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Are we one of tonight’s winners? Noel Edmonds has an critical summary for you… #PleaseNotThem #SaveOurParties https://t.co/GyNPo0DsdY
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK)
January 9, 2016
There were a lot of losers
Six bloody lottery tickets and still no winning numbers
— Eleanor (@eleanorward_)
January 9, 2016
Damn it. #lottery
— Rick Faragher (@R_Faragher)
January 9, 2016
lottery has busted my night! 
was so certain i was gonna win
— Cara Hyde (@carahyde2)
January 9, 2016
Looks like I’m going behind to work subsequent week…no lottery win for me
— Steven Bradley (@StevieBraders)
January 9, 2016
“you can’t put a cost on banter” – @chrisaustin93 after shopping a lottery sheet and removing 0 numbers right
— Matt Moody (@mattmoody17)
January 9, 2016
I’m gonna cry we squandered 2 quid on a lottery tonight and now that we didn’t win a penny Its strike me we could have had a vodka orange with that
— shay (@onikats)
January 9, 2016
If we won a lottery, email helena.horton@telegraph.co.uk and also send a bottle of champagne to a offices during 111 Buckingham Palace Road so we can applaud for you.
A cat was examination a shade unequivocally earnestly
@BitchestheCat in a UK we take a lottery seriously. pic.twitter.com/wkhFzNiRcf
— JHAN (@JhanJeny)
January 9, 2016
If he won a lottery, it would give us paws for thought, wouldn’t it.
Lotto is about to start
This is a vast one. Stay where we are.
The ‘special guest’ is Noel Edmonds.
We were anticipating to get Jeremy Corbyn, yet he is wearing a unequivocally matching jacket.
The balls are: 26, 27, 46, 47, 52, 58. The reward is 48.
Is Jeremy Corbyn to press a button?
CLUE: a poser guest pulling a #Lotto symbol has been famous to mangle adult a celebration or two… do we know who it is yet?!
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK)
January 9, 2016
AND WE’RE OFF!
It’s big, it’s intense, and there is a special guest pulling a lotto symbol and it’s a man! IS IT PRINCE WILLIAM? IS IT PRINCE? We’ll find out.
Imminently, all a dads in a UK will do a fake pant during their #lottery tickets as if they have won. Prepare yourselves Britain.
— francesca (@frxncescab)
January 9, 2016
Thunderball is happening.
Here are a numbers: 2, 3, 5, 22, 11, and a thunderball is 12.
What are people spending their intensity lottery income on?
There are some devious jokes about uni debt
“What would we do if we won a lottery?” “Pay off all my uni debt and afterwards present a remaining 50p to charity.”
— Mollie (@molzify)
January 9, 2016
Is it a good thought to buy an costly jacket?
Nipping out for a Lotto ticket. If we win a kitty we gravely oath to buy a £1m jacket.
— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland)
January 9, 2016
Puppies!
If we ever won a lottery I’d buy so many puppies
— Kilee (@KileeJafek5)
January 6, 2016
If we won, you’d never have to work again, unless we spent it all on puppies
25 mins until we can content my trainer that I’m a millionaire and I’ll compensate him £100 to let me have Monday off. #lotto
— Jenny (@jennywhojenny)
January 9, 2016
Here are a contingency
You’re reduction approaching to win vast in a new complement than underneath a aged system, yet you’re some-more approaching to win a some-more medium volume of income than before.
Winning £100 would still be a treat, wouldn’t it?
Playing a National Lottery tonight? Here’s a contingency (which are still worse than underneath a aged system) pic.twitter.com/8PzyB1dq3T
— Kevin-EconomyBeyond (@EconomyBeyond)
January 9, 2016
There’s a petition opposite a cost travel to £2
The lottery is apparently now some-more remunerative to everyone, with a normal value of a sheet rocketing from 95p to £4.50.
However, this change meant that a cost went adult to £2 per ticket, when it used to be £1.
Some are indignant – 600 people so distant have signed a petition opposite a change.
The petition says: “We all know a inhabitant lottery finished good [sic] in assisting internal communities behind when it was £1 per go.
“We direct it goes behind to £1 and we direct to see some-more of where a income is going.”
Some people are unequivocally vehement about their imminent lottery win
Including Telegraph contributor Leon Watson, who is certain that he is certain to win, and has betrothed to give us a dip when he does.
