EuroMillions Lottery: UK Winner Picks Up £171m Jackpot

THE GUARDIAN: Ticket-holder comes forward to become third biggest National Lottery winner of all time

A ticket-holder has come forward to claim the £171m jackpot from Friday’s EuroMillions draw, operator Camelot has said.

Their win makes them the third biggest National Lottery winner of all time and instantly richer than the singers Harry Styles, who is worth an estimated £100m, and Adele, worth an estimated £150m.

Camelot’s Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at the National Lottery, said: “What an amazing year for UK EuroMillions players. We are delighted to have received a claim for the third biggest ever win and look forward to supporting the ticket-holder and helping them to start to enjoy their truly life-changing win.” » | Jane Clinton | Sunday, September 25, 2022

EuroMillions: Lottery Winners Scooped £184m with Lucky Dip Ticket

BBC: The UK's biggest EuroMillions lottery winners have been revealed as a couple from Gloucester who scooped £184m with a lucky dip ticket.

Joe and Jess Thwaite won a record-breaking £184,262,899 - making them richer than Adele - last week.

Mrs Thwaite, 44, who has two children with her 49-year-old husband, said the win will give them "time to dream".

The previous record was held by an anonymous winner who banked £170m in October 2019.

After being introduced by TV presenter Dermot O'Leary at a glitzy ceremony on Thursday, Mr Thwaite confirmed that he had already left his job as a communications sales manager.

His wife is also "considering" what to do about her role in a hairdressing salon she runs with her sister. With video » | BBC | Thursday, May 19, 2022

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EuroMillions: Claim Received for Record £184m UK Win, Says Camelot

THE GUARDIAN: Lucky ticket-holder matches all seven numbers to become Britain’s biggest National Lottery winner

The winning numbers were 3, 25, 27, 28 and 29, plus the Lucky Star numbers 4 and 9.Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images
A claim has been received for the record-breaking £184m EuroMillions jackpot prize won by a single UK ticket-holder on Tuesday, Camelot has said.

The lucky ticket-holder matched all seven numbers to win £184,262,899.10, instantly making them the UK’s biggest National Lottery winner. The record was previously held by an anonymous ticket-holder who banked £170m in October 2019.

The winning EuroMillions numbers were 3, 25, 27, 28 and 29, plus the Lucky Star numbers 4 and 9. » | PA Media | Wednesday, May 11, 2022

EuroMillions : un Français a remporté le jackpot de 162 millions d'euros

LE FIGARO : Cette victoire intervient après onze tirages consécutifs sans gagnant.

Un nouveau Français est devenu millionnaire. C'est ce que nous a appris le tirage de l'EuroMillions de ce jeudi soir qui mettait en jeu plus de 163 millions d'euros. Il est ainsi devenu le cinquième plus gros gagnant du pays.

La somme a donc été remportée par un heureux élu qui a joué sa grille en France, trouvant les cinq numéros gagnants (le 1, le 20, le 41, le 42, le 50) et les deux étoiles (le 3 et le 7), nécessaires pour remporter le jackpot. Il dispose de 60 jours pour se manifester. » | Publié : vendredi 26 novembre 2021 ; mis à jour : samedi 27 novembre 2021

Euromillions : la gagnante du jackpot record de 220 millions d'euros est une jeune Polynésienne

LE FIGARO : La chanceuse, qui avait l'habitude de voir son grand-père jouer à la loterie, jouait pour la première fois. C'est le plus gros gain jamais remporté en Europe.

Elle nage dans un océan de richesses: la gagnante qui a remporté mi-octobre 220 millions d'euros, le plus gros jackpot de l'histoire de l'Euromillions, est une jeune Polynésienne qui jouait pour la première fois, a annoncé vendredi la Française des jeux (FDJ).

La chanceuse, qui avait l'habitude de voir son grand-père jouer à la loterie, mais n'avait jamais sauté le pas, a validé son ticket gagnant à Tahiti, selon un communiqué de la FDJ. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | vendredi 29 octobre 2021

EuroMillions jackpot of £184m is largest lottery prize in UK history »

EuroMillions : quel est le secret du gagnant de 30 millions d’euros ?

