Five consecutive rollovers have hiked the EuroMillions jackpot to £166,000,000, one of the highest ever up for grabs.
A total of 2,393,415 people won prizes in Tuesday’s EuroMillions draw – more than 700,000 of them in the UK.
But none of them bagged the £151million lottery jackpot, meaning it has rolled over for a fifth time in a row.
It started as £14million on Tuesday, March 4. Heading into this Friday’s draw, the jackpot now stands at £166million.
Should anyone in the UK win it, it would be the country’s sixth biggest lottery win of all time.
One lucky ticketholder won £177,000,000 when the EuroMillions numbers were drawn last November.
It instantly became the third biggest win in history.
The record was set, broken, and nearly broken again, over a four-month period in 2022.
Joe and Jess Thwaite started the record-breaking trend thanks to a EuroMillions Lucky Dip ticket bought on the The National Lottery app, ‘because it’s easier’, on the very day of the May 10 draw.
The Gloucestershire couple won more than £184million. ‘I saw how much and I didn’t know what to do’, communications sales engineer Joe said.
‘I couldn’t go back to sleep, I didn’t want to wake Jess up so I just laid there for what seemed like forever.
‘I spent some time searching for property with no budget limit, which was a novelty!’
Just two months later, an anonymous ticketholder won nearly £198million – the highest amount ever won.
Another two months later, a £172million jackpot was claimed by a lucky ticketholder, who chose to stay anonymous.
Most prizes are far from as lucrative. More than half the victorious ticketholders won just £3.10 in the latest draw on Tuesday.
One person in the UK won £28,000. Another two won £241,000.
Just a single ticketholder bagged the £1million UK Millionaire Maker prize.
The small-time winners may even be breathing a sigh of relief given the events following a life-changing jackpot aren’t always good.
When Adrian and Gillian Bayford won £148million in 2012, they were the third biggest winners of all time – a title that swiftly withered away, much like their happiness.
They each pursued a string of turbulent relationships, with Gillian convicted of threatening an ex-boyfriend, and Adrian turning to a diet of 50 Cornish pasties delivered to his mansion each week to cope with loneliness.
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