Biggest Lottery Win UK
The UK might be a fairly compact nation from a geographical perspective, but it is a big player in the world of lottery games and some massive jackpot wins have been achieved by UK lottery players. The biggest lottery win of all in the UK was achieved on Friday 8 October, 2010 in the EuroMillions game. The jackpot was worth £113,019,926, and this was won by a single ticket. The record-breaking lottery winner didn’t go public, but it was widely reported in the UK tabloid press that the ticket belonged to a syndicate of four in Coventry.
This biggest lottery win was made possible because the EuroMillions game offered a special Mega Jackpot worth £82 million on Friday 1 October, 2010, but no player managed to match the five main numbers and two Lucky Star numbers required to win it. The Mega Jackpot therefore rolled over and on Friday 8 October the even bigger £113 million fortune was landed. The odds of the jackpot being won in the EuroMillions game (which has a minimum value of €15 million) are 1 in 176,275,360.
The biggest lottery winners to go public in the UK are Nigel Page and his partner Justine Laycock, who won a half-share of a £112 million EuroMillions jackpot on Friday 12 February, 2010. Their £56 million win came just a couple of days after Nigel had won a much smaller prize of £55 in the Lotto game on Wednesday 10 February.
Not only are Nigel Page and Justine Laycock the biggest lottery winners in the UK who have agreed to be named, their win is also notable because it came as a result of them buying their lottery tickets online. Lottery tickets have been available for purchase online in the UK for quite a few years, but the success of Nigel and Justine really proved the point that tickets bought online have just as much chance of landing a jackpot – even a record-breaking jackpot – as tickets bought offline.
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