In the English National Lottery how many red thunderballs are there (as at 2006)?
"jackpots, partly so that people living near the border with Northern Ireland would not abandon Lotto when the 6/49 British National Lottery began operations on 14 November 1994. At the same time, the National Lottery introduced computer-generated ""quick picks"" as an alternative to marking numbers on paper playslips. Some retailers now only offer the quick-pick option. For draws beginning on 26 September 1998, the National Lottery increased the cost of a line of Lotto from £0.50 to £0.75. At this time it also doubled the game's starting jackpot to £1 million and increased most of the game's smaller prizes by"
"popular draw, with around 15 to 45 million tickets sold each draw. The most winners for a single jackpot was 133 in January 1995, each player winning £122,510. In the draw, six numbered balls are drawn without replacement from a set of 59 balls numbered from 1 to 59 (formerly 1 to 49 until October 2015). A further ""Bonus Ball"" is also drawn, which affects only players who match five numbers. There are six prize tiers, which are awarded to players who match at least two of the six drawn numbers, with prizes increasing for matching more of the drawn"
"main numbers as well as the Thunderball. There is also a £3 prize for matching the Thunderball alone. Draws take place four times a week – Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays – and are shown live on the official website at 20:00. The first Thunderball draw was held on 12 June 1999 and the draw was originally only held on Saturdays until the major rebrand in October 2002, when it was held on Wednesdays too. From 2006 to 2008, only the Saturday draw was televised, while on Wednesday the draw took place prior to the live TV show and the"
"this brand, including Lotto and Thunderball. As with other lotteries players choose a set of numbers, say 6 from 50, with six numbers then being drawn at random. Players win cash prizes depending on how many numbers they match. The National Lottery launched a pan-European ""super-lottery"", called EuroMillions, in 2004. Currently this is available in nine countries. In the United Kingdom, the national lottery has so far raised several billions of pounds for Good Causes, a programme which distributes money via grants. 28% of lottery revenue goes towards the fund, along with all unclaimed prizes. Additionally, 12% goes to the"
"the day's Lotto and Thunderball draws and also how many winners there are. The same thing is also broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday nights after the local news opt-out showing the results of the Tuesday EuroMillions draw and UK millionaire raffle. ""National Lottery Stars"" are held each year and aired on BBC One. Until 2015, the ceremony's name was ""The National Lottery Awards"". It is currently presented by Ore Oduba. From 1998 to 2017, eighteen National Lottery game shows have aired. The Wednesday night draws were usually broadcast at 22:35 and present the Thunderball and Lotto draws. Until 2006,"
"winning results were announced during the show. The rules of Thunderball changed substantially on 9 May 2010. Before this date, Thunderball matches were drawn from numbers 1 to 34; there was no prize for matching the Thunderball number alone, and the top prize (for matching five main numbers and the Thunderball) was half the current jackpot at £250,000. After this date, the Friday draw was introduced in addition to the Wednesday and Saturday draws. Following the change of rules, while the chance of winning ""anything"" on Thunderball more than doubled, the chance of winning the top prizes more than halved."
