Tuesday's EuroMillions draw will see a life-changing sum of money hit a lucky ticketholder's bank account after the top jackpot prize was won.
The first of the twice-weekly draw - among the National Lottery's four games - took place at 8.15pm. And one player has won the mind-blowing £75million jackpot. Meanwhile, the Thunderball draw also returned, offering another chance to win a cool £500,000.
The draw takes place every Tuesday and Friday, with a ticket costing £2.50 and including automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker draw, which creates new UK millionaires every week, guaranteed.
Not your lucky night? Well the next draw is just days away with more millions up for grabs.
We'll keep you fully up to speed so make sure you get your tickets and we'll see you then.
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Entrants to the transnational lottery must be at least 18 years old and buy their tickets in one of the nine European countries.
Though entrants must be in one of the countries, there is no restriction on the buyer's nationality. Non-residents are welcome to play as long as they meet the age requirement.
A £4.5million National Lottery winner is now King of the Road after buying his 'dream' bike.
Gary Henry and his former wife, Ann, used to run a burger van before their September 2008 jackpot. Since then, he has travelled the world, spent £550,000 on a luxury propertyand given £23,000 for a football pitch dedicated to his late mum, Gladys, in his childhood home of South Church, Co Durham.
Gary, 62, celebrated the anniversary of his win with the ‘Rolls Royce of bicycles’ – a £8,500 electric S-Works SL Creo. He said: “The last 15 years have absolutely flown by. I can still remember the phone call to The National Lottery and it all felt like a dream.
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A Tesco delivery driver has told how he thought it was a "trick" after winning the £3.8 million Lotto Jackpot and before completing his shift at work to not leave colleagues in the lurch.
Ticket-holder Jonny Johnston, 45, was delivering festive goodies for his employer, Tesco, just before he discovered his incredible stroke of luck. On completing his rounds on Saturday, December 16, he enjoyed a Christmas night out with work colleagues before spotting a familiar message from the National Lottery on this email announcing there was ‘good news about his ticket’.
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Many of us dream of winning the lottery - but history shows that it isn't always the golden ticket we think it is.
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While scooping a huge jackpot would definitely take some of life's problems away, it would also potentially create new ones.
For some winners who walked away millionaires after their ticket came up trumps, life really did improve - and they would never wish they could return to their old life. But for others, their huge fortunes ended up becoming a burden, leading to poverty, huge bust-ups and even death.
The tragedy follows a clear pattern - the joy of winning is replaced by despair, as they either blow through a fortune, or their personal lives become unbelievably stressful.
Lotto curse - Brits whose lives were destroyed when they became millionaires
Entrants to the transnational lottery must be at least 18 years old and buy their tickets in one of the nine European countries.
Though entrants must be in one of the countries, there is no restriction on the buyer's nationality. Non-residents are welcome to play as long as they meet the age requirement.
EuroMillions is a lottery played across nine European countries - the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland.
The game launched on 7th February, 2004, and has now had over 1,000 draws.
This evening's EuroMillions HotPicks numbers are:
Six lucky players became millionaires in the UK last year with the help of the EuroMillions.
The National Lottery says the biggest jackpot scooped on British shores in 2023 was an incredible £111.7million. It was claimed in June by an anonymous ticket holder.
Millionaire Maker Selection – one UK millionaire has been created: XFKD58687.
A couple have quit work to build their dream home after winning £1million on EuroMillions.
John and Patricia Gill scooped the prize on Christmas Day in 2015, and are now converting a detached property. Patricia said: “The win has bought us time – the time to do so much with our lives. John is now in the process of building our dream home.” The couple are doing the bulk of the work on the former bungalow themselves. They hope to move in in the spring.
Patricia, 60, said her husband, who has an engineering background, has always been “handy”. She added: “He prefers to do it himself. Now that he has retired, it gives him something to get his teeth into.”
She added: “I brush up, I make the tea, I do the sandwich run, but I’ve also been sanding down the door frames, so anything I can do I will get stuck in. I like to keep it clean and tidy because if you are working in a tidy environment it is so much nicer.”
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Tonight's EuroMillions numbers have dropped.
Tonight's winning numbers are 10, 18, 21, 33, 45 and 8 and 12.
The EuroMillions numbers are up next.
Tonight's main event will be upcoming in the next hour so stay tuned.
This evening's Thundebrall numbers have dropped.
You could be in with na chance of winning £500,000 in the four-times weekly draw.
The winning numbers are: 3, 4, 8, 9 and 18. Meanwhile, the Thunderball itself is 04.
Michelle and John had lost their house keys when they decided to try their luck in the opposite direction, and bought a National Lottery scratchcard.
The couple ended up winning £250,000 on it, changing their lives.
They're now the latest National Lottery winners and can look forward to spending their winnings.
Our latest winners Michelle & John brought home a £250K scratchcard win after losing their house keys. This meant they bought their ticket on the way back from their trip to town. We donât think theyâll ever complain about losing their keys again! #NationalLottery pic.twitter.com/mwcY5JWcNv
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK) January 16, 2024
Rachel Kennedy, 19, and Liam McCrohan, 21, were left “absolutely heartbroken” in March after claiming they'd missed out on a £182million EuroMillions jackpot.
The couple, from Hertfordshire, realised their usual numbers of 6, 12, 22, 29, 33, 6 and 11 had come up but there was one major catch - their ticket payment hadn't gone through as their account hadn't had the necessary £2.50.
They had played the same numbers for five weeks in a row, before all seven digits appeared in the draw.
Rachel explained how she had set up her account to automatically buy a EuroMillions ticket for each draw - but when payment for the winning ticket was attempted, the lottery account did not have enough funds. Meaning they didn't win.
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Rachel Kennedy, 19, and Liam McCrohan, 21, from Hertfordshire were absolutely heartbroken when they realised their usual numbers had come up, but they had won nothing (rachelkennedyyx/Instagram )The winnings are transferred electronically within 48 hours but officials recommend it doesn't go into a normal high street savings account.
Instead they suggest winners open a a private account (most of the big banks have teams which deal only with Lottery winners and the very wealthy) which is shielded from the knowledge of ordinary branch staff.
That way no one can leak news of a person's win.
One National Lottery winner pocketed a cool £2million, but still ended up sleeping on a pub floor.
Mike Antonucci scooped the jackpot in 1995 and thought he'd be set for life. He quit his job as an antiques dealer and went on an international spending spree.
However not all went well, and he ended up in a court row over £400 and sleeping on a lilo, on the floor of a pub.
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(Gomer Barry)Tonight's main draw is taking place around 8.30pm-8.45pm and the Thunderball takes place around 8pm.
To play, you will need to pick up your lottery ticket before 7.30pm. Don't worry if you've missed your chance to play tonight, as you'll be able to buy a ticket for Friday's draw after the winning numbers are announce
Tonight's prize has rolled over twice before (Getty Images)Tonight's £75million prize has rolled over at least twice before.
After no ticketholders won a previous £55m EuroMillions lottery jackpot, the prize money was increased to a staggering £67million after another rollover took place.
But this wasn't won either meaning it was rolled over to tonight's prize.
Click here to read more on the last EuroMillions draw.
Tonight, an eyewatering £75million is up for grabs.
This life-changing money could let one lucky Brit quit their job and make all their dreams come true.
Stay tuned for the draws later this evening.
Tonight's rollover jackpot could change one person's life (Getty Images)
