Whenever anybody thinks of people who have won big cash prizes in the UK, most of us automatically assume that the winner was playing the National Lottery, or the Euro Millions. This isn’t always the case, though. Sometimes scratch cards are the mega method of winning millions. It isn’t always easy to identify big scratch card winners in the UK, since many players wish to remain anonymous, but some of the best winners have been well publicised. Let’s find out more.
About UK scratch cards
Did you know that every day in the United Kingdom, some 694,301 scratch cards turn out to be winners? That means that a huge population of the country are playing online scratch cards. Some scratch cards in the UK can see players win up to £4 million. Others are worth a couple of thousand pounds. Most cost between £1 and £5 a pop, but that’s small change when you see what some of these lucky winners have pocketed with UK scratch cards.
The recent big win in Poole
The most recent big winner to come forward with a scratch card win the United Kingdom, was a man from Poole. He currently holds the record for the biggest ever scratch card win, having pocketed £4 million. Ashok Shukla is a Spar shop owner who sold the £10 scratch card to the mystery winner. Camelot – who operates the scratch card, which is endorsed by the National Lottery – said there was a one in 4,232,860 chance of landing that prize.
Nonetheless, the mystery winner did just that. The shop owner was asked twice to put the card through the machine to see if it was a winner, and he was amazed to see the man so calm. After winning such as vast amount, there’s no surprise that we haven’t heard from the winner since.
Katie Smythe’s win
Another big winner with UK scratch cards was Katie Smythe. Like most lottery or scratch card winners, she was struggling to pay the bills when her big win came in. After asking her father for help to pay the bills, the lucky woman then went on to win £1 million from her Spar shop. Despite having just £85 in her account, she still bought the scratch card, but almost binned it after not initially noticing that she’d won. She and her fiancé of seven years now plan on buying a home and taking their family to Disneyland. In Katie’s case, it is a dream come true.
Dundee teenagers £100k scratch card win
Sometimes, even teenagers can pocket life changing sums of cash. Although it isn’t the £4m or even the £1m we have previously seen, one Scottish teenager was more than happy with their £100,000 haul. The teenager from Dundee, bought his winning ticket with a pound that staff had refused when he tried to buy a packet of crisps. They told him they wouldn’t accept his pound because he’d help them unload a delivery. Instead, he bought a scratch card. Funnily enough, the 17 or 18-year-old teenager then pocketed the massive sum. And all he wanted was a bag of crisps!
Sometimes, even simple things like scratch cards can change people’s lives.
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