Brit Steps Forward to Claim $66M EuroMillions Lottery Prize

A single ticket in a EuroMillions drawing cast from last-place Friday is worth simply shy of £55 meg (US$67 million). The winner is ready to cash inwards as, just now iv days after hitting the jackpot, a British people Lottery participant came forward to arrogate the massive value today.

British National Lottery operator Camelot announced that unity fine holder had claimed the £54,957,242.50 (US$67.20 million) destiny drawn on Friday, June 10. This would follow the tertiary British EuroMillions victor this yr if Camelot confirms the Lotto win.

There’s no reason to halt playing, though, as there’s another chance to win a immense jackpot tomorrow night. A EuroMillions jackpot worth around £122 one thousand thousand (US$149.2 million) testament live on the table.

Massive Win Shines More Light on EuroMillions

So far, the winner has decided to remain anonymous. He or she may prefer to reveal their identity, but it isn’t a requirement. In some cases, drawing winners prefer to remain anonymous in dictate to avoid decorous the middle of unwanted attention. It’s also an travail to non suddenly go the “lost cousin” of someone they ne'er knew existed.

In addition to the in vogue(p) monumental prize, 2022 saw an unidentified winner from the UK claim £109 billion (US$133.28 million) inwards the February 4 draw. Next, the biggest-ever National Lottery win of £184 one thousand thousand (US$224 million) followed.

That cobbler's last prize went to “down-to-earth” Joe Thwaite and Jess Thwaite of Gloucestershire on May 10. The Sun reported that the match from Gloucester spent 38,000 (US$46,466) of their immense win to purchase a nondescript, used gray-headed Volvo V60.

Andy Carter, Senior Winners Advisor at The National Lottery for Camelot, said that the trio of wins is big news. He added that the entity will act with the victor in rules of order to help them “start to savour their really life-changing win.” President Carter didn’t bring home the bacon more details, only stating that the in vogue(p) victor purchased the fine inwards a physical shop, non online.

Not everyone comes forwards so quickly. On March 8, someone inward Cymru won £1 million (US$1.22 million) inwards the EuroMillions Millionaire Maker draw. However, the single(a) waited until March 23 to exact the prize.

Missed by an Inch

Sometimes, peeress Luck doesn’t drama nicely. Many drawing players gambol the same combination, intellection that those numbers they look at so special testament one day spring them a good reward.

That was the grammatical case with Rachel Kennedy, a 19-year-old who had been playing the EuroMillions drawing for several weeks with the same combination. Her wishing eventually came avowedly late when all her numbers hit. However, she testament ne'er follow able-bodied to gather up the €210-million (US$221 million) prize.

Kennedy buys her tickets using the National Lottery’s online application. She configured it to automatically buy tickets for revenant draws so she doesn’t get to purchase them manually.

However, inward this instance, President John F. Kennedy forgot single crucial step. She hadn’t assign monetary resource inward the account statement to treat any purchases.

After she received a notice near the winning numbers, Kennedy’s heart likely skipped a thump as she realized they were her numbers. However, upon reviewing her account, she found that she had non really participated inwards the draw.

Kennedy tried inwards vain to view if Camelot could perform anything; however, fifty-fifty she to the highest degree potential knew what the outcome would be. Camelot confirmed that her numbers hit, and also confirmed that there wasn’t any way of life she could exact the prize.