"ranging from €10,000 to €250. In 2016 this was increased to 500,000 tickets, still costing €20 each and having a similar breakdown of prizes. Professional footballer Kevin O'Connor won the 2017 Christmas Millionaire Raffle. The National Lottery introduced Telly Bingo in September 1999. Players buy tickets with 24 randomly generated numbers, and can win prizes by matching the numbers drawn on a lunchtime TV show in a variety of patterns, with a prize of €10,000 for a full house. An additional €10,000 Snowball prize goes to someone who achieves a full house on or before the 45th number drawn. If"
"lowered to £22 million. If nobody wins the jackpot when it is £22 million or more, it will roll to the next draw one final time. Then, the jackpot must be won: if no-one matches all six main numbers, the jackpot prize will be shared by the players with the most winning numbers. From October 2015 the total prize fund is 47.50% of draw sales in a normal week, including the raffle. The three-ball prize winners, with odds of 96 to 1, receive £25 each; the two-ball prize winners receive a free £2 entry. 17.82% of the sales are divided"
"National Lottery describes Hotpicks as ""five games in one"", because the player has a choice of five ways of playing the game, each offering different odds and payouts. The entry fee to the Lotto Hotpicks draw is £1 per board. The Thunderball jackpot draw requires players to pick five main numbers from 1 to 39 and one 'Thunderball' number from 1 to 14 for an entry fee of £1 per board. Prizes may be won by matching the main numbers, with matches of the Thunderball number winning bigger prizes. The top prize, now £500,000, is won by matching all five"
"not won, the Snowball prize rolls over to the next draw, allowing one additional number each time. In 2012, Telly Bingo sales were €17.3 million. The National Lottery had a total of 30 scratchcard games on offer during 2012, ranging in price from €1 to €10, and offering instant cash prizes from €2 to €100,000. Sales of instant scratchcard games rose 3.2 percent to €163.5 million in 2012. The National Lottery funds the prize money for two televised game shows. Contestants gain entry to the shows by getting three ""lucky stars"" on associated scratchcards and submitting them in special envelopes"
"comments on the proposal to join Powerball. On January 6, 2010, the Commission voted 3-0 to join Powerball. Texas sales for the game began on January 31, 2010; the first drawing including Texas was conducted three days later. The current format utilizes one set of 69 white balls, and a second set, of 26 red balls (the ""Powerball"".) Players choose six numbers; five white ball numbers, and the ""Powerball” from the second set. Jackpots are paid in either 30 graduated annual payments, or in cash; see below on jackpot choices. Non-jackpot payments are in lump sum. Each game costs $2,"
"a number, with the corresponding section being revealed to the players and the audience. The first player to have all four of their sections revealed progressed to the final round. The final game was a giant modified roulette wheel split into 36 alternately coloured sections (18 red and 18 black), awarding a £1 million prize if the player chose the correct colour. ""Red or Black?"" made its first millionaire in the first show, with bricklayer Nathan Hageman, from Reading, winning on red. The following night the second millionaire was made, with carer Kevin Cartwright also winning on red. Two further"
"that remains in play, for example if the player has 5 Twisters in play, £1000 (£1250 under the £250 a Twister rule) will be offered. The contestant's money has been placed behind one of the Twisters by an independent adjudicator. One by one, the Twisters in play are revealed to determine whether the money is there. If it is not there, a red ""X"" will appear on the display, but if the money is there, a gold ""WIN"" will appear. There are eight ""Twisters"" in the show. The colours are red, yellow, blue, orange, green, pink, white and purple, each"
"43 ""white ball"" numbers, and a green ""Lucky Ball"" from a second set of 43. For the first time; a ""lifetime"" winner could choose the annuity or cash. This format change added a second ""lifetime"" tier. ""Lucky for Life"" became a ""quasi-national"" game on January 27, 2015, adding eight lotteries on that date. As of April 2, 2017, the game is offered in 22 states and the District of Columbia. Players choose 5 of 48 ""white balls"", and a sixth number, from 18 green ""Lucky Balls."" Top prize is $1,000-per-day-for-life (with a $5,750,000 cash option); second prize is $25,000 per"
"squares, 17 pale red ""double-word"" squares, of which one, the center square (H8), is marked with a star or other symbol; 12 dark blue ""triple-letter"" squares, and 24 pale blue ""double-letter"" squares. In 2008, Hasbro changed the colors of the premium squares to orange for TW, red for DW, blue for DL, and green for TL, but the original premium square color scheme is still preferred for ""Scrabble"" boards used in tournaments. In an English-language set, the game contains 100 tiles, 98 of which are marked with a letter and a point value ranging from 1 to 10. The number"
