The biggest lottery prize the UK has ever seen could be won today.
Friday’s National Lottery EuroMillions draw had no winners, meaning the £199million jackpot rolled over to Tuesday again.
Today’s jackpot is so large that a single ticket-holder would be wealthier than Dua Lipa, Adele and Spider-Man star Tom Holland.
National Lottery says there will be 13 ‘guaranteed millionaires’.
How much is the EuroMillions jackpot tonight?
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A whopping €250 million (£208million).
Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at Allwyn, said: ‘A win of this magnitude would create the biggest National Lottery winner this country has ever seen – making a single UK winner instantly richer than the likes of Dua Lipa and Harry Kane while also landing them at the number one spot on the National Lottery’s biggest wins list.
‘The EuroMillions jackpot is now capped, so any money that would have gone into increasing the jackpot now boosts prizes in the next winning prize tier, meaning that we could see multiple UK players banking huge prizes for matching just the five main numbers and one Lucky Star.’
The largest win on Friday was a Briton becoming a millionaire after matching five main numbers and one Lucky Star, bagging £2.02million.
No players won the £500,000 Thunderball jackpot by matching the five Thunderball numbers, 03, 14, 31, 32, 34, and the Thunderball number 06.
Previous British winners include those who scooped £83,000,000 in January and the £65,000,000 jackpot in February.
How to enter the EuroMillions lottery
You enter five numbers and two Lucky Stars for each line you play, or you choose a Lucky Dip for five random numbers.
Up to seven lines can be played on a single slip, costing £2.70 per line.
You can choose which draws you play on – either or both Tuesday and Friday – as well as how many weeks for.
Keep your ticket safe if you bought it at a retailer. There’s space on the slip to jot down your name, address and signature, which prevents someone else from stealing it and claiming any cash you win.
Tickets bought online are stored on your account.
When the draw happens at 8.45pm tonight, you can either tune in online or visit the EuroMillions results page.
Odds of winning EuroMillions
The odds of scoring a prize in EuroMillions are 13 to one.
They’re this large because there are 13 prize tiers – the odds of winning the EuroMillions jackpot are 1 in 139,838,160, according to Euro-Millions.
But winning the lottery isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be, as experts previously told Metro.
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