A Lotto prize of £78,507 won by a ticket purchased in the Colchester area for Saturday 27 September, 2008, has gone unclaimed. All National Lottery prizes must be claimed within 180 of the draw taking place, and the deadline for this particular prize expired at 5:30pm on Thursday 26 March, 2009.

The Nano lottery might not be a lottery you have heard of before, but we expect it will soon become rather popular with lottery players all around the world. The prize in the Nano lottery isn’t a life-changing jackpot, but simply the right to buy one of the new Nano cars from Tata Motors.

We’ve all heard about absent-minded men forgetting Valentine’s Day, but a couple of Lotto players in Spalding did even better and completely overlooked a National Lottery win worth £101,823.

A Lucky Dip Lotto ticket proved very lucky for a HGV driver from Bracknell. Terry Butler, who is 41 and drives for Waitrose, matched five main numbers and the bonus ball to scoop £101,823 on Saturday 14 February, 2009. However, he didn’t realise he had won until two weeks later!

A Lotto Optimism Report published by the National Lottery reveals that 58% of British lottery players believe optimistic people are able to boost the moods of those around them.

One French and One Austrian euromillions players shared the Megajackpot from Friday 6th March's draw.  Each winner takes home €50,000,000, which, at current exchange rates, is around £44,890,000.  You saw that right, nearly forty-five million pounds.  No credit crunch in their households anymore then!

A lottery MegaJackpot is a jackpot that is a lot bigger than a regular jackpot because it has been designated as a special event. All lottery games are exciting, but those that boast a MegaJackpot are even more so because they give players a chance to win a much larger prize. MegaJackpot games are often staged as a mark of celebration, so we can have a Birthday MegaJackpot to celebrate the birthday of a lottery, or a Christmas MegaJackpot to celebrate the festive season.

A new EuroMillions rule has been introduced (effective from Friday 6 March, 2009) that will limit future jackpots to no more than €185,000,000. This is still €2 million more than the highest EuroMillions jackpot on record, so players won’t be missing out on anything. In fact, the new EuroMillions rule will actually benefit some players.

There is less than a week to go before the March EuroMillions Superdraw takes place, and with a megajackpot of £85,000,000 up for grabs, players are getting pretty excited. It therefore makes sense to preview the Superdraw, especially since Friday 6 March also brings a new EuroMillions rule into play.