Can’t wait to win a lottery 2nite. we devise to live-tweet my greeting here, yet if we don’t it’ll probs be given I’m overcome with emotion
— Leon Watson (@LeonWatson)
January 9, 2016
I am indeed in work privately to give a @Telegraph a vast disdainful when we do dip £50.8m. So other papers, don’t worry toll me
— Leon Watson (@LeonWatson)
January 9, 2016
There’s some tip lottery chaff on Twitter
Everyone’s gearing adult for a record draw, and a lot of people have something to contend about it on amicable media.
It’s substantially a fix, let’s start a petition
Don’t worry shopping a lottery ticket. we gamble that inequitable @bbclaurak a inequitable Tories during a inequitable BBC will repair it so some Tory wins
— Ian Austin (@IanAustinMP)
January 9, 2016
How would we spend it?
Bought my initial lottery sheet in a decade. we know how we would spend any penny of a £57m. The remaining £0.8m we would give away
— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound)
January 9, 2016
Geordie Shore star in ‘bad during statistics’ shocker
I can’t wait to win a lottery tonight
— GAZ (@GazGShore)
January 9, 2016
Did gran not tell we that gambling is a sin?
Currently personification bingo with my family to select a lottery numbers lol pic.twitter.com/8cX0j0DCmP
— kay (@MichaelaAshleyY)
January 9, 2016
Being a multimillionaire would substantially win we a lot of ‘friends’ too
If we win a lottery we wouldn’t have to eat lunch alone anymore pic.twitter.com/rGe7m9Ybgf
— OdellMalikKnowles (@pagelessbook)
January 9, 2016
Of course, many people won’t turn millionaires
Remember if we wish to be roughly certain to win a UK lottery, we customarily need to buy about 20,000 tickets a week for a subsequent 40 years…
— Rick Pearson (@pofg)
January 9, 2016
Ours is little compared to a US lottery tonight
Record high lottery wins in both US and UK tonight: US during $900m, 1 in 292m chance, taxed UK during $82m, 1 in 45m chance, tax-free
— Russell W. Warnick (@russellwarnick)
January 9, 2016
Tonight’s £57MIL UK Lottery leader is going to be flattering underwhelmed when they learn of tonight’s $900MIL US #Powerball winner.
— Craig Ising (@craigising)
January 9, 2016
Want to be a millionaire? The ‘expected normal value’ of any sheet will be £4.50
Company KPMG have suggested that a normal value of any sheet will be £4.50.
This is some-more than a common 95p.
Tickets cost £2 – that means that currently it is indeed statistically value personification a lottery, when customarily it isn’t.
“In mathematical terms, it’s a singular occurrence when a approaching value from personification a lottery is aloft than a cost of a sheet – statistically there has never been a improved time to play!” pronounced Josh White, an associate executive in KPMG’s economics practice.
Lottery website crashes due to ‘unprecedented’ direct
Our website is using slower than normal due to rare demand. Please try again shortly.
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK)
January 9, 2016
So many people have been perplexing to find out about tonight’s record pull that a website has indeed crashed, according to a central chatter account.
CAN EVERYONE PLEASE GET OFF THE NATIONAL LOTTERY WEBSITE we AM TRYING TO BUY MY TICKET FOR MY 50.4 MILLION. BUGGER OFF.
— Niamh Skinner (@NiamhSkinner)
January 6, 2016
Lucky we bought my inhabitant lottery sheet earlier, it seem a web site has crashed now pic.twitter.com/UpwuCfeUvs
— we ?? Pandas (@jacqueline65wl)
January 9, 2016
That many people are shopping final notation lotto tickets a inhabitant lottery website crashed hahahh
— Dylan King (@dylaaanking)
January 9, 2016
National lottery site has crashed. There goes my possibility of removing my winning ticket
— Emily Loula (@ladyemsy)
January 9, 2016
Decided to buy my winning lottery sheet online and a website has crashed. NOOOOOO
— Samantha Jenkins (@samanthajenkins)
January 9, 2016
@MaxBlackwood It’s not a surprise, we’ve finished all we can to prepared yet this volume of trade would impact roughly any site. ^Emily
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK)
January 9, 2016
Here’s all we need to know about a National Lottery pull tonight
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What time is a lottery pull on Saturday? What channel is a Lotto pull on? When are a results?
