Euromillions £25m jackpot winner announced – and they’re British | UK | News
For the second Friday in a row, a single UK ticket-holder has won the £25million EuroMillions jackpot, as announced by The National Lottery.
The eye-watering October 10 jackpot’s winning numbers were 06, 07, 17, 20, and 21, and the Lucky Star numbers were 01 and 10.
The winner matched all these numbers, while three individuals were able to match five numbers and one lucky star to win a whopping £40,638.50. Another five people matched just the five numbers and won £8,036.60 each.
Players of the National Lottery are being urged to check their tickets, with two millionaire jackpot prizes from last night still unclaimed.
This October 10 draw made it the second consecutive Friday night that a UK ticket-holder bagged the top prize, and the fourth time this year it went to a UK ticket-holder. Last Friday saw the £26m jackpot won by a single UK ticket-holder, while another player bagged a massive £65m on Valentine’s Day, and a third winner scooped up £83m back in January.
The senior winners’ adviser at Allwyn (the operator of The National Lottery), Andy Carter, said: “Wow, it’s been an exciting night for EuroMillions players, as a single UK ticket-holder has landed the amazing £25m jackpot. That’s two UK EuroMillions jackpot wins in the space of a week, after another lucky player scooped the incredible £26M jackpot in last Friday’s draw (October 3).
“Players are now urged to check their tickets and to give us a call if they think they are tonight’s lucky winner.”
Every EuroMillions ticket also bags its purchaser an automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker, which guarantees at least one player will pocket an incredible £1million in each and every draw. The UK Millionaire Maker Selection winner last night was TGXG94724.
These results come after the National Lottery’s live stream was interrupted last night due to technical issues. EuroMillions draws are run and held by the French operator of the National Lottery, La Française des Jeux, in Paris.
A ticket for the immensely popular EuroMillions draw which takes place every Tuesday and Friday, costs £2.50. Purchasing a EuroMillions ticket ensures automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker draw which creates new UK millionaires each week. The overall jackpot prize can go as high as £167million.
On Saturday, October 4, one ticket-holder scooped the entire £10,633,323 Lotto jackpot by matching all six main numbers: 06, 08, 12, 33, 49, and 59. Since the winning numbers were all purchased in-store, National Lottery players are being urged to carefully check their physical tickets to see if they’re the lucky winner.
The EuroMillions draw has been around for over two decades, with the first draw having taken place on February 7, 2004, by three organisations: The Camelot in the UK, France’s Française des Jeux, and Loterías y Apuestas del Estado in Spain.
In the past, one of the UK’s most massive prizes was up for grabs on December 4, 2020, with a staggering £175million EuroMillions jackpot on the line that would make its recipient even wealthier than Adele.
Some of the other winners of the massive jackpot were Chris and Colin Weir from Largs, Scotland, who bagged a monumental £161,653,000 in the July 12, 2011, draw.
Gillian and Adrian Bayford from Suffolk’s Haverhill netted a colossal £148,656,000 after winning the August, 10, 2012, EuroMillions draw, while Jane Park went on to become Britain’s youngest lottery winner at just 17 years of age after scooping up a cool £1 million in 2013.
Yet another UK winner, who wished to remain anonymous, won the life altering jackpot of £170,221,000 in the October 8, 2019, draw.
The odds of winning any EuroMillions prize are 1 in 13 while the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 139 million.
