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'Unluckiest Lad In Britain' Misses Out On EuroMillions Jackpot After Ticket Mix-Up

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Updated 16:49 14 Jan 2022 GMTPublished 16:46 14 Jan 2022 GMT

'Unluckiest Lad In Britain' Misses Out On EuroMillions Jackpot After Ticket Mix-Up

He was so close to being £14 million richer

Jake Massey

Jake Massey

A man from London reckons he might be the 'unluckiest lad in Britain' after narrowly missing out on winning the EuroMillions jackpot.

Rossi Carmina bought a ticket on 3 January after a pal noted that he 'seemed a lucky person', and sure enough, when he checked his numbers on The National Lottery app he found that every number matched.

Rossi didn't understand why he hadn't won.
Kennedy News and Media

But to his horror, the 23-year-old realised he had inadvertently entered the 7 January EuroMillions draw four days in advance, rather than the next day's draw that matched his numbers - meaning his 'winning' ticket was actually worthless.

A 'sickening' app screengrab shows the winning digits for 4 January's draw - 18, 28, 35, 36, 41, 06 and 11 - directly below Rossi's identical saved numbers.

If he'd bought a ticket for the following day's draw as intended, instead of entering the 7 January rollover, he'd be £14,189,900 ($19,404,120) richer. As it happened, he was left with nothing.

So close, yet so far away.

Heart-breaking.
Kennedy News and Media

Freelance artist Rossi, from Bromley, said: "It's lucky to have the chance for the numbers to match but to not buy the ticket is the complete opposite. You feel like the most unlucky person in Britain at the time.

"It hit home in the next two days. I was contemplating all the things I could have done.

"I could buy my mum a new home and buy a Ferrari. It's hard not to think about. I'd have been set for life."

Yeah, that really is a lot to come to terms with. Rossi is now trying to convince himself that it may have been fate.

He's trying to resist letting it get him down.
Kennedy News and Media

He said: "If I bought it on the 5th instead of the 7th I would have matched it perfectly. If I bought the right ticket, I would have won £14 million just a few days after my friend said I was lucky.

"I've tried to forget about it because I think that's the best way to go about it. I don't want to live my life thinking about what could have been.

"There's been so many comments saying 'I couldn't live with myself', but I'm alright. It's happened, what can I do. It might have been fate."

He added that the 'crazy coincidence' has made it hard to concentrate on his uni deadline this month, but he said he hasn't been put off entering the lottery in future and will still buy a ticket 'every so often'.

Just make sure you double check the date first, alright mate?

Featured Image Credit: Kennedy News and Media

Topics: Euromillions

Jake Massey
Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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