RT if you’re prepared to turn a biggest #Lotto kitty leader this Saturday night! #ItMustBeWon pic.twitter.com/9QCQdWn43u
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK)
January 7, 2016
Lottery players will be means to watch a Lotto and Thunderball draws live on BBC One on Saturday, Jan 9, during 9:55pm. The pull will be finished by 10:05pm. You can also watch a pull live on BBC iPlayer.
The National Lottery will also tide a pull live on a YouTube page.
What will a lottery kitty on Saturday?
Saturday’s £57.8million #Lotto kitty contingency be won… Could we turn a biggest ever winner! #ItMustBeWon https://t.co/bIOJ0J5TuY
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK)
January 7, 2016
A record-breaking £57.8 million kitty is adult for grabs on Saturday night after final Wednesday’s £50.4million pull unsuccessful to furnish a winner.
It is a biggest kitty esteem ever offering by a diversion carrying rolled over for a fourteenth time given Nov 18 and will furnish Lotto’s biggest leader to date if won.
Does a Lotto kitty esteem have to be won on Saturday?
After a Lotto kitty passes £50m it has to be won in a subsequent draw, explains National Lottery user Camelot.
“If no one matches all 6 categorical numbers on Saturday afterwards a hulk kitty will be common between players in a subsequent tier where there is during slightest one winner, many approaching players relating only 5 categorical numbers and a reward ball,” Camelot says.
Does that meant improved contingency of winning a Lotto?
A £57.8million kitty is adult for grabs Photo: national-lottery.co.uk
The contingency of winning a kitty are routinely 1:42 million given matching 5 numbers and a reward round carries contingency of 1:7.5 million.
How can we buy a sheet for a National Lottery draw?
Will it be you?
You can squeeze a sheet for a pull on a National Lottery website. Players contingency emanate an online comment and set adult a Direct Debit.
Players can also squeeze tickets from National Lottery retailers that embody newsagents and high travel supermarkets.
How can we check a National Lottery results?
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You can check a winning numbers on a National Lottery website after a pull and on a central Twitter feed.
The formula will also be review out again on a 10:05pm BBC News programme if we missed a draw.
Advice from Camelot for shopping tickets
The National Lottery website crashed forward of a pull
The Lotto organiser has suggested players to buy their tickets early to equivocate any problems entering a draw.
“Players should get their tickets early, to equivocate a final mins rush, and to safeguard they are in with a possibility to win big,” a website explains.
The outrageous direct for tickets caused a website to repeatedly pile-up on Wednesday night, withdrawal some players incompetent to buy tickets and around 20 million sheet holders incompetent to see if they had immediately won.
How many tickets will be sold?
The series of tickets sole for Saturday’s pull could set a new record with an estimated 40 million people approaching to buy tickets.
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Manic sales
A newsagent in Exeter pronounced sales had been “manic” with some-more than one patron slipping on a ice as they rushed to snap adult a ticket.
“Despite it being so many some-more formidable to win, it seems that these vast jackpots are enlivening people to spend some-more than normal,” he said.
“It doesn’t make any clarity statistically yet we have to be in it to win it and people are creation certain they are in it whatever a cost.”
Criticism of Camelot
The series of tickets sole for tomorrow’ lottery will tip 40 million Photo: ALAMY
Lotto user Camelot sum ten additional balls to their Saturday and Wednesday draws in October, a pierce that has sparked criticism.
The kitty has been won only 4 times given a series of balls were increased, while in comparison there were 26 kitty winners in a same duration before to a order change.
“Obviously, vast jackpots are attractive. Full stop. So when a additional 10 balls were introduced, it was finished meaningful that that there were going to be some-more rollovers, that attract some-more players,” pronounced a Camelot spokesperson.
The association has formerly admitted: “The vast rollovers expostulate sales and that is partial of since we done these changes.”
Euromillions
“Tonight I’m going to be £44million RICHER!!” #Believe pic.twitter.com/vZlU1wXAiT
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK)
January 8, 2016
There is also a Euromillions pull tonight (January 8) with an estimated kitty approaching to strike £44million.
Lottery annals
Colin and Chris Weir Photo: ANDREW MILLIGAN/PA
The prior record kitty was £42million, common between 3 sheet holders in 1996. The largest esteem ever won on a singular Lotto line was £22.5million banked by work colleagues Mark Gardiner and Paul Maddison from Hastings in 1995.
