Mystery man from Sussex is ‘Set For Life’ after National Lottery win

The winner plans to buy a new TV and a vacuum cleaner.

The West Sussex local, who played a Lucky Dip via the National Lottery website, has become one of over eight million players that win each week on the National Lottery’s range of games.

Interactive winners have the opportunity to release their name, remain anonymous or like this winner, release some details through partial publicity.

Andy Carter, senior winners’ advisor at Allwyn, operator of the National Lottery, said, “What exciting news for Mr H, who can now look forward to receiving £10k every month for a year! Huge congratulations!”

Players can buy tickets in retail outlets, play online at national-lottery.co.uk or by downloading the National Lottery app.

Playing online via the website or app means that your ticket is automatically checked, and you get an email notification if you win a prize.

You can also scan your retail tickets on the National Lottery app to check if you're a winner.

Whether you play using your own personal selection of numbers or prefer to use a Lucky Dip, like Mr H, national-lottery.co.uk makes playing simple and easy.

By setting up an online National Lottery Direct Debit you can guarantee that you never miss out with the added bonus of having no ticket to worry about or numbers to check.

At national-lottery.co.uk, players can buy tickets for all of the National Lottery’s draw-based games including Set For Life, Lotto, EuroMillions and Thunderball.

Once they have registered and set up an account, they can also play a range of online Instant Win Games.

Set For Life is an exciting draw-based game from the National Lottery. You pick five main numbers from 1 to 47, and one ‘Life Ball’ from 1 to 10, for the chance to win fixed prizes – with everything from the top prize of £10,000 a month for 30 years, to the second prize of £10,000 a month for one year and £5 for matching just two main numbers.

The Set For Life game costs £1.50 per line and is drawn every Monday and Thursday.

The National Lottery is celebrating 30 years of changing lives. Since it launched, over 7,200 millionaires have been made and more than £49 billion has been raised for good causes with more than 690,000 individual grants awarded.

This money supports our nation's heritage, the arts and sport, as well as helping grassroots projects in every local community.