"UK, Eurojackpot and EuroMillions (unlike most two-drum games, Euromillions selects two numbers called ""Lucky Stars"" from the 2nd drum; jackpot winners must make a total of seven matches). Through 2008, Powerball drawings usually were held at Screenscape Studios in West Des Moines, Iowa. The drawings' host was longtime Iowa radio personality Mike Pace, who had hosted MUSL drawings since Lotto America began in 1988. In 1996, Powerball went ""on the road"" for the first time, holding five remote drawings at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. A few weeks later, Georgia became the only jurisdiction to leave Powerball (Maine, which joined"
"has effectively wasted a turn. If a green ball is drawn, it is placed above the ball basin and the team may draw another ball. If a team draws all three green balls, they win a jackpot which increases with each correctly guessed word (but doesn't add to a team's score). From 1989-2000, the jackpot increased by ƒ50, and carried over from show to show; after 2000, it starts at €0 and increases by €100 per word but resets to €0 for each show, as well as when it is won... If a player draws a red ball, their team's"
"the National Lottery Act 2006. The National Lottery is a member of the World Lottery Association. The National Lottery have a number of different machines and ball sets which are selected by either a celebrity or a member of the general public. This is used to randomise the process and create an independent selection of machinery to reduce the chance of human override. Below is a table of how many times each machine has appeared in the main National Lottery, or Lotto game. As of Saturday 3 May 2014 Note, on the draw on Saturday 17 September 2011, they announced"
"balls, 20 red and five white lettered balls were loaded into a seventh machine. If a red ball fell then they would draw a six-digit number for $1,000. If a white letter ball fell, then the six-digit number ""snowballed"" into a prize ranging from $50,000 to $500,000. On June 3, 1982, Wintario introduced a new format which featured a unique scramble draw in which lottery players could match six numbers in any order at all and win $50. The Mystery Bonus Wheel was also new and at first featured merchandise prizes like dishwashers, televisions, Coleman camping gear, flatware, a boat,"
"night Thunderball and Lotto draws. Originally, the entire show was pre-recorded with Dale Winton presiding over the Lottery draws live, later, though, the show was fully recorded with a presenter at ""Lottery HQ"" conducting the live draw. Only 3 people have ever won £100,000. Episode viewing figures from BARB. The National Lottery: In It to Win It The National Lottery: In It to Win It is a BBC National Lottery game show which was broadcast on BBC One from 18 May 2002 to 16 July 2016. It was hosted by Dale Winton. Five contestants compete for a chance to win"
"and PowerBall Plus. 8 games operate under the South African National Lottery brand: Players buy tickets with their choice of six different numbers between 1 and 52; there is provision for random numbers to be generated automatically for those who do not wish to choose, known as 'Quick Pick'. In the draw, six numbered balls are drawn without replacement from a set of 52 balls numbered from 1 to 52. A further ""Bonus Ball"" is also drawn, which affects only players who match five numbers. Prizes are awarded to players who match at least three of the six drawn numbers,"
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"Mega number A mega number, usually known as a powerball, mega ball or bonus ball, is a number drawn in a lottery game that comes from a second number field, rather than among the game's ""regular"" numbers. As of 2015, forty-six U.S. lotteries offer Mega Millions and Powerball, Mega Millions, These games each use two sets of numbers. Mega Millions draws five rubber balls from a machine containing 75 balls. A sixth number, the ""Mega Ball"", then is drawn from a second drum, of 15 numbers. Powerball draws from two sets of numbers as well.. The double matrixes are chosen"
"rolled down and shared between the winners in the next prize tier. This happened for the first time on November 17, 2006, after over € 183 million had accumulated in the jackpot. The sum was shared between the winners of the second rank (there were 20 winners of € 9.6 million each). The first highest jackpot with € 190 million hit the Bayford couple from England on August 10, 2012, but they got ""only"" £ 148.6 million because of the strength of the euro. The € 185 million (£ 161.6 million) jackpot that hit the Weir couple from Scotland on"