LE POINT : Selon « Le Parisien », ce père de famille s’est appuyé sur une méthode personnelle pour arriver à la combinaison de nombres gagnante.

9 -17-21-33-39, ainsi que les étoiles 7 et 11. C’est en cochant cette combinaison qu’un père de famille a remporté 30 millions d’euros à l’EuroMillions, le 11 juin dernier, à Châtellerault dans la Vienne. Seul Français vainqueur d’une super cagnotte en 2021 pour l’instant, le nouveau millionnaire n’avait pas choisi ces nombres au hasard, assure la Française des jeux au Parisien. Le vainqueur, qui a désiré conserver son anonymat, s’est appuyé au fil des années sur des statistiques et des formules mathématiques bien à lui avant de valider ses bulletins à l’EuroMillions. » | Par LePoint.fr | mercredi 7. juillet 2021

EuroMillions Lottery Winner to Give Away €50 Million to Charity

The philanthropic Frenchman has been hailed a hero on social
media after giving away more than two-thirds of his Euro
Millions winnings to worthy causes

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: French winner donates lion's share of €72m jackpot to worthy causes in 'incredible act of generosity'

Amid all the gloom over a stagnating economy, serial scandals and a surge in support for the far-right, France finally had a good news story to celebrate on Friday.

A man who scooped more than €72 million (£58 million) on the EuroMillions lottery has decided to give €50 million of his jackpot to charity.

In what the Le Parisien tabloid hailed as "an incredible act of generosity," the unidentified winner from the Haute-Garonne area of southwestern France has said he will share his giveaway between around 10 NGOs working on behalf of the disadvantaged. » | AFP | Friday, May 30, 2014

Un Français remporte 88,3 millions de francs

TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Un joueur français a remporté ce vendredi le gros lot de l'Euromillions.

Le chanceux empoche 88,32 millions de francs [Suisse]. Il s'agit du septième gain le plus important en France depuis la création de la loterie européennes en février 2004. » | ats/Newsnet | vendredi 31 janvier 2014

Jackpot de l’Euromillions : Un très chanceux portugais

La cagnotte de l’euromillions a été gagné par un portugais qui rentrer chez lui avec plus de 65 million d’euros. »

Record £113 Million Lottery Jackpot: Euromillions Winners Found?
THE TELEGRAPH: Four friends are believed to have won the £113m Euromillions jackpot, according to reports.

The Sun reported that the friends, who are aged between 25 and 40, are from Coventry where the ticket was bought.

It said the four of them were staying in a London hotel and receiving advice from financial experts at Camelot, the lottery's organiser in the UK.

The newspaper named one of the men as 28 and said his name was Daniel.

It quoted a relative called Stephen saying: "All I know is that Daniel has gone to London and that he's won it with three other guys. He can be a bit of a joker, but if he is lying about this it will crucify his grandparents. The family are being very cagey and not saying much."

The winning ticket is worth £113,019,926. >>> Andy Bloxham | Friday, October 22, 2010

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Euromillions £113m Ticket Claimed
BBC: The winner of the UK's largest ever lottery ticket has been claimed and paid out, Camelot has announced.

The record-breaking £113m Euromillions Lottery jackpot prize followed a draw on 8 October.

The winner beat odds of more than 76 million to one to pick the winning numbers which were nine, 30, 35, 39, 46, with lucky stars six and eight.

The previous largest lottery winner in the UK was an anonymous player who scooped £84.4m in May.

Nigel Page and Justine Laycock, from Barnsley, Gloucestershire, previously broke the record in February after winning £56m on Euromillions.

