LAST NIGHT's National Lottery jackpot draw saw no winners scoop the top prize – meaning Saturday's jackpot is now a whopping £11.1million.
Wednesday's winning numbers were 08, 20, 22, 39, 47 and 48 with a bonus ball of 16.
And the Thunderball results were 06, 07, 15, 22 and 38, while the Thunderball itself was 01.
Just 48 players managed to net themselves £1,750 in the Lotto main draw by matching five numbers, while a further 3,120 earned £140 each by matching four numbers.
Read our Lottery live blog below for the latest news and results…
- John Hall
Explained: How to check the winning numbers?
Every night, we post the winning numbers of the draw that night on our blog.
Bear in mind that on Sundays, there is no draw.
You can also view results for all the latest draws on the National Lottery website.
It will give you the option to view results for the:
- Lotto
- EuroMillions
- Thunderball
- Lotto Hotpicks
- EuroMillions Hotpicks
- Set For Life
As well as winning numbers for the last game, you can also view historic results going back six months.
Lucky fishes
People born under the sign of Pisces are the most likely to win the lottery, according to research from Lott and MailOnline.
The data, which was based on those winning the top lottery jackpot, found that 11.6% of the winners were Pisces.
This means 1/12th of the population make up between 1/9 and 1/8 of all lottery winners.
The fish sign – for those born between late February and late March – is more likely to stumble upon extraordinarily lucky breaks and often find themselves effortlessly attracting most things on their wish list.
So, Pisces, if you’re reading this maybe you should get down to the shops and buy a lottery ticket…
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.
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Daughter’s nagging
Lucky Kerri-Ann Robinson, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was studying for her college diploma in business when she won the jackpot.
The mature student, then 41, was taking care of her three-year-old daughter when she “begged me for a blackcurrant juice” in 2007.
Kerri-Ann raced out to the shops at lunchtime and “as an afterthought, chose a Lucky Dip for the Lotto draw that night”.
The next day during a break between classes, she checked the numbers and discovered she had won £2,543,691.
In 2019, the mum-of-two told the Mirror: “When I realised I had won everything went blurry.
“I put my ticket in my pencil case, rang my mum and burst into tears. She thought something terrible had happened.”
Kerri-Ann used some of the money to fund her “dream wedding” in 2010 and described walking down the aisle as “one of the most magic moments of my life”.
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Dad's pocket money
A hospital visit to see her father led lucky Libby Elliot, from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to win £2,169,664 on the lottery.
Shortly before leaving, he gave his grandchildren pocket money and “two pounds pocket money” to his daughter too.
In 2013, Libby, then 57, told the Daily Record: “On a whim, I put it on the Lucky Dip on my way home.”
The next day, her dad couldn’t believe the news and was amazed that Libby was in hospital with him rather than planning ways to spend her cash.
She recalled him saying: “Look at you, you’re a multi-millionaire and yet you’re sitting here beside me.”
Libby said that memory “still makes me cry” and since then her life has changed drastically.
She went on to lose 11 stone and went “travelling the world on dream trips – from Jerusalem to Route 66 to Buenos Aires”.
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Lottery fairytales gone wrong
Not all lottery winners have such modest tastes including Lotto lout Michael Carroll who bagged £9.7million in 2002.
The former binman, who was branded the ‘King of Chavs’, blew his hefty fortune on “drugs, sex and gold”.
Callie Rogers, who at 16 became Britain’s youngest lottery winner in 2003, spent thousands of her £1.9m jackpot on wild parties, three boob jobs, designer clothes and drugs.
And Lee Ryan, who scooped £6.5m in 1995, ended up penniless and spent two years living on the street after blowing his cash on luxury cars, a helicopter and a £2m home.
- John Hall
Recap: Wednesday's winning numbers
Wednesday’s winning numbers were: 08, 20, 22, 39, 47 and 48.
And the bonus ball was 16.
There were no jackpot winners – meaning Saturday's top prize is now £11.1M.
- John Hall
Fortunes lost
Lotto lout Michael Carroll, who bagged £9.7million in 2002, may know a thing or two about having too much of a good thing.
The former binman, who was branded the ‘King of Chavs’, blew his hefty fortune on “drugs, sex and gold”.
Callie Rogers, who at 16 became Britain’s youngest lottery winner in 2003, spent thousands of her £1.9m jackpot on wild parties, three boob jobs, designer clothes and drugs.
And Lee Ryan, who scooped £6.5m in 1995, ended up penniless and spent two years living on the street after blowing his cash on luxury cars, a helicopter and a £2m home.
- John Hall
Lucky sevens
You are said to be more likely to be struck by lightning than win the lottery but tell that to Richard Lustig.
Lustig is the only person in the world who is believed to have has won the lottery SEVEN times.
In an interview with ABC News, the American explained he re-invested all of his winnings back into the lottery to maximise his chances.
He recommended using hand-picked sequential numbers, as well as using the same numbers repeatedly.
Lustig’s total wins amount to a value of $1,052,205.58, which is about £766,736.95.
- Win 1: January 1993 (scratch-off ticket) – $10,000
- Win 2: August 1997 (Florida Fantasy 5) – $13,696.03
- Win 3: June 2000 (“scratch-off ticket “2nd chance drawing”) – $3,594.66
- Win 4: October 2001 (“scratch-off ticket “2nd chance drawing”) – valued at $4,966
- Win 5: January 2002 (Florida Mega Money) – $842,152.91
- Win 6: November 25, 2008 (Florida Fantasy 5) $73,658.06
- Win 7: August 9, 2010 (Florida Fantasy 5) – $98,992.92
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Plumber's happy ending (continued…)
Sean said the win came at the end of a “really tough” couple of years.
He lost his father to cancer in the summer and is now planning to pay off his dad’s funeral costs and buy a headstone to help his mum out.
He also wants to use his winnings to follow his dreams and retrain as a videographer.
He said: “This win has opened up so many doors and will give me the security to explore a whole new career, so I’m going to do exactly that.”
Sean, who moved in with his parents a couple of years back, also wants to buy a flat and go travelling in Australia and South East Asia.
- John Hall
Plumber ‘screamed with joy’ after winning £300k on scratchcard
A plumber screamed for joy after discovering he had won £300,000 on a scratchcard.
Sean Irwin bought the £3 National Lottery Ruby Doubler Scratchcard during a quick run to the shops for him and his workmate.
The 36-year-old was only halfway through scratching it when he realised he had matched two number 22s and revealed the prize symbol for £300,000.
He could not believe his luck so he asked his boss Bill to double check the ticket.
Incredible video then showed the screaming pair in Sean’s car calling Camelot, who confirmed the whopping win.
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