"Things That Are Red. A possible 10 – 18 answers are available with numerous outcomes but only the answers on the grid/table are correct. The top prize answers worth £1,000, £2,000 and £3,000 were generally difficult but not totally unheard of (such as Marge Simpson's necklace, The headlights on the 'KITT' car from Knight Rider or the seats in the House of Lords – other answers were easier and would be fairly well known such as 'a postbox'). The host will take calls at random for callers to answer the question, and if it corresponds to an answer on the"
"each week of €500,000. Sales of the main EuroMillions in Ireland for 2006 were over €145 million; this success led to the introduction of 'Plus'. Since November 2009 at least one UK player every week has won a guaranteed £1,000,000. With the introduction of the Tuesday EuroMillions Draw on Tuesday 10 May 2011 there were 2 Millionaire Raffle winners each week. The latest changes to Euromillions in September 2016 now mean that two guaranteed Millionaire Raffle winners are made per draw, or 4 per week across the two draws. According to the Euromillions website, the chances of winning the UK"
"reward for each winning ticket was only $1,992.32. Lucky Money is drawn each Tuesday and Friday during a live broadcast at 11:15 p.m. ET. Two ball machines are used, one with white balls numbered from 1 through 47 and a second with gold balls numbered from 1 through 17. (Before January 28, 2004, each machine contained 32 balls.) Four balls are drawn from the ""white"" machine, and one number (called the ""Lucky Ball"") is drawn from the ""orange"" machine. Anyone who matches all four white numbers in any order plus the Lucky Ball wins or shares the jackpot. The jackpot"
"with scratchcards, and the flagship drawing game, Lotto, began in March 1988. The National Lottery now operates three families of drawing games (Lotto, EuroMillions, and Daily Million), funds televised bingo and game shows, sells a wide range of scratchcards, and runs a number of Millionaire Raffles each year. National Lottery games are available online as well as through a network of over 3,700 retail agents nationwide. By the end of 2013, the National Lottery had achieved over €12 billion in cumulative sales, had paid out €6.7 billion in prizes, and had raised €4.4 billion for the good causes it supports."
"the cross-sell expansion date. Mega Millions is drawn Tuesdays and Fridays. Players choose five white balls numbered 1 through 75, and a gold-colored ""Mega Ball"" numbered 1 through 15. Games are $1 each, or $2 if the ""Megaplier"" is chosen. Jackpots begin at $15 million, payable in 30 graduated yearly installments unless the cash option is chosen. Powerball began in 1992. Its jackpots begin $40 million, with drawings on Wednesday and Saturday nights. For several years in the 1990s, the Lottery aired a television game show called Fun & Fortune, hosted by Rick Tamblyn. (Nationally known Geoff Edwards hosted the"
"Golden Balls Golden Balls is a British daytime game show which was presented by Jasper Carrott. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 18 June 2007 to 18 December 2009. It was filmed at the BBC Television Centre. Golden Balls Ltd licensed their name to Endemol for the game show and merchandise. At the back of the studio is the ""Golden Bank,"" a giant contraption like a lottery machine. Inside are 100 golden balls, containing cash values that range from £10 to £75,000. Twelve of these balls are randomly drawn from the Golden Bank and put into a mixer,"
"six numbers plus a Bonus Ball. The top prize (matching the first six numbers) on a $2 wager is $1,000,000; however the top prize is ""taxes paid"" (the actual prize, $1,408,451, is ""before withholding"", which is to be reported for tax purposes; the ""after withholding"" amount is $1,000,000.) Top prizes on $1 and 50-cent wagers are proportionally smaller. In 2007, the Lottery offered its first Millionaire Raffle; 330,000 tickets were sold at $20 each, after which numbers were randomly drawn to win up to $1 million. The Lottery has held Millionaire Raffles irregularly: some during spring; but most have been"
"The first tickets went on sale on 22 July 1987 and the first draw took place on 1 August 1987. The televised draw is currently hosted by Sonia Grey and Jordan Vandermade. In the main game of Lotto, six balls and one bonus ball are drawn from a Smartplay Halogen II machine containing 40 balls numbered 1 to 40. To win First Division (the top prize), one has to simply mark off all six numbers on the same line. Players can buy Lotto tickets by selecting their own numbers using a coupon, or they can have the machine randomly generate"
"five on 20 February 2006: 12c autumn gorse, 25c common knapweed, 75c navelwort, 90c viper's bugloss and €1 foxglove. With four more on 1 March 2007: 3c yellow flag, 55c large-flowered butterwort, 78c black bog-rush and the 95c purple loosestrife. And a final 3 on 3 March 2008 a 20c thrift, 50c biting stonecrop and 82c sea aster. N Denomination On 1 March 2007 the butterwort was reissues with an N denomination together with a new design the blue-eyed-grass, these were only available in self-adhesive booklets or self-adhesive rolls. Stamps on a Roll On 22 July 2010 An Post introduced"