| The National Lottery in the UK has created over | | | | money prizes on the National Lottery never actually |
| 800,000,000 winners (yes that's 800 million) since it first | | | | claim their cash! |
| started back in November 1994. Every week, an | | | | Claim that UK lottery money! |
| estimated 750,000 ticket holders win prizes in the UK | | | | The UK lottery web site reveals that between March |
| lottery, yet it's always the big winner who attract the | | | | and July 2006, an astounding £5,313,852.50 of |
| most attention. | | | | prize money was unclaimed. What's more, unless the |
| UK Lottery Biggest Individual Win | | | | ticket owners get their skates on, by January 2007 |
| The largest individual ticket win on the UK lottery was | | | | they will have relinquished their claims, and all that prize |
| back in June 1995, when Paul Maddison and Mark | | | | money they won in the UK National Lottery will have |
| Gardiner from Brighton shared £22,590,829. The | | | | passed on to the lottery's Good Causes. |
| winner's right to anonymity if they wish it, was instated | | | | Recent National Lottery unclaimed prizes |
| after the identity of a single £17.44 million winner | | | | The unclaimed cash include two cool £250,000 |
| was leaked to the press in December 1994. The shy | | | | prizes, one for a EuroMillions draw (who said we never |
| ticket holder, an Asian factory worker from Blackburn, | | | | get anything out of Europe?) and one for a |
| was easily tracked down by the media. | | | | Thunderball draw. Perhaps the most amazing |
| UK National Lottery Biggest Jackpot Win | | | | unclaimed amounts are the TWO jackpot wins of |
| The largest UK National Lottery jackpot was | | | | £1,666,667 for the same date, Saturday 29 April |
| £42,008,610, shared by three ticket holders back | | | | 2006. What tremendous event could have caused |
| in January 1996. The largest European individual winner | | | | two lucky winners to not check their tickets, one in |
| was on the Irish lottery, where a Limerick woman won | | | | Warwickshire and one in Glasgow? Why, footballer |
| £77million, whilst in Spain an entire town won a | | | | Wayne Rooney breaking his metatarsal bone just six |
| life-changing US$263 on the El Gordo lottery. | | | | weeks before the opening match of the World Cup of |
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| Yet all these lottery wins pale into insignificance beside | | | | The biggest National Lottery unclaimed prize? |
| the largest win of all, $365 million, (£210 million) | | | | Back in August 2006, the Doncaster Town Crier was |
| won by a lucky Powerball ticket holder in the US state | | | | employed to try and jog the memory of one winner, |
| of Nebraska. Alain Maboussou, an immigrant from the | | | | whose enormous £9,476,995 jackpot from a |
| Republic of Congo working at a meatpacking plant, | | | | Wednesday draw was still languishing in the uk lottery |
| caused a massive stir by not claiming his money | | | | bank account a month later. Again, the winning date is |
| straight away. Needless to say, he quit his job after | | | | significant, as it was the day that London won the right |
| winning! | | | | to stage to 2012 Olympics. Perhaps the winner was |
| The National Lottery: Unclaimed prizes and sports! | | | | another forgetful sports fan! |
| It may seem incredible, but some lucky winners of big | | | | |