A STAGGERING £184m EuroMillions jackpot is on offer tonight – which would be the biggest payout in UK history if a Brit has the lucky ticket.
It comes after nobody picked the winning numbers for Friday's £172million EuroMillions top prize.
Meanwhile, the latest Set for Life numbers have been drawn – 9, 40, 16, 44, 21 and the Life Ball is 6.
You can buy Set For Life tickets every day from 6am until 11pm. But, to play on a draw day, you'll need to buy your ticket before 7.30pm.
Read our National Lottery blog below for the latest updates…
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EuroMillions max jackpot can reach £212M
The maximum the jackpot can reach before being split among winners is €250million — a whopping £212million.
Camelot’s Andy Carter said yesterday: “If one winner banks the lot, they would instantly become the UK’s biggest ever winner.”
Meanwhile, a £1million jackpot will go to good causes unless it is claimed by October 27.
The Millionaire Maker ticket, code ZVWT 35504, was bought on April 30 in Harrow, North West London.
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Tonight's EuroMillions jackpot could make you richer than Adele
ANYONE scooping tonight's biggest-ever Lottery jackpot will be richer than Adele.
The singer’s fortune is £140million, well short of the record £184million EuroMillions pot up for grabs.
A lucky winner would be in the same league as Scottish DJ Calvin Harris at £180million and pop star Robbie Williams worth £185million.
The jackpot, which has rolled over nine times, is enough to buy an eight-bed £110million super yacht.
And there would still be plenty left over for a private Bahamas island with 20-bed house and landing strip — which is being auctioned by Sotheby’s for £44million.
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Monday's Set For Life results
Last night's Set for Life results were: 9, 40, 16, 44 and 21.
Meanwhile the Life Ball was 6.
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Lotto lout remarries ex-wife
LOTTO Lout Michael Carroll has remarried his ex-wife more than a decade after she left him for romping with prostitutes.
The self-styled “King of the Chavs” was just 19 and working as a binman when he scooped £9.7million on the Lottery in 2002.
But he blew his winnings on booze, drugs, sex and friends with ex-wife Sandra Aiken leaving the “big shot” for using prostitutes.
She now appears to have forgiven Carroll, 38, and the pair have tied the knot for a second time, Daily Record reports.
The couple wed in a small ceremony last Saturday and are now understood to be living a quiet life together.
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Camelot on the age change (continued)
A Camelot spokesperson said: “Following the government’s decision to raise the age to play The National Lottery from 16 to 18 on October 1, 2021, we carried out a major programme of work to implement all of the changes that were necessary as quickly as possible, while ensuring that we maintained the very high standards demanded of The National Lottery.
“As a result of the excellent progress we made, we can confirm that the age to play all National Lottery games changed to 18 years or over on 22 April 2021 – well in advance of the change in legislation, which comes into force today.
“Since April, those under the age of 18 have been unable to play National Lottery games in a retail store, online or on the National Lottery apps.”
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How old do I need to be to play?
Those feeling lucky now have to be over 18 to play, as the minimum age goes up from 16 to 18.
That means it is illegal for any retailer to sell these goods to anyone under the age of 18 – and will apply to favourite games like Lotto and the EuroMillions.
Online sales of lottery tickets and scratchcards have already been banned – this came into force in April this year.
The new age restriction, which was exclusively revealed by The Sun, aims to make sure the lottery is not a “gateway to problem gambling”, minister for sport, tourism and heritage Nigel Huddleston previously said.
Gambling is illegal for under-18s, but until now anyone 16 or over has been able to play National Lottery games.
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Best numbers to pick for EuroMillions
For the Euromillions, the most popular number is 50, followed by 44, 19, 4 and 30.
The most common extra numbers have been 8 and 3.
Many players therefore use these same numbers, despite no set of number being mathematically more (or indeed less) likely than any other combination to come out of the machine.
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‘Dying dad gave money for my winning ticket’
A hospital visit to see her father, led lucky Libby Elliot, from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to win £2,169,664 on the lottery.
Shortly before leaving, he gave his grandchildren pocket money and “two pounds pocket money” to his daughter too.
In 2013, Libby, then 57, told the Daily Record: “On a whim, I put it on the Lucky Dip on my way home.”
The next day, her dad couldn’t believe the news and was amazed that Libby was in hospital with him rather than planning ways to spend her cash.
She recalled him saying: “Look at you, you’re a multi-millionaire and yet you’re sitting here beside me.”