According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2010, the ticket-holder could become the 589th wealthiest person in Great Britain. [Source: BBC] | Wednesday, October 20, 2010

THE TELEGRAPH: £113 million lottery winner receives prize: The winner of the record £113 million EuroMillions lottery jackpot came forward to claim their prize, becoming immediately one of the richest people in Britain. >>> Harry Wallop, Martin Evans and Nick Britten | Wednesday, October 20, 2010

¡Buenas noticias! El 'Euromillones' deja en España su mayor premio para un único acertante
EL PAÍS: Un billete validado en la ciudad de Madrid, premiado con 126 millones de euros

Un cupón del sorteo del Euromillones validado en Madrid le dará a su dueño más de 126 millones de euros, el mayor premio de la historia de la lotería europea para una única persona. Este único acertante de primera categoría -cinco números y dos estrellas- adquirió su boleto para el sorteo de esta pasada noche en la Administración de Loterías número 25 de Madrid, situada en el número 39 de la calle Alcalá.

El premio, de 126.231.764 euros, según ha informado Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, supone el de mayor cuantía cobrado por una única persona desde el nacimiento del sorteo en febrero de 2004. >>> Agencias - Madrid | Sábado 9 de mayo de 2009

TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: «Le chat noir» a porté chance au plus gros gagnant à l'Euro Millions

ESPAGNE | L'Espagnol qui a gagné, lors du tirage d'hier soir, 126 millions d'euros a validé son billet dans le bureau de loterie nommé «Le chat noir» situé dans une grande rue du centre de Madrid.

Le plus gros gagnant de l’histoire de l’Euro Millions avec un gain de 126 millions d’euros est pour l’heure anonyme mais a validé son billet dans le bureau de loterie "le chat noir" d’une grande rue du centre de Madrid, a-t-on appris samedi auprès de sa propriétaire. >>> AFP | Samedi 09 Mai 2009

THE GUARDIAN: Lottery Officials Continue Search for Owner of £110m Ticket

Madrid shop sold ticket for biggest single lottery prize / EuroMillions winner may be tourist, says seller

Lottery officials across Europe were searching today for one of the continent's richest people, who may still be unaware that they possess a lottery ticket worth £110m.

The EuroMillions jackpot is the world's biggest ever single lottery prize, but the Madrid lottery shop that sold the ticket has so far been unable to trace the buyer. If found, he or she would shoot into the club of the richest people in Europe. If the winner were British, it would mean joining the Sunday Times rich list at No 492 — tied with the Bee Gees brothers Barry and Robin Gibb.

A sign pinned to the window of the Black Cat lottery shop, just off Madrid's central Plaza de Cibeles, boasted today that this was the place where the €126m ticket had been sold.

The shop's owner, Paloma Cateleiro, said that she had no idea who had bought the ticket but suspected the chit might be lying at the bottom of a tourist's suitcase in some part of Europe.

"A lot of people come though here," she said. "We might never find out who has won it."

She said that the winner had put down €10 in the game, which let them make five different predictions of a combination of numbers that could land the jackpot.

"It could have gone to a tourist or to someone from outside Madrid, as we are right in the centre," said Ana Maria Rincón, one of the Black Cat's lottery sellers.

The huge jackpot built up after the weekly draw was rolled over six times, with no winner since 20 March. >>> Giles Tremlett in Madrid | Sunday, May 10, 2009

TIMESONLINE: £110m Winner of EuroMillions Jackpot Was Ill in Bed with Flu

Europe’s biggest lottery winner is a 25-year-old Spanish woman who was in fear of losing her job and was unaware of her £110 million jackpot because she was struck down with the flu.

The woman, from Majorca, only discovered she had become a multi-millionaire when she returned to work on Monday. She is unmarried but has a boyfriend and bought the ticket through the commercial betting website Serviapuestas.

The winner went back to work after fearing she might lose her job because of the recession, only to turn on her phone and be told she had won the jackpot. The ticket was later validated at the Black Cat kiosk in the centre of Madrid.

Jose Mieres, director of the Serviapuestas website, said they had been trying to contact the young woman since last Friday´s draw. But she did not answer her phone over the weekend and she was not replying to their e-mails.

She told Mr Mieres: “I still had flu on Monday, but with the situation of crisis we are going through, I decided I had to go to work anyway, out of fear of losing my job.” >>> Graham Keeley in Madrid | Tuesday, May 12, 2009