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Wales Online
3 days ago
- General
- Wales Online
Live Lotto results for Saturday, June 7: National Lottery winning numbers from tonight's draw
The winning numbers from tonight's rollover £3.9m Lotto draw are below. The jackpot for tonight's Thunderball draw is £500,000. The winning National Lottery Lotto numbers are drawn at 8pm while the National Lottery Thunderball numbers are drawn shortly after. We'll have those results live below. It follow's Friday's huge EuroMillions jackpot of £208m - the largest ever National Lottery prize in the UK. 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 National Lottery says it creates over nine million winners each week, with on average seven new millionnaires. The UK National Lottery was first drawn on November 19, 1994. Half of all money spent by players goes to the prize fund with 28% to good causes, 12% to the Government as duty, 5% to retailers, and 5% which has operated the lottery throughout its history. Since it was set up, it has awarded more than £95 billion in prizes and created more than 7,400 millionnaires.
Sky News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News
EuroMillions: UK's biggest lottery prize is still up for grabs
There is still the chance for someone to secure the biggest lottery prize the UK has ever seen, after Friday's EuroMillions draw had no winners. The jackpot had rolled over to an estimated £208m, after Tuesday's £199m draw - which also would have been a record-breaking amount - had no winners. The winner would instantly become richer than Adele and Harry Styles, while also bagging the top spot on the National Lottery's biggest wins list. Housing raffles take UK by storm - how likely are you to win? Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at Allwyn, said: "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. "We could see multiple UK players banking huge prizes for matching just the five main numbers and one Lucky Star." The previous largest prize pot was won by an anonymous UK ticket-holder, who took home £195m on 19 July 2022. Just two months earlier, Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, won £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket. At the time, Joe was a communications sales engineer, and Jess ran a hairdressing salon with her sister. Mr Thwaite said he woke up at 5am as usual, and checked his phone to see an email saying, "Good news, you have won a prize". But he did not immediately wake his wife, choosing to let her sleep in. "I saw how much and I didn't know what to do," Mr Thwaite said. "I couldn't go back to sleep, I didn't want to wake Jess up, so I just laid there for what seemed like forever. I spent some time searching for property with no budget limit, which was a novelty!" When his wife woke up, she assumed the National Lottery app was wrong. 1:24 In February last year, Richard and Debbie Nuttall were revealed as the UK winners of a £61m EuroMillions jackpot - who at first thought they had only won £2.60. The couple from Lancashire split the £123m prize with a winner in Spain.
Wales Online
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
You could win £208m on Euromillions tonight and become the biggest winner the UK has ever seen
You could win £208m on Euromillions tonight and become the biggest winner the UK has ever seen Tonight's EuroMillions jackpot will be the biggest prize ever in the UK Joe and Jess Thwaite won a record-breaking jackpot in 2022 (Image: PA ) This Friday, lottery enthusiasts have the chance to win the largest ever National Lottery prize in the UK, with the EuroMillions jackpot estimated to reach an astonishing £208 million after there was no winner for Tuesday's top prize. The numbers that emerged in the last draw were 12, 15, 38, 47, 48, 5*, 7*. If the extraordinary sum is won on Friday, it would surpass any previous payouts, setting a record for the biggest jackpot in the UK, according to Allwyn, the National Lottery operator. Andy Carter, Allwyn's senior winners' adviser, highlighted the magnitude of the potential windfall. 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." The current highest jackpot was claimed by an undisclosed UK ticket holder who took home £195 million on July 19, 2022. For money-saving tips, sign up to our Money newsletter here . Before this remarkable win, Joe and Jess Thwaite from Gloucester became multi-millionaires with their £184,262,899 Lucky Dip victory on May 10, 2022. Article continues below The couple, a communications sales engineer and a hairdresser, said when they won they were planning to take their two children on a family holiday to Hawaii. Another anonymous individual became the third-largest UK lottery winner after securing a £177 million jackpot on November 26 of the previous year, while January of this year witnessed the biggest win so far this year at £83 million. How to enter To be in with a chance of taking home £208 million you must head to the EuroMillions website and pick five numbers from 1-50 and two lucky stars from 1-12. Alternatively, you can try the lucky dip option and it will randomly select the numbers for you instead. The EuroMillions draw happens every Tuesday and Friday and you can play up to seven lines of numbers and buy up to ten play slips at a time. You must buy a ticket before 7.30pm tonight to be in with a chance of taking home the life-changing prize fund. Entries start at £2.50. Article continues below If you want more games to play, there is also Lotto every Saturday and Wednesday and Set For Life every Monday and Thursday. The Thunderball draw (which also takes place tonight, as well as every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,) has a £500,000 top prize.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
