IN it's 70's heyday, Spot the Ball was played by more than 3 million a week, interest fell after the National Lottery was launched in 1994 now across the country just 14,000 people the game and the £250,000 jackpot hasn't been won since 2004.
To win, a player has to mark the exact position of a ball missing from a live-action football photograph
This has proved more difficult than it seems and the last person to pin the ball and win the jackpot was 69-year old Irene Robertson of South Yorkshire who received a tip from beyond the grave from her dead mother.
Irene Robertson of Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, said after winning that her mother Alice had told her at a seance: "Don't forget the coupon." just before she had planned to stop her £3 weekly flutter on the game after 40 years of playing.
A Football Pools spokesman told the Daily Mail: "Players of the Spot the Ball game have won £16million in prizes over the last ten years.
"The top prize is won by guessing the exact centre of the ball but this has not happened since 2004, reflecting the fact that fewer people play the game.
'However, the £16million has been paid out to weekly winners for other prizes on offer, including for being closest to the centre of the ball."
