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Lucky number seven?

Seven is the most popular lucky number in the world. Seven colours of the rainbow, seven days in the week, seven dwarfs hanging out with Snow White. And it isn't 006 who saves the nation from deadly foes.

So with seven millionaires guaranteed to be made this Saturday on Lotto, how lucky in Lottery terms is number seven? Here are seven (of course) lucky number seven Lottery facts.

  • The magnificent seven were a syndicate of IT workers from Liverpool who shared a massive £45.7M jackpot in November 2009.
  • Lucky number seven has appeared in three consecutive Lotto draws six times! But has once failed to appear for 52 draws on the trot.
  • Ted and Marilyn Newton, who head up the Newton family syndicate, banked a £7.9M Lotto jackpot in the seventh month, July, in 2009.
  • There are a whopping 57 syndicates with seven members who have gone public with their win. Most are groups of work colleagues.
  • The nation’s biggest individual Lotto winner is Iris Jeffrey from Northern Ireland who won £20.1M in 2004. She won when 27 and 47 were drawn out of the machine Moonstone.
  • Ray and Barbara Wragg won a stunning £7.6M jackpot in January 2000. One of the numbers Ray chose from a random car number plate – of course it was lucky number seven.
  • Seven isn’t that lucky a little Lotto ball. Drawn 275 times since the Lottery launched it is actually the seventh unluckiest ball in the set!
  • With seven Lotto millionaires to be made on Saturday 25th July the only questions is whether to play little number seven or not.

    Could you be the next lucky Lotto jackpot winner? Play Lotto today and get in the game!

The National Lottery has been changing the lives of winners and supporting good causes across the UK since 1994. In that time, there have been more than 7,200 new millionaires created and by playing The National Lottery you raise over £4 million for Good Causes every dayΔ.

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