The Odds of Winning

Hello again Lottery lovers! We are pleased to announce that in the week of love, we’ve had two lucky winners - Jackie Caskey who won a romantic treat in our Valentine’s competition and Julia Konstankewecz who won the amazing £837.33 from a five ball match! There are still some unclaimed lottery winnings too, so make sure you've checked your lottery lines and claim references recently!

Talking of winning, here are some stats on the National Lottery and how playing in a lottery syndicate powered by LottoByText can help:

- The odds of winning the lottery jackpot are 1 in 116,531,800

- The odds of winning the smallest possible prize are 1 in 23!

- 1 in 4 jackpot is won by a syndicate.

Playing more than one ticket each week could mean bigger chances of winning - this is why our syndicated lottery lines are so popular. LottoByText offers 15 syndicated lottery lines per week - that's 15 extra chances compared to when you are playing on your own buying just one lottery line!

As a further incentive, we are giving away £300 every month to one lucky customer. All you need to do is just stay for one month. How is the for a ton of freebies!

As if that's not enough, we are giving our Facebook fans a chance to grab one of our exclusive promotion prizes almost every month. From luxury hampers and tasty treats to dinner and free holiday vouchers we make sure we treat you well for being loyal to us.

If you've ever wondered what is a lottery syndicate, how lottery syndicates work, or how they make playing the lottery easy and convenient, check out this short video:



To sum up:

Simply buying a lottery ticket doesn’t promise you a prize. Boost your winning chances of becoming an overnight millionaire with LottoByText. It's more fun playing in a group (lottery syndicate) and it's convenient playing the lottery using your mobile. You don't have to brave our grim, wet English weather to your local newsagent to buy your lottery lines! Try playing in a lottery syndicate and get 5 lottery lines per draw on your mobile instead PLUS it's only going to costs you £1.50! It's a no brainer really!

Do keep an eye on our Facebook page for our next prize giveaway and good luck battling against the odds!

EuroMillions & Lotto News Roundup

 For the benefit of those who missed this week’s hot lottery news, I’ve decided to do a weekly roundup of what’s happening on our sister news site.

We have three exciting stories for you this week:

The first is a piece on the humbling tale of the EuroMillions winner who does not want to give up his job, despite winning the iconic £148M EuroMillions jackpot, back in August. The second story is of the news that a pensioner’s dream finally came true with a lottery win. My final piece focuses on the city of Sheffield and how it’s benefiting from National Lottery funding.

£148 million EuroMillions winner keeps to his humble beginnings.

After successfully matching 5 balls and 2 lucky stars to win the second-largest lottery windfall in British history, Adrian Bayford and his wife Gillian, spent their first vacation in a caravan in Scotland with Gillian’s parents. The couple, on holiday, reportedly were modest spenders only splashing out on Easyjet flights to Scotland and a night in with takeaway pizzas.

Upon winning this kind of money, most people would expect a Lotto winner to at least leave their job. Oh no, not Adrian! Having spent his whole life building a small music shop business in Suffolk, he wasn’t going to let it go easily. So come Monday morning he was back on the shop floor, making tea for his business partner and re-tuning those violins.

What are your thoughts on going back to work after winning the lottery?

Old-aged pensioner lands huge jackpot win

Thomas Foden, an eighty-year-old National Lottery winner from Tipton, recently scooped a £3.9 million jackpot with the help of his daughter, Irene Harper.

This draw, on Saturday 29^th September 2012, made history, as it was the UK’s first quadruple Lotto rollover draw ever to occur.

Mr. Foden vows he always knew he was going to win the lottery: “I always said we’d have a big win and it’s a surprise now it’s actually come true,” he told ITV news. His daughter, on the other hand, was completely shocked and couldn’t believe her luck.

Interestingly, it was only recently that they shifted their store of choice for purchasing their National Lottery tickets from local convenience store Fags and Mags to the, far luckier in their case, Costcutter supermarket.

Have you ever thought about changing the way you buy your lottery tickets?

