I won £10k playing the Mail’s Lucky Squares!
LADY Luck struck for a retired police worker when he won £10,000 in the Daily Mail’s bonus prize draw.
Peter Schofield, 68, from East Yorkshire, was the first name drawn from more than 27,000 entries on Saturday.
He said was ‘shocked’ to be told he had landed the top prize because ‘I don’t normally win anything’. And he added that he and his wife Angela, 61, a retired sheltered housing manager, planned to spend some of the money on home renovations and to put the rest away for a ‘rainy day’.
The Mail has launched the new £1million Lucky Squares game to replace our daily lottery game.
You can win a cash prize by matching part of your Unique Number printed on the back page of each day’s Mail with the numbered squares on a game grid printed in the newspaper. If the squares you match contain a full set of coloured shapes, you win.
There are many chances to win every day, and the jackpot is £5,000. On Saturday 24 readers won prizes between £25 and £500.
We’re also giving away guaranteed bonuses of £10,000 every day this week. Here, players have to
‘I don’t normally win anything’
match a single two-digit number from the Unique Number with the number of one or more squares containing a £ sign in the grid.
Mr Schofield, a member of the My Mail loyalty scheme, who buys the paper regularly, sent his entry by email. ‘I knew it wasn’t a windup when I received the phone call from the Daily Mail on Saturday, because I hadn’t told anyone I had entered – not even my wife,’ he said. ‘But I was gobsmacked to win this money. When I told my wife, she thought I was joking.’
Mr Schofield said his success has spurred him on to take part in further draws with the Mail, which he reads because it ‘isn’t frightened to publish difficult stories’ holding the powerful to account.
Roland Agambar, chief marketing officer of Mail Newspapers, said: ‘We all need a little boost to our finances and our spirits in January. That’s why we launched this fantastic game.’