Lucky 7 for the UK

Seven Euromillions players from the UK were among the 20 who shared the £120 million jackpot prize fund on Friday 17 November. The Euromillions had snowballed to £120 million after being rolled over again and again, and Friday’s draw still didn’t result in any player matching five main number and the two Lucky Star numbers. But because Euromillions rules don’t allow for rollovers to continue beyond the twelfth week without a jackpot winner, the prize fund for the top prize was shared between the second tier winners, who matched five main numbers and one Lucky Star.

There were 20 players who achieved this. 7 were from the UK, 4 from France, 3 from each of Spain and Portugal, 2 from Ireland and 1 from Belgium. Each second tier winner ended up taking home just over £6.7 million, which is more than many national lotteries pay out as a jackpot!

British players had been crossing their fingers and hoping that Lady Luck would smile on them, because both France and Portugal have had more Euromillions jackpot winners than the UK. Whilst a British jackpot was still as elusive as ever on Friday night, the fact that seven UK players walked away from the latest draw as multi-millionaires was sure to have put a smile on many faces.

Now that the colossal £120,000,000 jackpot fund has been distributed to players, the Euromillions jackpot has been reset for the draw on Friday 24 November. But that doesn’t mean that public interest is will wane by any great degree. The Euromillions lottery guarantees that the jackpot fund will never be worth less than €15,000,000, so there is still plenty to play for this week, and still a hope that the elusive first tier jackpot will be won for the first time since August 2006.

- 20th November