EuroMillions: Single ticket-holder could win UK's biggest lottery prize tonight
A single ticket-holder could win the biggest lottery prize the UK has ever seen if they match the right numbers in tonight's EuroMillions draw. The jackpot has rolled over to an estimated £208m, after Tuesday's £199m draw - which also would have been a record-breaking amount - had no winners. The winner would instantly become richer than Adele and Dua Lipa, while also bagging the top spot on the National Lottery's biggest wins list. Housing raffles take UK by storm - how likely are you to win? Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at Allwyn, said: "We are now on the verge of potentially creating the biggest National Lottery winner this country has ever seen." The previous largest prize pot was won by an anonymous UK ticket-holder, who took home £195m on 19 July 2022. Read more from Sky News: Just two months earlier, Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, won £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket. At the time, Joe was a communications sales engineer, and Jess ran a hairdressing salon with her sister. Mr Thwaite said he woke up at 5am as usual, and checked his phone to see an email saying, "Good news, you have won a prize". But he did not immediately wake his wife, choosing to let her sleep in. "I saw how much and I didn't know what to do," Mr Thwaite said. "I couldn't go back to sleep, I didn't want to wake Jess up, so I just laid there for what seemed like forever. I spent some time searching for property with no budget limit, which was a novelty!" When his wife woke up, she assumed the National Lottery app was wrong. Read more:Man celebrates £5.2m win with surprising first purchaseTrainee gas engineer, 20, wins £7.5m - but won't quit work In February last year, were revealed as the UK winners of a £61m EuroMillions jackpot - who at first thought they had only won £2.60. The couple from Lancashire split the £123m prize with a winner in Spain. This year's biggest prize, of £83m went to a UK winner in January.
The Independent
03-06-2025
- Business
- The Independent
The UK's 10 biggest EuroMillions wins
A single EuroMillions ticket-holder could become the UK's biggest-ever lottery winner on Tuesday. The jackpot is an estimated £199 million and would be the largest prize the UK has seen, National Lottery operator Allwyn said. Here are the 10 biggest UK lottery wins to date – all from EuroMillions draws – and what some of the winners did with their fortunes. – Anonymous, £195,707,000 A UK ticket holder scooped a EuroMillions jackpot of £195 million on July 19 2022. – Joe and Jess Thwaite, £184,262,899.10 Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, scooped a then record-breaking £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket for the draw on May 10 2022. At the time, Joe was a communications sales engineer, and Jess ran a hairdressing salon with her sister. – Anonymous, £177,033,699.20 A UK ticket holder became the third biggest National Lottery winner of all time after receiving a £177 million jackpot. The single ticket holder, who chose to remain anonymous, came forward to claim the EuroMillions jackpot after the draw on November 26 2024. The winner became immediately wealthier than popstar Dua Lipa, who is worth an estimated £104 million, and Michael Buble, worth around £63 million. – Anonymous, £171,815,297.80 A UK ticket holder scooped £171,815,297.80 in the September 23 2022 draw – at the time the country's third biggest National Lottery win. – Anonymous, £170,221,000 The fifth biggest winner of the National Lottery to date scooped £170 million in 2019 after matching all the numbers in a Must Be Won draw on October 8. – Colin and Chris Weir, £161,653,000 Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, bagged their historic winnings on July 12 2011, making them the biggest UK winners at the time. Colin used £2.5 million of his fortune to invest in his beloved Partick Thistle Football Club, which led to one of the stands at the stadium being named after him. He later acquired a 55% shareholding in the club, which was to be passed into the hands of the local community upon his death. He died in December 2019, aged 71. The couple also set up the Weir Charitable Trust in 2013 and donated £1 million to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. They divorced in the same year of Colin's death. – Adrian and Gillian Bayford, £148,656,000 Adrian and Gillian won 190 million euros in a EuroMillions draw on August 10, 2012, which came to just over £148 million. The couple bought a Grade II listed estate in Cambridgeshire, complete with cinema and billiards room, but it was sold in 2021, some years after the pair divorced. – Anonymous, £123,458,008 The seventh biggest National Lottery winner won a Superdraw rollover jackpot on June 11 2019, and decided not to go public with their success. – Anonymous, £122,550,350 After nine rollovers, one lucky anonymous ticket holder bagged more than £122 million in April 2021. Anonymous, £121,328,187 Another of the UK's top 10 lottery winners found their fortune through a Superdraw jackpot rollover, this time in April 2018.
