instead of splashing out when the £1.2million win landed in her bank account, she traded in her scissors for overalls and became a pig farmer.

    Susan claimed to be happier than ever knee-deep in mud and said bringing a piglet into the world brought her “more satisfaction” than winning the lottery.

  • John Hall

    What is up for grabs in the Euromillions

    5 MAIN NUMBERS Plus 2 Lucky Stars – Jackpot 

    5 MAIN NUMBERS Plus 1 Lucky Star – £130,554.30

    5 MAIN NUMBERS – £13,561.20

    4 MAIN NUMBERS Plus 2 Lucky Stars – £844.70

    4 MAIN NUMBERS Plus 1 Lucky Star – £77.80

    3 MAIN NUMBERS Plus 2 Lucky Stars – £37.30

    4 MAIN NUMBERS – £25.60

    2 MAIN NUMBERS Plus 2 Lucky Stars – £9.10

    3 MAIN NUMBERS Plus 1 Lucky Star – £7.30

    3 MAIN NUMBERS – £6.00

    1 MAIN NUMBER Plus 2 Lucky Stars – £4.30

    2 MAIN NUMBERS Plus 1 Lucky Star – £3.60

    2 MAIN NUMBERS – £2.50

  • John Hall

    Man won £250,000 on Lottery scratchcard – then conned his own mum

    A MAN who won £250,000 on a lottery scratchcard later conned his OAP mum out of tens of thousands of pounds.

    Barry Perryman, 41, won the six-figure sum with his parents seven years ago.

    But within months he was abusing his role as his mother’s carer to transfer money from her bank account, a court heard in June this year.

    Perryman, who arrived at court in a wheelchair with his leg in plaster, admitted a four-year long fraud when he appeared at Plymouth Crown Court.

    He was in a syndicate with dad Roy and mum Christine Perryman when they won £250,000 on a scratchcard bought from a Londis store in Keyham, Devon in September 2014.

    The defendant bought the winning ticket, matching four numbers on a Winning 7s card.

  • John Hall

    ‘Britain’s unluckiest couple’

    “BRITAIN’S unluckiest couple” unfortunately split up after missing out on a huge £3million Lottery jackpot.

    Martyn and Kay Tott were overjoyed when finding out they had bought the winning Lottery ticket back in 2001.

    But their joy quickly turned to “torture” upon discovering the ticket was missing – and a 30-day window to report it had passed.

    Martyn said the near-win “quickly highlighted our differences” and lead to bickering, with the married couple mutually agreeing their relationship had run its course.

    But he now feels the loss was a good thing, saying “there is no guarantee it would have brought me happiness”.

    The couple, who lived in Watford at the time, realised they had won an unclaimed prize six months after buying the ticket in 2001.

  • Milica Cosic

    Top tips for playing the lottery

    Have you ever wondered the secrets to winning big in the lottery? Is it pure luck or is there a system to it…?

    1. Avoid computer picks. It lowers your odds of winning.
    2. On scratchcards, try buying 10 of one ticket instead of several different tickets.
    3. Mix up your numbers.
    4. Even it out – Don’t pick all odd or all even numbers.
    5. Split from the crowd, so don’t play patterns.
    6. Apparently, you should avoid anniversaries, birthday’s and dates.
    7. Avoid playing winning numbers that have been drawn before, because every combination has a chance of coming up once every half a million drawings.
  • Milica Cosic

    Tips to get lucky numbers

    Avoid repeats – Another top tip is to ensure you are always choosing numbers that weren’t drawn last week.

    While it might seem 3 is a lucky number, just because it appeared in the previous draw, it doesn’t mean it will again next time.

    Odds and evens – According to expert analysis, all-odd and all-even line-ups are drawn less than three per cent of the time.

    As there are seven gaps to fill, this means it is best to pick three odd and two even, or two odd and three even.

    One of these patterns will occur in 68 per cent of EuroMillions draws.

    Shun same last digits – Similarly to odds and evens, it’s good to mix things up when it comes to the second digit of your numbers.

    Even if seven might be your lucky number, think twice about choosing 7, 17, 27, 37 and 47.

    Almost 90 per cent of draws have no more than one repeated last digit.

    And your chances of winning with four same final digits drop to less than two tenths of one per cent.

  • Milica Cosic

    Unluckiest winner of all time

    That was the case for one young couple this week who missed out on the £182million Euromillions jackpot  when they realised their winning ticket payment hadn’t gone through.

    Rachel Kennedy, 19, and Liam McCrohan, 21, from Hertfordshire were “absolutely heartbroken” when they realised their usual numbers had come up, but they had won nothing.

    The couple, both students, had played the winning numbers of 6, 12, 22, 29, 33, 6 and 11 for five weeks in a row before all seven digits appeared in Friday’s draw.

    Rachel’s account was set up to automatically buy a Euromillions ticket with her usual numbers but because her account did not have the right funds, the ticket payment did not go through.

    “I called the number thinking that I had won £182million and they said ‘yeah you’ve got the right numbers but you didn’t have the funds in your account for the payment of the ticket so it didn’t actually go through’,” Rachel said.

    Read the article in full here.

  • Milica Cosic

    How to play Set For Life?

    To play Set For Life, you are required to pick five numbers from 1 to 47 and one Life Ball from 1 to 10.

    Draws are held on Monday and Thursday evenings.

    You can buy Set For Life tickets online every day from 6am until 11pm.

    But remember, to play on a draw day, you’ll need to buy your ticket before 7.30pm.

  • Milica Cosic

    Explained: Tonight’s draw

    Tonight is the Set For Life draw, meaning one lucky Brit will be in with the chance of winning £10,000 a month for the next 30 years.

    The draw will be held at 8:00pm, and the winning numbers will follow on our blog shortly after.

    You can buy Set For Life tickets online every day from 6am until 11pm.

    But remember, to play on a draw day, you’ll need to buy your ticket before 7.30pm.

  • Milica Cosic

    Is tonight's Set For Life worth playing?

    The game with the best odds, in terms of winning the top prize, is the Thunderball.

    According to the National Lottery website, the odds of winning the jackpots are:

    • Lotto jackpot: 1 in 45,057,474.
    • EuroMillions jackpot: 1 in 139,838,160.
    • Set For Life top prize: 1 in 15,339,390.
    • Thunderball top prize: 1 in 8,060,598.

    Set For Life winner becomes full time ghost hunter

    A WOMAN who scooped £10,000 a month for 30 years on the National Lottery Set For Life quit her job to become a ghost hunter with her husband.

    Part-time paranormal investigator Laura Hoyle, 39, has decided to ditch her day job to pursue her spooky passion with Kirk Stevens, 37, after their big win.

    The 39-year-old is used to shocks – after realising she had landed the life-changing amount of money when she initially thought she had only won a fiver.

    Laura was able to immediately jack in her job at a logistics firm, after realising the cash could allow her to concentrate on her ghost-hunting hobby full-time.

    Read more here.

    Recap: Wednesday night's Thunderball numbers

    Last night’s Thunderball draw took place shortly after the Lotto.

    The winning numbers were: 05, 12, 16, 17 and 38.

    And the Thunderball itself was: 03.

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