EUROMILLIONS players have been urged to check their tickets NOW, as one lucky person could be in with the chance of winning the ￡25M jackpot.
The winning numbers were: 12, 17, 22, 33, 39
The Lucky Star Numbers were: 2, 12
This Saturday is the Double Rollover, where you could win a whopping ￡7.3M.
Remember that on draw day, you'll need to buy your ticket before 7.30pm. Results will be posted live on our blog.
Read our EuroMillions live blog for the latest updates...
Milica Cosic 8 minutes ago
Recap: EuroMillions results revealed
The jackpot for tonight was ￡25m. Check your tickets to see if you were lucky.
The winning numbers were: 12, 17, 22, 33, 39
The Lucky Star Numbers were: 2, 12
Milica Cosic 23 minutes ago
‘I’m not gullible enough to play the Lottery’
A MUM whose partner told her he wasn’t “gullible enough” to play the lottery has won ￡1m on the EuroMillions.
Holly Saul scooped the prize in the UK draw after her father-in-law reminded her to purchase a ticket.
The 29-year-old, from Cambridge, recalled bursting into tears of joy when she was told she had won.
The news followed just hours after her partner of eight years, Ben Lowther, 38, had said earlier: “I’m not gullible enough to play the lottery.”
Holly, who has two children, said: “We were both so shocked that I decided the only sensible option was to pour myself a G&T and Ben a Guinness.
“Then we sat in the garden for an hour staring into space, looking at each other and giggling like children. It was the most surreal and most wonderful time.
“What’s even better, I’ll forever tease Ben about his cheeky comment.”
Milica Cosic 38 minutes ago
Team GB star CJ Ujah stripped of National Lottery funding over failed drug test
CJ UJAH has been stripped of domestic athletics funding following his Olympics drugs violation.
The sprinter is suspended from the sport after testing positive for banned substances at the Tokyo Games in August.
The case has gone to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the GB team that won 4x100m relay silver behind Italy could be stripped of their medals.
That would mean heartache for Ujah’s Tokyo team-mates Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.
Londoner Ujah, 27, was on Olympic Relays funding – between ￡21,000 and ￡28,000 – over the past 12 months.
He insists he is not a cheat and denies any wrongdoing.
Milica Cosic 53 minutes ago
What’s happened to past EuroMillions winners?
Winners Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, who took home more than ￡148m in 2012.
Adrian, who has now split from Gillian, splurged ￡2.5million on two mansions in February 2020.
An anonymous UK ticket-holder claimed the ￡123million jackpot in June 2019.
Another anonymous UK ticket-holder won ￡121.3m in April 2018.
And Frances and Patrick Connolly, from County Armagh in Northern Ireland, won the ￡114.9m prize in January 2019.
An anonymous ticket-holder won ￡113m in October 2010.
Neil Trotter, from Coulsdon, South London, won ￡107.9m in March 2014
Dave and Angela Dawes, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, won ￡101m in October 2011.
Ade Goodchild, from Hereford, banked ￡71m in March 2019.
An anonymous ticket-holder bagged ￡35.2m in April 2019.
Milica Cosic Today, 22:30
What if…
Euromillions winner Adrian Bayford is “consumed with guilt” as his son fights for life after a horror quad bike smash, friends say.
The lad, 13, was hit by a car driven by his sister, 15, in the sprawling grounds of their Cambridgeshire mansion.
The Sun exclusively revealed details of the horror smash as the boy is fighting for his life in intensive care with his family at his bedside.
His sister raised the alarm after her brother was flung from his machine and through a fence.
It is understood the car and quad bike were gifts bought for the kids by former postie Adrian, 49.
Milica Cosic Today, 22:15
‘I sill shop in Primark despite winning ￡1.8m’
A NATIONAL Lottery winning dinner lady still lives in her council house, shops in Primark and drives a Kia despite bagging ￡1.8million.
Trish Emson, 51, explained money or her millionaire status did not change her or her partner Graham Norton, also 51, who still works as a decorator.
The down-to-earth pair have even managed to keep their teenage son Benjamin, 17, in check – and don’t even give him pocket money.
The modest mum, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said: “Being rich doesn’t make you posh or a better person.
“I don’t like showing off and bragging about money and I can’t be posh anyway.
“To look at me you wouldn’t think I was a millionaire, but if I have to dress up I feel fake, I prefer my jeans,” she told The Mirror.
Read the article in full here.
Milica Cosic Today, 22:00
National Lottery weekly timetable
Here’s a timetable for all UK lottery games including Lotto, EuroMillions and Set For Life.
There is a draw six nights a week.
It should be noted that there are no draws on Sundays.