National Lottery invests in the ‘Steel City’

The city of Sheffield is to benefit from a £1.3 million grant from the National Lottery. The immediate beneficiary will be Sheffield Cathedral, situated within the city centre.

In order to restore it to its former glory, the stunning cathedral, dating back to 1430 A.D., needs extensive work to keep it in a good condition.

These renovation plans are extended to Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet – an 18^th century steel works – which has just also received funding to repair the site for visitors.

Sheffield is indeed set to have a National Lottery make-over!

However, that’s now it for this week! Did you know LottoByText release exclusive lottery news every day?

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EuroMillions | September Results

September proved to be an eventful month in the EuroMillions calendar. With  a mid-week rollover and the extra special, bi-annual SuperDraw, the jackpot total for September was £239m.

I know! BeJesus, that’s a lot.

In Euro’s that’s €299,000,000. Doesn’t that sound impressive?

Here’s a breakdown of all the results for September.

I recommend getting your mobile and finding the LottoByText SMS you’ve received so you can check if you have won.

September’s Winning Numbers

Tuesday 04^th September 2012 SUPERDRAW

11 - 17 - 18 - 39 – 44          (5 – 10)          Jackpot £79.75 M

The winning millionaire raffle ticket is RHP042184

Friday 07^th September 2012

13 - 15 - 30 - 35 – 42          (4 - 6)             Jackpot £27.12 M

The winning millionaire raffle ticket is SHY258723

Tuesday 11^th  September 2012

6 - 15 - 22 - 37 – 44             (2 - 4)             Jackpot £21.21 M

The winning millionaire raffle ticket is TJH389116

Friday 14^th September 2012

3 - 10 - 23 - 27 – 44             (7 – 9)            Jackpot £12.05 M

The winning millionaire raffle ticket is VJN265623

Tuesday 18^th September 2012

6 - 7 - 38 - 39 – 44               (7 – 9)             Jackpot £21.51 M

The winning millionaire raffle ticket is WJW891363

Friday 21^st September 2012

4 - 19 - 34 - 41 – 43             (7 – 11)          Jackpot £12.01 M

The winning millionaire raffle ticket is XKH350714

Tuesday 25^th September 2012

7 - 25 - 27 - 48 – 49             (1 – 4)            Jackpot £37.82 M *Rollover

The winning millionaire raffle ticket is YKL907199

Friday 28^th September 2012

20 - 23 - 26 - 30 – 33          (6 – 9)              Jackpot £27.60 M

The winning millionaire raffle ticket is ZLJ501773

If you think you’ve won, click here to claim your winnings.

Remember playing the EuroMillions as part of a lottery syndicate enhances your chances of winning whilst reducing the amount of money you spend. For more information on how this works, visit our lottery syndicate explanation page.

I’ll leave you with this thought. If you won the EuroMillions jackpot would you go back to work? Would you want to change your lifestyle to one of luxury or keep it as humble as possible? You’ll be surprised what £148m EuroMillions Jackpot winner Adrian Bayford did…

EuroMillions: How to Win the Jackpot

Have you ever wondered what the secret is to winning the EuroMillions jackpot?

It’s simple: live in the UK.

Let me explain: the big Lottery news of this week is that Friday night’s EuroMillions jackpot once again fell into the hands of a British ticket holder!

The £37 million prize is the 14^th largest jackpot win ever in the UK, and the (currently unrevealed) winner of this EuroMillions jackpot is the 8^th British winner this year alone. This win continues a remarkable chain of events that makes Britain the star player in the EuroMillions in 2012.

A spokesman for the National Lottery said: “This is amazing. Just a month after Adrian and Gillian Bayford scooped £148 million we have another UK ticket-holder banking the EuroMillions jackpot.”

“The new jackpot winning ticket-holder now sits 14^th on the exclusive National Lottery Rich List.”

“Over 2,900 people have become millionaires since The National Lottery began and, to date, our players have raised an amazing £28 billion (and counting) for National Lottery Good Causes.”

