From: "John Smith" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: OT - Euromillions jackpot
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:24:35 GMT


"Tim"  wrote in message 
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> "John Smith" wrote
>> Last week the jackpot was 17 million Sterling but no one won it.
>
> 
>   "Oh yes they did!!"
> 
>
> "John Smith" wrote
>> This week it is 6 million Sterling which seems odd ...
>
> No, it doesn't seem odd at all - someone (a single lucky sod, outside UK)
> won last week (£17,973,434).
>
> "John Smith" wrote
>> ... a few weeks ago, the  jackpot kept going up
>> for 3 or 4 weeks until it got to 30 million Sterling.
>> No one won the 30 million either.
>
> Wrong again.  Again, a single player (outside UK) won the entire 
> £30,738,943
> (Draw 42 Fri 26 Nov 04).
>
>
>

Thanks. Ah, so when I go to the UK National Lottery site and look at the 
results which show ZERO winners of the jackpot plus second and third prizes 
it is simply showing the UK winners... or lack of winners. Mmm, I would 
prefer it to show the EU wide winners. A British lady won about 18 million 
back in the Summer but I wonder how many jackpots have been won by people in 
other EU countries.