Lottery games are full of jargon that can confuse new players, so here’s a handy lottery glossary that provides easy to understand definitions of commonly used terms. By the time you’re read through this glossary you’ll be able to speak fluent Lotto with ease!

A Lancaster Lotto syndicate is celebrating after matching five main numbers and the bonus ball to win £66,502 in the Lotto draw of Saturday 18 October, 2008. The lottery syndicate comprises 33 members, all of whom work in the Stores Department at Lancaster City Council.

Most people who win a lottery jackpot describe the experience as a dream come true, but for a minority the dream becomes a nightmare. In this article we provide some tips on how you can avoid such jackpot nightmares and live happily ever after if and when your UK Lotto numbers come up.

A Norfolk Lotto player won £76,756 on Wednesday 08 October, 2008, despite his usual habit of only ever playing on Saturdays. George Beales, who lives in Diss, strayed from his personal UK Lotto tradition to buy himself a ticket for the midweek draw, and is now thanking his lucky stars that he did!

For the first time ever all six main numbers in the Lotto draw were the same colour.  Viewers watched in suprise as the National Lottery draw took place on Saturday 11th October, 2008 as one after another pink ball dropped through the hatch of the Topaz lottery machine.

National Lottery and bingo games have a great deal in common. Both involve numbers. Both rely entirely on the luck of the draw. And both offer cash prizes to those who win. But which game is best for players? We decided to take a look and find out...

An all-female syndicate of lottery players from Essex won a £7,055,142 share of the £102 million EuroMillions Superdraw jackpot on Friday 26 September, 2008. The nine members of the syndicate all work as carers at an Upminster residential care home, and each one is now £778,000 richer.

An 18 year old British student was one of 15 players to win £7 million in the EuroMillions Superdraw 2008 on Friday 26 September. Ianthe Fullagar, who lives in Ravenglass, Cumbria, celebrated with a meal of beans on toast, ice cream and plenty of cider!