Milica Cosic Today, 21:45
Lotto curse
A LOTTO winner blew his ￡6.5million fortune on cars, homes and dodgy business ventures before eventually being made homeless.
Lee Ryan, who hit the jackpot in 1995, said his win was nothing but a “curse”.
He scooped the whopping cash prize just weeks before going to jail for handling stolen cars.
But after years of high living and bad investments, the former millionaire was last known to be renting a two-room flat in south London and earning less than ￡10,000.
Ryan insisted in 2014 that he was happier being broke than he had ever been as a millionaire.
The ex-lotto winner, now in his 60s, scooped the stellar jackpot in March 1995 at the same time he was awaiting trial.
Milica Cosic Today, 21:30
Explained: The most common EuroMillions numbers
For EuroMillions, you pick five main numbers and two Lucky Stars, with draws taking place every Tuesday and Friday.
The five most drawn main numbers since EuroMillions launched in February 2004 are 23, 19, 44, 50 and 5
The two most drawn Lucky Stars are 2 and 8.
The least drawn numbers are 22, 33, 46, 18 and 47
The original Lucky Stars were 1 to 9 - of those, the least drawn are 4 and 1.
The more recently added Lucky Stars 10, 11 and 12 have been drawn less.
In the UK, a single entry to a EuroMillions draw costs ￡2.50.
EuroMillions is different to the main Lotto draw.
Milica Cosic Today, 21:15
How do I check the winning numbers?
You can view results for all the latest draws on the National Lottery website.
It will give you the option to view results for:
Lotto EuroMillions Thunderball Lotto Hotpicks EuroMillions Hotpicks Set For Life
As well as winning numbers for the last game, you can also view historic results going back six months.
Milica Cosic Today, 21:00
What are the odds of winning the EuroMillions jackpot?
The life-changing jackpot is hard to scoop. With between 80 to 100 million people purchasing a ticket for a EuroMillions draw each week, it proves stiff competition.
In order to win the cash prize, players need to match all five main numbers and both lucky star numbers.
But punters only have a 1 in 139,838, 160 chance of bagging the top prize.
Matching five numbers and one star has odds of 1 in 6,991,908.
There is a 1 in 22 chance of matching two numbers in the draw.
The approximate overall odds of winning a prize in EuroMillions are 1 in 13.
According to the EuroMillions website, the chances of winning the UK Millionaire Maker game can be estimated as 1 in 1,900,000.
But winning in this game depends entirely on the number of the payslips sold, so the odds therefore fluctuate.
Milica Cosic Today, 20:45
What happens to the EuroMillions money if no one claims it?
If no UK players come forward within 180 days then the prize money, plus all the interest it has generated while it is held in trust, goes to National Lottery-funded projects across the UK.
The National Lottery have said: “Our players change the lives of individuals as well as communities by raising, on average, over ￡33 million for National Lottery-funded projects every week.”
Milica Cosic Today, 20:33
EuroMillions results revealed
The jackpot for tonight was ￡25m. Good luck!
The winning numbers are: 12, 17, 22, 33, 39
The Lucky Star Numbers are: 2, 12
Milica Cosic Today, 20:29
EuroMillions results due
The EuroMillions winning numbers are due any moment now.
Follow our blog as we'll have the winning numbers here as soon as they're announced.
Milica Cosic Today, 20:28
Thunderball results now live
The Thunderball draw has been made.
The numbers are: 12, 17, 24, 26, 33.
The Thunderball is 14.
Milica Cosic Today, 20:20
Explained: Can I still buy a ticket?
The deadline for purchasing tickets for tonight's Euromillions draw was 7.30pm.
But don't worry if you missed out on tonight's deadline.
You'll be able to buy a ticket for the next draw after 9pm tonight. The next EuroMillions draw is on Tuesday.
Milica Cosic Today, 20:15
Not long to go
Only 15 minutes to go until the results of the HUGE ￡25M EuroMillions jackpot are announced.
Make sure you've got your ticket in front of you and are following the blog for all the latest updates.
Milica Cosic Today, 20:00
Lottery winners biggest prizes
The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of ￡5,874,778.
Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won ￡41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Haverhill, Suffolk, picked up ￡148,656,000 after they played the draw on August, 10, 2012, while Jane Park became Britain's youngest lottery winner when she scooped up ￡1 million in 2013.
The late-Colin Weir and his wife Christine scooped ￡161million in 2011, making them richer than the Beckhams.
While Adrian and Gillian Bayford scooped a €190m (￡148.7m) Euromillions jackpot on August 10, 2012.
Milica Cosic Today, 19:45
How to boost your chances of winning the EuroMillions
Some choose sentimental digits, others ask psychics, and there are those who pick with their eyes closed.
