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

Recap: Last night's Set For Life results

The Set For Life draw took place at 8:00pm last night.

In case you missed it, the winning numbers were: 07, 22, 24, 25, 40

The life ball was: 02.

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‘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 reports.

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

Read more .

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.

£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!”

National Lottery weekly timetable

Here’s a timetable for all UK lottery games including Lotto, EuroMillions and Set For Life.

There is a draw six nights a week.

It should be noted that there are no draws on Sundays.

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.

How much has been raised this week alone?

A grand total of £10,787,717 has been raised by players this week.

Since 1994 when the National Lottery was set up, players like you have helped raise more than £45BNBillion for good causes.

That’s everything from heritage sites like Stonehenge to grassroots organisations working to end loneliness and isolation.

During 2021, more than 660,000 individual grants were made to good causes across the UK – the equivalent of around 235 in every UK postcode district.

2021 was also an extraordinary year for National Lottery winners. A total of 360 players joined the exclusive millionaires club last year – that’s nearly 1 new millionaire every single day.

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.

I was scammed by a $70m lottery jackpot scheme

Christine Lauzon actually won $70million in the lottery back in October, however, a Facebook page under her name promised to send out money to people in need.

An investigation into the situation resulted in the British Columbia Lottery Corporation reaching out to Lauzon, who confirmed that the account using her name and photo was fake.

A post on the fake page claimed that they had “voluntarily decided to help people financially,”

One woman in Fiji responded to the post asking for $1,000 to fix her roof. She asked to not be identified to protect her privacy.

“When there’s heavy rain, the water always enters the house. Like half the house it enters inside,” the woman said.

The scammer offered to send the woman $100,000 if she sent $300 in Bitcoin first. The potential victim was attempting to raise the money when she was contacted by CTV News, who told her that it was a scam.

“I was really happy because nobody has ever offered me that amount of money before,” she said, saying the thought of receiving that much money would be life-changing.

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.

The biggest lottery prizes in history

• £1.308 billion (Powerball) on January 13 2016 in the US, for which three winning tickets were sold, remains history’s biggest lottery prize
• £1.267 billion (Mega Million) a winner from South Carolina took their time to come forward to claim their prize in March 2019 not long before the April deadline
• £633.76 million (Powerball draw) from a winner from Wisconsin
• £625.76 million (Powerball) Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts claimed the jackpot in August 2017
• £575.53 million (Powerball) A lucky pair of winners scooped the jackpot in Iowa and New York in October 2018

What draw is 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.

When was the first draw

The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of £5,874,778.

The largest amount ever to be won by a single ticket holder was £42million, won in 1996.

Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won £41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.

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.

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’, .

Callie Rogers, who at 16 became Britain’s youngest lottery winner in 2003, , 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.

Be gamble aware

The National Lottery operate a ‘Healthy Play’ policy and monitor behavioural patterns in players.

The National Lottery released the following statement, “We know that extraordinary things happen when lots of people play a little. We’re proud to say that around 60% of UK adults enjoy our games, so encouraging healthy play is at the heart of everything we do. The way we design our games and tools helps put you in control of your play.

“To keep players safe online, we use an in-house behavioural analytics model. This identifies at-risk players, enabling us to support them through targeted interventions.”

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  fund instead.

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

‘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.