The massive EuroMillions Lottery jackpot has been won. The total jackpot was worth £159,559,034, and two winning tickets have split this amount. It seems that there are no UK-winning tickets for the main prize. Two British players did, however, manage to get five numbers and one lucky star.
EuroMillions paid out £7,730,837.50 to 5,178,161 lottery players in the last draw. There is a consolation prize for UK lottery players as the Millionaire Raffle portion of the game has created a new Millionaire. The winning alphanumeric characters are RWR658214.
Winning lottery ticket bought in Ireland
Reports are emerging that one of the winning lottery tickets was bought in Ireland, and a Belgian Lottery player has won the other half of this formidable Lottery jackpot. Half of the prize money in Euros is worth €94,000,000.
Please ensure that you check this part of the Lottery ticket as a winning Millionaire Raffle ticket has recently exceeded the time limit to be claimed, and an unlucky lottery player has lost the money to the Good Causes Fund.
The two British players who managed to get five numbers and two lucky stars each get a massive £246,015.90. In total, there were eight players across Europe to match this result. Twenty players managed to match 5 numbers, and each gets £32,802.10, which is a fairly decent amount.
The next draw on Friday will see the lottery revert to the default lottery total of £12,000,000, which is a bit deflating after trying to win a near-record lottery jackpot. Lottery players do have many lottery games to target this Friday. There is also the Euro Jackpot Lottery which is currently worth €26,000,000 in prize money.
This will have to console all of us Lottery fanatics until the next time there is a huge lottery jackpot on offer.