The Biggest UK Thunderball Lottery Jackpot Winner

The Biggest UK Thunderball Lottery Jackpot Winner

The UK Thunderball Lottery is one of the highest yielder of winners in the UK National Lottery games. Because this game does not only look for jackpot winners, it had already yielded more than 400 million winners from the day it was introduced until December 31, 2011. Out of more than 400 million winners, 918 were the total of jackpot winners, the rest were winners of minimum prizes.

One of the lucky winners of the UK Thunderball Lottery was a 64 year old woman from South Yorkshire, England. Maureen Bywater won the jackpot prize of £250,000 last January 2009. She has no special lucky numbers. Instead she just bought a random pick Thunderball Lottery ticket. This ticket is generated by a special machine. She was on a great amazement when she saw the numbers selected on her ticket were all the birthdays of her family members. Prior to this, she bought a Thunderball Lottery ticket when she saw her horoscope in the newspaper. She held on to this and considered it as a good sign and luckily it happened. Maureen and her husband have been playing the UK National Lottery since it was introduced in 1994. Luckily, they found their good fortune in Thunderball Lottery. The Thunderball Lottery had granted one of their greatest wishes. It is to buy a brand new headstone for their parent’s grave. After their win, the couple constantly played the lottery.

One of the historical events in the UK National Lottery published on the BBC News Website was the simultaneous winning of seven ticket holders in Lotto and three jackpot winners in Thunderball Lotto. This happened in June 2003. The £4.3 million Lotto jackpot was won by seven lucky ticket holders. They shared the total jackpot taking each more than £625,000 while the three Thunderball winners took £250,000 each.

As a Japanese proverb says, “every dog has his day in luck”. Maybe one of these days is your time to be lucky, so why not give it a try.