£184m Will a Briton win tonight’s record EuroMillions pot?
AS prizes go, tonight’s EuroMillions jackpot takes some beating – an astonishing £184million, making it the biggest ever.
And although the winner may not have much use for 2,830 Range Rovers, it must be reassuring to know you could buy them if you fancied it.
The huge sum equates to almost 6,000 average UK salaries and would make the winner wealthier than A-list stars Adele or Daniel Craig overnight.
The total is £14million more than Britain’s current record EuroMillions prize, which was won by an anonymous player in October 2019. An unnamed French player won the previous highest jackpot of €200million (£183million) last December.
A sole winner tonight could afford a life of unimaginable luxury, able to buy supercars, yachts and private islands on a whim.
Their wealth would equal the value of hundreds of London homes, or spending 105 years in a suite at Claridges in London, one of the world’s most lavish hotels.
The jackpot grew from around £172million on Friday after no one picked the main winning numbers of 01, 10, 23, 42, 46 and lucky stars 03 and 05.
Andy Carter, the senior winners’ adviser at the National Lottery, said: ‘If one UK winner banks the lot they would instantly become the UK’s biggest ever National
Lottery winner.’ Players must buy tickets by 7.30pm tonight, with results due on the National Lottery website at around 9.30pm.
British would-be winners must see off players from nine other nations including
Spain, Portugal and France – the only one to have more top prize winners than the UK.
Camelot, which runs the National Lottery, says it has distributed £1.2billion to good causes in the UK to tackle the impact of the pandemic – or £30million every week. The EuroMillions competition was launched in February 2004 as a collaboration between France’s Francaise des Jeux, Loterias y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and Camelot in the UK.