- Tonight’s £168million jackpot is the largest ever on offer to players in Britain
- The lucky winner will automatically leapfrog pop superstar Adele in the rich list
- If no-one is lucky enough to scoops tonight’s jackpot it stays at £168million
Tonight’s £168million lottery jackpot is the largest ever on offer to British punters and the lucky winner will be richer than pop superstar Adele and footballer Wayne Rooney.
The Euromillions has a massive pot because there has not been a winner since September 1 – meaning we have had nine rollovers.
Unfortunately, if no-one scoops tonight’s fortune the prize will stay at £168million, the maximum Euromillions jackpot allowed.
Tonight’s £168million lottery jackpot is the largest ever on offer to British punters and the lucky winner will be richer than pop superstar Adele
If we still do not have a winner there can only be four more draws. On the fifth, the winnings drop to the next winning tier, guaranteeing a payout.
If the money is not claimed tonight, while the total is capped, the extra cash will be made available to the next tier of winners, meaning a bigger prize pool for fewer numbers.
Whoever wins will smash the record of the single biggest lottery win in the UK, which currently stands at the £161million scooped by Scots Colin and Chris Weir in 2011.
If there is a lucky winner tonight, they will have more in the bank than Adele (£125million) and Rooney (£92million).
The National Lottery’s Andy Carter said: ‘Friday’s jackpot remains the biggest ever offered to UK players. A single UK winner would be the biggest this country, and Europe, has ever seen.’
The winner will also leapfrog former England captain Wayne Rooney in the rich list. Rooney has a reported £92million in the bank
The biggest win in the UK this year was £87 million, won by an anonymous ticket-holder.
In 2016, lottery operators Camelot hiked up the price of tickets from £2 to £2.50.
They also increased the amount of lucky stars in the draw, meaning the chance of winning the jackpot shot from one in 17million to one in 140million.
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