Christmas lottery will have someone singing ‘merrily on high’

Friday 16 December 2016

With just four days to go, the top prize in this year’s Channel Islands Christmas lottery has reached £1,052,000.

And, since the value of the top prize climbs with the number of tickets sold, and Islanders are clearly keen to have a flutter, that prize could rise even further.

Last year’s top prize was slightly higher - £1,161,750 – created by a surge in last minute sales. Retailers say that could happen again.

Last year’s winner was a syndicate of office workers in Jersey.

This year’s draw will take place in Guernsey on Tuesday 20^th December.

Money raised from the sale of tickets funds good causes in the Islands.

This year’s top prize though is nothing compared with the Spanish Christmas Lottery – Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad – in 2012 that was 720 euros, at that year’s exchange rate £585m.