Two sets of three consecutive numbers appeared when the Lotto draw was held on Saturday 23 January, 2008. The lottery results were 24, 25, 26, 38, 39, 40, and anyone who makes a habit of entering consecutive sequences would have been encouraged by these numbers even if they didn’t happen to win.

Lottery players who fancy a bit of variety would do well to look at instant win games. These are games that offer relatively large potential payouts for small stakes, and you get to play them online from the comfort of your home.

A new Rich For Life scratchcard has been launched by the National Lottery, and is being promoted by a television campaign to go with it. The new game costs £5 to play and offers four top prizes of £40,000 per year for life.

The moment when you first begin to realise that you might have won a National Lottery jackpot is an exciting one, but it can also be disorienting, and is usually followed by at least a short period of self-doubt. Here are some tips on how to go about confirming your win in a sensible and logical manner…

The Thunderball jackpot rolled into the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham on Saturday 03 January, 2009, making Maureen Bywater some £250,000 richer for the new year. Maureen, who is 64 years old, bought her Thunderball ticket after reading a promising horoscope in her newspaper.

The question of why people play lottery games is one that comes up time and time again, especially when the subject is raised by someone who views lotteries as subtle forms of voluntary taxation. Yet there are plenty of good answers to this question, and in this article we present the most common ones…

A woman who spent her last £5 on a Merry Millions lottery scratchcard was rewarded for her daring with a top prize win worth £1,000,000. Maria Murray, who is 41 years old and from Bristol, works as a café waitress for nine hours each week.