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: Get 5 Free Lines on Your Mobile.

September promises to be an action-packed month for LottoByText! We have a number of big events in the diary including a totally new website and the official opening of our Lotto Rewards scheme.

But this is not all - today’s post will run through the numerous deals we are running this month.

We have some fantastic deals exclusively for LottoByText customers – helping you get even closer to winning that champagne-popping Lotto and EuroMillions jackpot.

So we may as well get started! You can take a look at all September’s deals below:

Deal 1:

Get 5 free lines in the National Lottery and EuroMillions

After the first draw, you receive 5 lines in both the Wednesday and Saturday National Lottery draw and 5 lines in either the Tuesday or Friday EuroMillions draw PLUS the results on your mobile for £4.50 a week.

What makes this deal even better is that you also get free entry into our Monthly Lucky Draw to win £300 worth of prizes if you stay for 4 weeks.

Want this deal? Click here.

Deal 2:

Receive 10 EuroMillions lines in the next available EuroMillions draw

For a one-off payment (non-subscription service) of £4.50 you will receive 10 EuroMillions lines + results on your mobile for the next available EuroMillions draw! 10 lines for £4.50! That’s 45p per line! You can text in as many times as you wish to increase your chances of winning the big jackpot. (This deal is very popular when there is a huge rollover or a Superdraw, like there is coming up on the 28^th of September. For more info visit here.)

Want this deal? Simply text HIT to 85200 or Click Here.

Deal 3:

Get 5 National Lottery lines for just £1.50

This is another one-off payment package. For £1.50 you’ll receive 5 National Lottery lines in the next available draw + results direct to your mobile. This is NOT a subscription service which means whenever you feel you would like some extra lotto tickets then just text ADD & we will text you your 5 lines for the next draw. It's an unbeatable offer so don't miss out!

Want this deal? Simply text ADD to 85200 or Click Here.

As you can see, September is packed full of deals for you to take advantage of.

Did you know 55,954 of our customers won on the Lotto and EuroMillions last month? If that’s not a reason to play, I don’t know what is!

LottoByText are the leading Lottery Syndicate service in the UK - providing thousands of customers each week with lottery results direct to their mobile. Play the National Lottery and EuroMillions the smart way with LottoByText.

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?