EuroMillions player could find themselves richer than Adele or Anthony Joshua today if they scoop £208million jackpot on traditionally unlucky Friday 13th
The biggest lottery prize the UK has seen could be won in today's EuroMillions draw - making the winners richer than popstar Adele or boxer Anthony Joshua.
Today's draw falls on traditionally unlucky Friday 13th and has an estimated jackpot of £208million.
According to Allwyn, the National Lottery operator, it would be the largest prize awarded in the UK.
There will also be 13 guaranteed £1million prizes won by UK players in the special EuroMillions Millionaire Maker.
The draw comes on this year's only Friday 13th - a day which is shrouded in superstition and considered unlucky by many.
However, despite the perceived unfortune, it may be your lucky day.
If won by a single-ticket holder, the jackpot prize will see the winner pocket enough to to put them ahead of music superstar Adele who is thought to be worth £175million.
It would also make the winner twice as rich as Sir Andy Murray on £100million, leave £75million England captain Harry Kane in the dust and just head off Anthony Joshua with his £195million fortune.
Andy Carter, Senior Winners' Advisor at Allwyn, operator of The National Lottery, said, 'Friday the 13th might have spooky connotations, but for some lucky players, it could be the day their lives change forever.
'With 13 guaranteed new millionaires, and potentially the nation's biggest ever National Lottery winner, it's the perfect time to defy superstition and take a chance. The unluckiest day of the year, might just become a day you'll never forget.'
The total prize money has now been capped, meaning prize pots in the next winning tier will be boosted.
In the past two EuroMillions draws this month, UK players have won more than £4.5M and £2M for matching only the five main numbers and one lucky star.
He added: '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.'
In Tuesday's draw one UK player became a millionaire after matching five main numbers and one lucky star, winning £4.53 million.
The main EuroMillions winning numbers were 19, 36, 39, 40, 45 and the lucky stars were 05, 06.
One player won the £500,000 Thunderball jackpot by matching the five Thunderball numbers, 07, 15, 24, 25, 32, and the Thunderball number 04.
In the past two EuroMillions draws this month, UK players have won more than £4.5M and £2M for matching only the five main numbers and one lucky star
WHAT COULD YOU BUY WITH £208MILLION?
The 'world's most expensive penthouse', owned by property tycoon Nick Candy at One Hyde Park in central London, made available on the market for £175million.
The costliest ever Rolls-Royce, the £20million Rolls-Royce Arcadia Droptail - that is, ten of them.
The next James Bond movie - the last instalment, No Time To Die, was budgeted at £184million.
Covering the estimated £208million cost of the ongoing Covid inquiry.
Spain and Barcelona's Lamine Yamal, 17, judged by analysts to be the world's most valuable footballer at £200million - ahead of England and Real Madrid's £175million-priced Jude Bellingham.
Enough £52 75cl bottles of Moët & Chandon Champagne to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool and about half of another one.
218,947,368 Mars Bars, at 95p apiece in UK supermarkets.
The EuroMillions jackpot is capped once it reaches €250million (approximately £208million).
Once at cap and assuming it continues not to be won, it will stay at €250million for a further four draws until it must be won in the fifth draw.
In the 'Must Be Won' draw, if no ticket matches all five main numbers and two Lucky Stars, the entire jackpot prize will roll down into the prize tier where there is at least one winner.
This means we could see many multi-millionaires created.
An anonymous UK ticket holder won the existing record jackpot of £195million 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 £177million jackpot in the draw on November 26 last year, while the biggest this year was £83million in January.
The latest prospects come after a son found his mother's winning EuroMillions lottery ticket tucked away with a heartbreaking message just days after her death in April.
Liam Carter, 34, originally from Hampshire but now living in Aberdeen, was sorting through his mother Anne's possessions after she died aged 67 when he found the ticket.
Mr Carter discovered a folded envelope inside her kitchen drawer, where Anne usually kept her tickets.
She had written on the outside of the envelope: 'Sat draw - don't forget!'
Mr Carter said: 'I nearly ignored it, but 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 phoned the line and was told his mother, who played the lottery every week, had matched five of the numbers from the draw and had only missed the missing stars - meaning she had won a payout of £18,403.
A spokesperson from Playcasino.com said: 'Liam's story shows that the lottery isn't just about money - it's about meaning. In this case, a forgotten ticket became something powerful and emotional.
'It's a reminder that even the smallest moments can carry the biggest impact.'
BRITAIN'S BIGGEST LOTTERY WINNERS
An unknown UK ticket-holder was handed the country's record for a EuroMillions jackpot of £195million on July 19 2022.
That was even more than the prize landed by Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, when they scooped a then-peak £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket for the National Lottery draw on May 10 that same year.
Mr Thwaite, a communications sales engineer, told how his wife who ran a hairdressing salon was asleep when he noticed the winning numbers on the National Lottery app - and he opted not to wake her while browsing for potential new homes.
And last December it was revealed a British participant had become the country's third biggest National Lottery winner of all time after hitting a jackpot worth £177million.
The single ticket-holder, who chose to stay anonymous, came forward to claim the EuroMillions jackpot after the draw on Tuesday November 26.
Among the big winners who did agree to go public with their good fortune were Colin and Chris Weir, from Ayrshire, who were handed £161million in 2011.
Colin died aged 71 eight years later after getting through just half of his jackpot, with most of it having been shared between family, friends, and charities.
The EuroMillions draw is a biweekly lottery in which members of the public in the UK and eight other European countries participate - with draws held on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
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