EuroMillions ticket wins life-changing £210million jackpot, check your numbers
One ticket holder has won the EuroMillions draw on Tuesday, August 19, where a whopping £210m jackpot was up for grabs.
Tonight's whopping jackpot has been won
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One lucky ticket holder has won the eyewatering EuroMillions jackpot tonight, August 19, where an estimated £210m prize was up for grabs. The jackpot winner is from France, organisers said.
A British person also became the UK's newest millionaire tonight with the National Lottery Millionaire Maker. Tonight's code is: XMPX55830.
Seven people won the second EuroMillions prize tonight, matching five numbers and one star. The estimated prize for this result is £130,554.30, reports The Mirror. The winning numbers for tonight's EuroMillions were 24, 31, 34, 41 and 43, with the Lucky Stars 06 and 08.
Seven people also matched five numbers, winning an estimated prize of £13,561.20. Besides the massive jackpot and other considerable winnings, numerous other people scooped up a cash prize this evening.
78 people matched four numbers and two stars, winning a prize of £844.70, and there were 1,622,924 people who matched two numbers and won £2.50.
Andy Carter, the senior winner's advisor at Allwyn, said tonight's jackpot has the ability to transform the winner's life.
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He said: "Tuesday's jackpot has the ability to transform not just the winner's life, but the life of the friends and family around them.
"So, make sure you get a ticket to be in with a chance of banking Britain's biggest ever win."
The jackpot would 'transform the winner's life'
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In other EuroMillions news, there were some 2.89m winners in Friday's draw.
It is estimated that 34.5 per cent of prizes were won in the UK with 2.3 per cent being won in Ireland.
A lucky player in Ireland pocketed a staggering £213.6m back in June, and a few month ago in April, another player in France won £25.6m.
In March, a huge £209.3m jackpot was won by a ticket holder in Austria.
Recently, a winning EuroMillions ticket was also bought in Scotland, but a week after the draw, they were yet to claim their reward.
Lottery bosses revealed at the time that the winning ticket hadn't been claimed after it was bought in Fife on June 13.
But if you bought a ticket for tonight's draw, it's worth checking if you're one of the lucky winners.
How to check your numbers
You can find your EuroMillions numbers to see if you have won a prize. All you need to do if follow these steps:
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Put your five main numbers and both Lucky Star numbers into the Checker box on the EuroMillions website
if you have multiple lines of numbers to check press '+Add Line' as many times as you need to enter all of your numbers
Once you have entered your numbers, hit 'Check.' Your entered numbers can then be verified against all draw results for the chosen date period and any winning matches will be highlighted
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