UK lottery jackpot reaches record-breaking £208m
UK lottery jackpot reaches record-breaking £208m
The jackpot on Friday would be the largest prize the UK has seen
A huge jackpot is up for grabs on the National Lottery Euromillions
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The largest ever National Lottery prize in the UK is up for grabs this Friday. The EuroMillions jackpot will be an estimated £208 million, after no player scooped Tuesday's top prize. The winning numbers that came out were 12, 15, 38, 47, 48.
The jackpot on Friday would be the largest prize the UK has seen, National Lottery operator Allwyn said. Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at Allwyn said it could be potentially the biggest ever win seen in the UK.
He said "We are now on the verge of potentially creating the biggest National Lottery winner this country has ever seen - making a single UK winner instantly richer than the likes of Adele and Dua Lipa while also landing them at the number one spot on The National Lottery's biggest wins list."
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.
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