But what if there was a way to boost your chances of winning the EuroMillions with math?
The obvious method to enhance your prospects is to buy more tickets - but you still need to pick the right numbers.
By choosing a good range of the available numbers from 1-50, an extensive selection ups your chances.
Playing a mix of odd and even as well as high and low numbers gives you a good chance - as the first half of the draw is usually numbers between 1-25, while the rest are mostly from 26-50.
Dr John Haigh, emeritus reader in mathematics at the University of Sussex, said choosing six random numbers with a combined total of at least 200 will make the average above 30 - meaning the prize money will be shared amongst less people.
In the EuroMillions draws, on average there is consistently at least one number that repeats itself from the previous draw, around 43 per cent of the time.
So some Lotto experts believe looking at the past could help you earn in the future.
Another more simple method of increasing your chances is to pool your way to riches - by joining a syndicate and sharing the ticket cost with others.
Milica Cosic Today, 19:30
What are the odds of winning the EuroMillions jackpot?
The life-changing jackpot is hard to scoop. With between 80 to 100 million people purchasing a ticket for a EuroMillions draw each week, it proves stiff competition.
In order to win the cash prize, players need to match all five main numbers and both lucky star numbers.
But punters only have a 1 in 139,838, 160 chance of bagging the top prize.
Matching five numbers and one star has odds of 1 in 6,991,908.
There is a 1 in 22 chance of matching two numbers in the draw.
The approximate overall odds of winning a prize in EuroMillions are 1 in 13.
According to the EuroMillions website, the chances of winning the UK Millionaire Maker game can be estimated as 1 in 1,900,000.
But winning in this game depends entirely on the number of the payslips sold, so the odds therefore fluctuate.
Milica Cosic Today, 19:15
Number 27 most likely to help punter scoop a jackpot
National Lottery ball number 27 is the most likely to help punters win a jackpot, researchers say.
It has made more appearances than any other in 3,071 draws in the past ten years.
The number came up 399 times in the UK National Lottery, Thunderball, EuroMillions and Irish Lotto.
That is 141 more times than number 57, the unluckiest number, which was drawn just 258 times.
The second luckiest is 54, which appeared 387 times. It was followed by 29, 42, 52 and 58 in joint third on 381 times.
The next luckiest was number 20 with 378. Then came 23, with 372.
Milica Cosic Today, 19:00
Some star signs are luckier than others
Well, according to the stars some signs are luckier than others, so read on and see if you should pop out and buy that winning lotto ticket. It could be you!
Leo – Oh, Leo we knew you’d be one of the lucky ones. You always look good, have a string of admirers and just tend to always be prowling on the bright side of the street.
Virgo – It’s no coincidence that planner extraordinaire is one of the luckiest signs of the zodiac. Virgos only become successful because they put in the hours and werk, girl.
Scorpio – Magnanimous Scorpio has definitely got it going on when it comes to luck. They’ll often find themselves in the right place at the right time as if by magic, much to the annoyance of some less fortunate souls.
Milica Cosic Today, 18:45
Biggest lotto winners in history ￡1.308 billion (Powerball) on January 13 2016 in the US, for which three winning tickets were sold, remains history’s biggest lottery prize ￡1.267 billion (Mega Million) a winner from South Carolina took their time to come forward to claim their prize in March 2019 not long before the April deadline ￡633.76 million (Powerball draw) from a winner from Wisconsin ￡625.76 million (Powerball) Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts claimed the jackpot in August 2017 ￡575.53 million (Powerball) A lucky pair of winners scooped the jackpot in Iowa and New York in October 2018
Milica Cosic Today, 18:30
Odds of winning the Millionaire Maker?
According to the EuroMillions website, there is a 1 in 1,900,000 chance that a player could win the Millionaire Maker game on a Tuesday.
This shrinks to 1 in approximately 2,250,000 if there is a rollover – meaning no one has won the previous draw’s jackpot.
On a Friday, it’s estimated that there is a 1 in 2,950,000 chance of winning a guaranteed ￡1million.
If there is a quadruple rollover, the odds could fall to 1 in 3,400,000.
Winning the game depends on the number of payslips sold so the odds fluctuate from game-to-game.
The odds can also change if there is a special event.
In March 2019, EuroMillions created 40 UK millionaires in a one-off special draw.
Milica Cosic Today, 18:15
Explained: When will the EuroMillions results be out?
The EuroMillions can be played on Tuesday's or Friday's – or both days if you're feeling lucky.
Tonight's draw is worth a whopping ￡25M.
The results of the draw will be revealed around 8.30pm here on our blog.
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