21 £1m Lottery tickets unclaimed

jbcollectibles1 is absolutely correct.

I won some small amounts in the Euro millions but kept the tickets as on 18th May when they had 18 millionaires I noticed that the range of numbers included a ticket I purchased the previous week.
Had I claimed the prize, that ticket or the other number(s) on the ticket would have been kept by the retailer and the numbers may well have been chosen and I would not have known.
I have asked the retailer on more than one occasion to have a receipt for the numbers on which I have claimed a prize but they are unable to do it.
On the basis of my experience the 'missing' tickets have been discarded.

Designated by county - I don't think so. Country perhaps. The extra money arises in because in Europe a tickt costs €2 and in UK we pay £2. Thus every ticket sold in UK raises an extra 43p which is used to fund extra prizes paid to UK ticket buyers, from time to time

rofl, it will not be scotland for sure, raffle numbers are designated by county - look into it more closely

Where did the £100 million come from???

I am a regular player of the lottery and am constantly complaining to lottery HQ about the poor prizes paid out. In my opinion they have been shaving the prizemoney for over two years. Last Saturday was a prime example, having complained about this many times by e-mail, and never receiving an answer. An estimated jackpot of a very low £4 milliom, in point of fact was shared between three people added up to just over £3.5 million. People in the North are having their jackpot shaved to allow the South to have their Olympics. Pumping in millions of pounds to watch people running, jumping and throwing things. I don't mind what the good causes are, i don't even mind loosing, but I object to being ripped off. The game players who finance all this are being ripped off and it is time somone went to Trading Standards and lodged an official complaint to let the independant referees ensure that the players get a fair crack of the whip. You only have to visit any supermarket to see how many players there are buying tickets for every draw to see that the jackpots are falling well short.

Can someone tell me if we only get a % of the ticket money - where did all this £100 milllion come from?? Was it all taken from the Euro?? I am sure that millions if not billions has been taken from the Lotto and you only had a chance to win if you bought a £2 ticket for the Euro.

So it is not a 'Thank You' to all your players - is it???

Let's have some decent Jackpots!!!! Stop Ripping us off!

Ohhhhh! I wish i had won!! I really do!

The only lottery winners are The Government and for the last seven years - Lordy-Lordy Coe with his sodding Olympics......

If you play online, does this part of the normal euromillions lottery still get an email notification from Camelot, like you normally do OR do you have to check separately??.

When they check lottery tickets, why cant we see the screen? They can say you have no winning numbers, but that might not be the case, and they always say do you want me to throw the ticket........ I always so no. WE SHOULD SEE THE SCREEN......... we see the screen when we pay our shopping bill, STRANGE IF YOU ASK ME?

Simple. The renaming winners are on holiday (its that time of year after all with the kids home). a weeks time they will come forward.

Maybe they fell foul to the Lottery glitch. I was told by my local Sainsbury's lottery outlet that when they check your ticket for winnings it doesn't check the raffle numbers and even better, if you have won even a small prize on the lottery they cannot give you back your ticket!!! The lottery needs to sort this, how many people have collected a small prize and left a million pounds behind because they assumed the ticket was a loser on the raffle. Check your raffle numbers before taking it to your lottery retailer or you may be leaving a £1,000,000 tip.