The biggest ever particular Lotto leader is Iris Jeffrey from Belfast who won £20.1M in 2004.
The biggest British winners ever are Colin and Chris Weir from Largs, North Ayrshire, who banked £161 million in a Euromillions kitty in 2011.
Which celebs would a Lotto leader be richer than?
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If a singular actor wins a Lotto kitty they would be richer than some of music’s biggest stars, including a likes of Coldplay’s Chris Martin (worth an estimated £52m), Kylie Minogue (55m) Ed Sheeran (£20m) and a members of One Direction (£25m apiece).
Can we boost your chances of winning a lottery?
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Strategies that guarantee to boost your chances of winning a lottery might not work, according to The Telegraph’s Money experts, yet a numbers we collect can impact your winnings.
Which numbers should we pick?
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Statisticians have suggested players to go for aloft numbers to boost their chances of a bigger win.
They have also warned opposite “birthday bias” that means that many players collect numbers underneath 32 and note that regulars might not have altered their favourite picks given numbers 50-59 were introduced in October.
Dr John Haigh, emeritus reader in arithmetic during a University of Sussex, said: “Historically, fewer people select such combinations than those with reduce numbers, such as formed on family birthdays.”
He pronounced selecting 6 numbers wholly during pointless with a sum total adding adult to during slightest 200, to make a normal above 30, could not boost a possibility of winning yet could meant any esteem income would be common with fewer people.
The numbers that come adult many frequently are 23, 30, 33, 38, 40 and 44.
The round that has come adult a many – 284 times in 2,090 draws – is 23.
Those picked a fewest times (excluding a newly introduced 50-59) are 1, 13, 16, 20, 21, 37.
The round that has come adult a slightest — only 217 times in 2,090 draws – is 20.
Alternatively, conduct to Birmingham, where there are some-more Lotto millionaires per postcode than anywhere else in Britain.
Who is many approaching to win?
Sir John Major
If your name is John or Margaret we might have reason to feel somewhat luckier than usual.
More lotto millionaires have been combined with those names than any other. Similarly, many winners have tended to work in construction, administration or management.
Taxi drivers, lorry-drivers emporium assistants and chefs, also tend to do well, yet it is many approaching given they play some-more than a reduction advantageous bankers, politicians and estate agents.
What are a luckiest places in Britain for winning a lottery?
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The full list:
Romford
Sunderland
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Liverpool
Enfield
Warrington
Bromley
Wolverhampton
Dartford
Dundee
Things some-more approaching to occur than winning a lottery
The possibility of we winning a lottery is about one in 42million, here are a few things some-more likely:
5. Getting struck by lightning
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The contingency of being struck by lightning are about 576,000 to one.
4. Become an wanderer
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According to a Review Journal, your chances of going to space are about 1 in 12.1 million.
3. Crushed by a meteorite
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Being killed by a space stone is about 1 in 700,000, according to calculations by astronomer Alan Harris.
2. Visit a AE for a pogo hang associated damage
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About 1 in 115,300.
1. Become a film star
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You’re some-more approaching to turn a film star (one in 1.5million) than win a jackpot.
There is also some-more possibility of we dating a supermodel (one in 189,200), giving birth to matching quadruplets (one in 15 million) or being pounded and killed by a shark (one in 3.7 million).
Bookmakers William Hill pronounced there were matching contingency of David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn, Tim Farron and Nigel Farage winning a coxless 4 during a 2016 Olympics or a Duke and Duchess of Cambridge carrying 11 children all of whom win Olympic medals.
Share a resources
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Just one per cent of Brits would keep tonight’s kitty for themselves, according to a poll.
Figures from a Charities Aid Foundation found that 97 per cent would palm a income over to family members and 81 per cent would give income to charity.
Almost 3 buliding of sheet holders would give money to friends and 22 per cent would share with work colleagues.
What could we do with £57million?
Blow a lot on a oppulance London pad. A seven-bedroomed patio in Eaton Square, Belgravia, is on a marketplace for £55million.
Alternatively, a 2,000-acre private island in a Philippines is for sale for around a same price.
The kitty could differently buy we dual classical Ferraris – a 1957 Ferrari 335 S Spider Scaglietti goes on sale in Paris subsequent month and is approaching to sell for adult to £23 million – a third of Aston Villa football bar or Andy Warhol’s iconic Triple Elvis.