Special Euro Millions Superdraw Set for Friday, September 28,2012

On Friday, the 28th of September, your favorite Pan-European lottery draw, Euro Millions, will hold a special €100 million Superdraw.

This is exciting news for lotto fans and international lottery players. Barely a month ago, August Adrian and Gillian Bayford from the UK took home the record  €190 million jackpot. This is the highest Euro Millions jackpot given away since the lottery game started in 2004.

Interestingly, Euro Millions began holding Superdraws back  2007 to celebrate anniversaries and special occasions. The Jackpot is never less than  €100 million and even reaches €130 million at times. The upcoming Superdraw on September 28th is the 11th massive special draw from Euro Millions, but only the first for this year. Another Superdraw is expected to be announced for December.

Euro Millions Superdraws are exciting because the cash prizes are a guaranteed €100 million . This is also a special one off draw and the jackpot is rolled down to the lower division in the event that someone does not match all the winning numbers the 2 Lucky Stars.

So far, these are people who have won Euro Millions cash prizes for 2012:

1.€190,000,000.00 – Adrian and Gillian Bayford of Haverhill, Suffolk in August 2012

2.€58,200,000.00– the winner chose to remain anonymous, won in February 2012.

3.€56,000,000.00 – Cassey Carrington and Matt Topham in February 2012


4.€50,000,000.00 Gareth and Catherine Bull from Mansfield in January 2012
5.€47,600,000.00 A syndicate of bus drivers in March 2012



UK Millionaire Raffle Add-On

Winning €100 million on Friday's Superdraw is great, but you can win an additional GBP 100 Million if you play in the UK Millionaire Raffle as well. Your numbers for these two draws will be totally different since your raffle code will be assigned to you. In case you don't win the Superdraw top prize, you still have a chance to win the GBP 100 Million raffle prize.

September 26 Powerball Winner Hails from Iowa

The winning USA Powerball ticket from the September 26 draw was sold from a convenience store in Bondurant, Des Moines, Iowa .

The  $202 Million jackpot was won with a number line-up bravely built around the number 13 . The winning combination of this draw, plus the Powerball number is the following: 13, 26, 39, 41, 42 with 10 as the Powerball.

The stepping stone to change one’s life and hence, she believes that the winner must be prepared to live with that amount of money and put into good use.

This top purse is considered to be second highest USA Powerball jackpot that was sold in Iowa for this year. The State of Iowa is requiring the public disclosure of name of the winner/s.

A June USA Powerball draw with a jackpot of $241 million was won by a total of 20 people who were all employees of  Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids. This amount was the 15th biggest purse in  Powerball history. Nationally speaking. and the $202 million jackpot was the 28th in the U.S.

The $656 million jackpot prize from Mega Millions that was won in March is the biggest and this amount was split to the three winners – from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland.