National Lottery Instant Win: Worthing resident scoops top £100,000 prize

The Worthing resident, known only as Miss F, became an instant winner after scooping the top prize of £100,000 on a National Lottery Instant Win Game.

Via the National Lottery app, Miss F became one of 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.

Miss F told the National Lottery that she plans to use the money to treat her family with a holiday to Saint Lucia.

Camelot’s Andy Carter, senior winners’ advisor at The National Lottery, said: “Huge congratulations to Miss F for winning this fantastic prize.

"She can look forward to an amazing dream holiday in Saint Lucia and treat her nearest and dearest.”

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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.

On the website, players can buy tickets for all of the National Lottery’s draw-based games, including Set For Life, Lotto, EuroMillions and Thunderball.

By playing any National Lottery game, players generate more than £30m each week for National Lottery-funded projects.

A spokesperson added: “This money helps support everything from the local charity making a difference where you live through to helping our nation’s athletes win Olympic and Paralympic gold medals.

"To date, over £45 billion has been raised and distributed to National Lottery good causes through more than 660,000 individual grants.

“Thanks to National Lottery players, over £1.2 billion is being used by charities and organisations affected by the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, which includes over £600m in funding support from the National Lottery Community Fund which is being used to help groups best placed to support people and communities through the crisis.”

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