Here is a snapshot of some notable winners:

July: Adrian and Gillian Bayford: £148 million

March: A lottery syndicate of bus drivers: £38 million

February: Cassey Carrington and Matt Topham: £45.1 million

January: Gareth and Catherine Bull: £40 million

Friday’s winner scooped a massive £37,827,314, with the lucky numbers the winner chose as 13, 15, 30, 35 and 42. The lucky stars on the winning ticket were 4 and 6.

This is great news for you, for whilst Britain is riding this wave of luck, you’re perfectly placed to play the EuroMillions! So let’s keep our fingers crossed that our luck will hold out and we’ll get a 9^th UK EuroMillions winner next time there’s a big rollover!

So what’s the smartest way of playing the National Lottery and EuroMillions? Playing in a syndicate, of course!

LottoByText offer a lottery syndicate service like no other. We keep everything simple offering you 15 lines for the National Lottery and EuroMillions for £4.50 a week (which gives you 5 lines in The National Lottery’s Saturday draw and 5 lines in the Wednesday draw too, plus 5 lines either Tuesday’s or Friday’s EuroMillions draw). We even give you 5 free lines as a trial when you first sign up to give you a taste of success! You can cancel the subscription at any time.

Once you sign up to the service you will automatically be placed in one of our syndicates and will be notified of the National Lottery and EuroMillions results after each draw. You can easily check and claim your winnings in our members’ area online, or, if you prefer, you can pick up your winnings at your local post office.

Just like the (now-famous) syndicate of bus drivers from Corby, Northamptonshire, who pocketed £38 million, you could be a syndicate winner too! It’s no lie that 1 in 4 lottery winners are part of a syndicate, so why not increase your chances of winning by playing with LottoByText?

LottoByText & London 2012 - The Figures

Last night we wished our final farewell to London 2012 and beckoned in a new era of enthusiasm for sport in Britain. The raw emotion expressed by both athletes and fans over the previous weeks has given the whole country a further sense of belonging, pride and success. It's great to see and let's hope this feeling stays with us for years to come. 

We, at LottoByText, believe it is very important to highlight the National Lottery's contribution to the Olympics. First because we never would have achieved such success without the National Lottery; and secondly because without our many members of LottoByText the National Lottery will not have had the funding to support such work. 

Your participation in the UK's favourite text-based Lottery Syndicate company has helped Team GB go from a one medal winning nation in 1996 to a 29 Gold, 27 Silver and 19 Bronze medal winning Olympic superpower. 

The figures related to the National Lottery and the Olympics are revealing, to say the least.

Since the National Lottery was introduced in 1994, it has pumped £4.4 billion into British Sport both at the grass-roots and elite standards.

A further £2.2 billion and £66 million for the Olympics and Paralympics respectively has been donated by the National Lottery. These astronomical figures suggest that without the National Lottery the success of the past few weeks would not have been possible.

Recent news also suggests the National Lottery is going to increase its funding due to changes to distribution brought about by the government.

From next year the proportion of public funds to Lottery will be around one to two, with the taxpayer contributing £40 million and the Lottery an estimated £80-87 million a year.

Sir Chris Hoy, six-time Olympic Gold medalist, welcomed the contributions made by the National Lottery. 

"National Lottery and Government funding has helped me to achieve all my dreams in cyclin." Said Hoy.

"I am old enough to remember a time when things were run off a shoe string budget before National Lottery...having these guarantees for the future will be a huge boost."

Sir Steve Redgrave backed up these claims.

"We used to get a lot of silvers, but since the Lottery funding has come in, those athletes are providing the results."

Finally, Olympic Golden Girl, Jessica Ennis couldn't praise the National Lottery enough.

"Funding from the National Lottery and the Government has helped and supported me throughout my athletics career and allowed me to attain my goals."

Fundamentally, the Olympics, British Sport and the National Lottery are intrinsically linked from here on in. 

It is up to us to keep the momentum going through participation of support and also supporting the National Lottery.

Improve your chances of winning that multi-million jackpot and play the National Lottery as part of a syndicate here. It's smart. It's quick. It's great value for money.

Free EuroMillions Lines Offer

Expectations are building for the next EuroMillions draw.

