As with all the National Lottery games, there is a maximum of 180 days from the date of a EuroMillions Raffle draw in which to claim a £1,000,000 prize.
Today if you visit the National Lottery ‘unclaimed prizes’ page you will see that there are 7 as yet unclaimed EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle prizes. That represents in in 6 of the draws made in the last 180 days.
The Euromillions Millionaire raffle is unique to the UK. It was introduced to justify the difference in the cost of buying a ticket in the United Kingdom as opposed to buying one in any of the other eight European countries that also take part in EuroMillions. Elsewhere in Europe it costs you 2, whereas in the UK it costs £2. With today’s exchange rate that equates to an additional 33p that we Brits pay for each ticket. Each EuroMillions ticket sold in the UK comes with a unique reference of 3 letters and 6 numbers as in the example below.
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After each EuroMillions draw the lottery machine randomly selects one of the Millionaire raffle numbers and that is the winner of a guaranteed £1m prize.
The reason that so many prizes go unclaimed is that many players play the same numbers on their EuroMillions tickets week after week and when they see that they haven’t won, often forget to check the raffle.
Hopefully this article will help prompt a few memories.
The current crop of unclaimed £1,000,000 Millionaire Raffle prizes were bought in the following areas. Could it have been one of yours?
4th November 2011 - South Lanarkshire
25th November 2011 – North Ayrshire
25th November 2011 –Wealden (District Council)
23rd December 2011 – West Berkshire
23rd December 2011 – Cardiff Area
10th January 2012 – City of Leicester
17th January 2012 - London Borough of Hackney
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