The biggest lottery prize the UK has ever seen is still up for grabs after Friday’s EuroMillions draw had no winners.
The jackpot on Tuesday is an estimated £208million and would be the largest prize the UK has seen.
The eye-watering sum would see the winner pip the likes of Harry Styles and Rory McIlroy on the wealth scale.
Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at Allwyn, said: ‘Tuesday sees the £208 million EuroMillions jackpot still up for grabs.
‘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 main EuroMillions winning numbers were 20, 21, 29, 30, 35 and the Lucky Stars were 02, 12.
One UK ticket-holder became a millionaire after matching five main numbers and one Lucky Star, winning £2.02 million.
The biggest lottery prize the UK has ever seen is still up for grabs after Friday’s EuroMillions draw had no winners
The jackpot on Tuesday is an estimated £208 million and would see the winner pip the likes of Harry Styles and Rory McIlroy on the wealth scale
No players won the £500,000 Thunderball jackpot by matching the five Thunderball numbers, 03, 14, 31, 32, 34, and the Thunderball number 06.
An anonymous UK ticket holder won the existing record jackpot of £195 million on July 19 2022, while just two months earlier, Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, won £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket for the draw on May 10 2022.
The UK’s third biggest win came after an anonymous ticket-holder scooped the £177 million jackpot in the draw on November 26 last year, while the biggest this year was £83 million in January.
MailOnline reported in April that a grieving son found his mother’s winning lottery ticket three days after she had died.
Liam Carter, 34, found the EuroMillions ticket folded inside an envelope, which his mother Anne and avid lottery player had heartbreakingly scrawled on the front ‘Sat draw – don’t forget!’.
She died on April 16, aged 67, just two days before her winning numbers came up having played every week and ‘never winning anything big in her life’.
Mr Carter, originally from Hampshire but now living in Aberdeen, discovered the folded envelope inside her kitchen drawer, where his loving mother usually kept her tickets.
It meant Anne had won a payout of £18,403.
Liam Carter (above) found a EuroMillions ticket folded inside an envelope, which his mother Anne (pictured) had heartbreakingly scrawled on the front ‘Sat draw – don’t forget!’
Mr Carter had almost ignored the ticket but said ‘something told me to check’.
‘I scanned it using the National Lottery app, and it said it was a winning ticket — but I’d have to call the lottery line,’ he added
He phoned the line last Saturday and ‘just froze’ when he was told of how much the winning ticket was worth.
Mr Carter said: ‘I must’ve gone quiet on the phone. It didn’t feel real. She never won anything big in her life — and now this.’
He added: ‘She always said if she ever won, the money would be for me,’ he said. ‘And even though she never knew about this win, it really felt like something she left behind for me. Like one final gift.’
He plans to use the money towards a deposit on a flat, something he says his mother always wanted him to achieve.
‘She always said if she ever won, the money would be for me,’ he said.
‘And even though she never knew about this win, it really felt like something she left behind for me. Like one final gift.’
The ticket had matched five main numbers — 20, 27, 35, 39 and 48 — just missing the two Lucky Stars, 03 and 08.