This Friday, the 10th August, may be the final possible rollover for the recent massive £148,000,000 EuroMillions Jackpot.

Over the past few weeks the EuroMillions jackpot has been growing dramatically and with no winning tickets the amount has reached the huge figure of £148,000,000.

After Colin and Chris Weir's huge EuroMillions win last July, we asked the National Lottery if the amount can keep rolling over; potentially reaching a jaw-dropping £200,000,000 figure.

Luckily, the National Lottery updated us with the necessary information and it's good news.

Fundamentally, the maximum the EuroMillions jackpot can grow to is the sterling equivalent of €190 millions. Once the jackpot has reached the maximum amount it will not decrease.

Any additional prize money after €190 million will be shared between the winners in the next prize-winning level in that draw.

Furthermore, once the jackpot has reached the cap of €190 million, it can only roll once before it must be won. If the jackpot is not won after one roll, the full jackpot prize fund will roll down to the next winning prize tier.

This opens the doors for all those winners who get 4 balls. You could potentially win lots more money than you bargained for.

With this in mind, LottoByText are offering a superb EuroMillions syndicate that's great value for money and increases your chances of winning.

EuroMillions Syndicate Free Lines Offer

Simply text HIT to 85200

You will receive 10 EuroMillions lines in the next available EuroMillions draw. The text will costs you £4.50 one-off per 10 lines and results. You can text in as many times as you wish to increase your chances of winning the big jackpot.

In real terms this is what you are getting.

10 EuroMillions lines for £4.50. If you were to buy these lines on your own at your local shop this would cost you £20. You do the maths.

Offer Summary

Text HIT to 85200

Get 10 EuroMillions lines in next EuroMillions draw.

Text costs £4.50 one-off payment. 

You can text as many times as you like to increase chances

Play EuroMillions Now

We say your foolish to do have a go. There's no subscription. Just a one-off payment. Go get some.

Win a £300 Shopping Spree by Playing with LottoByText

With the London Olympics well-underway and British summertime in full flow, forgive us for thinking you’re all too busy to nip to the shops to pick up a National Lottery ticket.

However, help is at hand! We are the experts.

We know you have your mobile phone to hand. We know you’re able to play Angry Birds for hours on end. And we know, now more than ever, that people are organising their lives through their mobile phone.

With this in mind, LottoByText was born. We, at LottoByText, offer you the chance to play the National Lottery & EuroMillions in a syndicate via your mobile phone; and it’s easier than ever.

As pioneers of this revolutionary method of playing the Lottery, LottoByText has also introduced a loyalty scheme designed to truly reward participation.

Once you have been a fully-fledged member for 1 month we’ll enter you into [K2] our prize-packed, monthly sweepstake competition. Don’t worry, we’re not offering you money-off vouchers for Pizzerias or 2-for-1 cinema tickets. Oh no. We are far more generous than that.

Each giveaway may include, but is not exclusive to; an iPad, a £300 shopping spree on the Great British high street or £300 worth of food vouchers. Imagine going for a shop with that kind of money!

Here are some kind words from one of our lucky winners, Wendy Waring: “I can’t believe I have actually won something”, she stated. “I never win anything, never have in my whole life so let us hope this is the start of something good.”
She finished with, “Thanks LottoByText. You’re one in a million.”

What’s great about this is that Wendy did nothing more than play the National Lottery and EuroMillions through LottoByText. We automatically placed her in the sweepstake, and when the results came in, we contacted Wendy directly and informed her of her lucky win. Yes, it’s really that simple!

So, let’s run through this again:

Step 1 - Visit LottoByText and enter your mobile number to sign up.

Step 2 - Receive your 15 Lotto/EuroMillions lines a week and stay with us for at least 1 calendar month

Step 3 - If you’ve been a lucky sweepstake winner we will call you with the good news.

Step 4 - Stay subscribed to be in with a chance of winning next month.

This means 12 times a year you’re in with a chance of winning an iPad, a shopping spree or another amazing prize.

This fantastic opportunity is only for LottoByText members; one not to be missed.

Find out more about this offer here. Or access exclusive lottery news by visiting our news site.