There were no winners of Friday's £46 million EuroMillions jackpot - meaning a bigger prize is up for grabs next time.
Tuesday night's prize will be a whopping £55million. The National Lottery added that no one had secured the top prize of £500,000 on the Thunderball.
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The National Lottery has announced that there were no winners for today's EuroMillions, or for the Thunderball.
The transnational jackpot will now rollover to an estimated £55million for Tuesday night's game, which we will be blogging live as it happens.
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The draw rolls over to Tuesday
Back in November 2023, it was reported that a couple quit work to build their dream home having won £1 million on EuroMillions. John and Patricia Gill scooped the prize on Christmas Day in 2015, and are now converting a detached property.
Patricia said: “The win has bought us time – the time to do so much with our lives. John is now in the process of building our dream home.”
The couple are doing the bulk of the work on the former bungalow themselves. They hope to move in in the spring.
Patricia, 60, said her husband, who has an engineering background, has always been “handy”. She added: “He prefers to do it himself. Now that he has retired, it gives him something to get his teeth into.”
She added: “I brush up, I make the tea, I do the sandwich run, but I’ve also been sanding down the door frames, so anything I can do I will get stuck in. I like to keep it clean and tidy because if you are working in a tidy environment it is so much nicer.”
John, 64, said doing the work himself has “helped keep the cost down”. “I did all the initial drawings and then gave it to a guy to draw up the plans,” he said.
"I’m doing anything and everything. All the plumbing, the central heating - but I won’t be fitting the boiler.
One lucky Brit finally came forward to claim a huge EuroMillions prize for £1million after Camelot urged players for weeks to check their ticket.
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The UK Millionaire Maker prize-winning ticket was bought in North Lanarkshire in October 2023. For every EuroMillions played, players in the UK are automatically given a EuroMillions Millionaire Maker code printed on their ticket. The claim was confirmed today by Camelot, which operates The National Lottery, and it will now go through a process of verification to ensure all terms and conditions have been met.
When the prize has been validated it will be paid, and then the ticket-holder will decide whether to publicly reveal their identity or not. Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said, “We are absolutely delighted that this lucky ticket-holder has come forward and claimed their prize, what a way to start 2024 - just imagine the possibilities for them this year!
“It’s now our job to support the ticket-holder through the process - we support every National Lottery winner in the same way - and we will do this as quickly as possible to ensure they can very soon begin to enjoy their life-changing win.” With all National Lottery draws players have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim their prize if they have the winning ticket."
Tonight's winning EuroMillions numbers have been released.
The main numbers are: 04, 07, 18, 39, 50 and the two Lucky Stars 03 and 08
The Thunderball numbers :04, 18, 28, 34, 38, and the Thunderball is 10
Entrants to the transnational lottery must be at least 18 years old and buy their tickets in one of the nine European countries.
Though entrants must be in one of the countries, there is no restriction on the buyer's nationality. Non-residents are welcome to play as long as they meet the age requirement.
The jackpot begins at €17 million, which is different in Sterling depending on the exchange rate on draw day, and can increase up to a maximum value of €240 million.
EuroMillions is a lottery played across nine European countries - the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland. The game launched on 7th February, 2004, and has now had over 1,000 draws.
EuroMillions: This draw is set to take place at 8,45pm tonight.
Thunderball: This draw will go live at 8pm