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‘Begging for blackcurrant juice’
Kerri-Ann Robinson, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was studying for her college diploma in business when she won the jackpot.
The mature student, then 41, was taking care of her three-year-old daughter when she “begged me for a blackcurrant juice” in 2007.
Kerri-Ann raced out to the shops at lunchtime and “as an afterthought, chose a Lucky Dip for the Lotto draw that night”.
The next day during a break between classes, she checked the numbers and discovered she had won £2,543,691.
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Odds for lotteries around the world
- FranceLoto – odds 1:5.99
- Swedish Lottery – odds 1:7
- Oz Lotto – odds 1:8
- Polish Mini Lotto – odds 1:8.5
- UK National Lottery – odds 1:9.3
- Spanish Lotto – odds 1:10
- Austria Lotto – odds 1:12
- Irish Lotto – odds 1:13
- Mega Millions Lottery – odds 1:24
- Powerball Lotto – odds 1:24.87
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Why did the ‘King of Chavs’ wife leave him?
Michael Carroll has reportedly remarried his estranged wife Sandra.
The self-styled ‘King of Chavs’ was 19 when he scooped £9,736,131 on the National Lottery in November 2002.
Part-time binman Michael Carroll, who was wearing an electronic tag when he bought his winning ticket, splashed out on a £340,000 on a six-bedroom home in Norfolk. Not content with the swish property, he lavished £400,000 on a series of upgrades including a swimming pool and a car track in the garden.
Michael also spent around £1million on shares in his beloved Rangers FC and £49,000 on a BMW. Carroll’s wife, Sandra, left him just a month after their wedding in 2003 after being appalled by his incessant partying, accusing him of cheating on her with sex workers.
She took £1.4million in a settlement – but once she was gone, Michael really dialled up the hedonism with what he called “Roman-style orgies” at his mansion while spending £2,000 on cocaine in a single day.
“I only started to think about three things – drugs, sex and gold,” he said. “The dealer who introduced me to crack has more of my lotto money than I do.”
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Explained: How long do winners have to claim their money?
Winners from different countries have different deadlines to claim their prize.
In Austria, winners have a whole three years to claim the prize before it is returned to the lottery and used to fund boosted prizes.
Belgian winners, on the other hand, only have around 140 days before the money is returned to the Belgian National Lottery.
The least amount of time to snap up the jackpot goes to France and Luxembourg.
Winners from Ireland, Portugal and Spain all have around 90 days to tell the world they’ve won.
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‘We forgot our ticket – so we won twice’
Derek and Dawn Ladner, from Redruth, Cornwall, were thrilled when the same six numbers they used every week finally came up in the midweek lottery draw.
They initially claimed £479,142 from the £2,395,710 jackpot due to bagging the top prize with five other winners.
However, a week later Derek, then 57, was in for quite the shock when he found a second lottery ticket in his pocket.
It was from that same winning draw and thanks to his forgetfulness – when he bet twice with the same lucky numbers – their winnings increased to £958,284.
In 2007, lottery operator Camelot told the Daily Mail: “[Derek] bought one winning ticket but forgot about it, then he went off to buy another and ended up with two shares.”
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National Lottery weekly timetable
Here’s a timetable for all UK lottery games including Lotto, EuroMillions and Set For Life.
There is a draw six nights a week.
It should be noted that there are no draws on Sundays.
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Jackpot winner could be richer than Tyson Fury
ONE lucky EuroMillions punter could become richer Tyson Fury with a £184million jackpot up for grabs TONIGHT.
The Gypsy King took his monster wealth to around £150million after defeating Deontay Wilder in a bruising encounter this weekend.
But his success barely makes a dent on Tuesday night’s knockout £184million rollover draw after no-one won the prize on Friday.
No tickets managed to match the five numbers – 01, 10, 23, 42 and 46 – and Lucky Stars 03 and 05 meaning the prize pot jumped by £10million.
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Biggest EuroMillions winner to date
The biggest EuroMillions jackpot win so far this year in the UK was in April when nine rollovers took the jackpot from its starting value of £14m to over £122m before it was won by one anonymous ticket holder
In June, £111,540,000 was won when the jackpot was bumped up for this Superdraw.
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‘I still shop in Primark despite winning £1.8m’
A NATIONAL Lottery winning dinner lady still lives in her council house, shops in Primark and drives a Kia despite bagging £1.8million.
Trish Emson, 51, explained money or her millionaire status did not change her or her partner Graham Norton, also 51, who still works as a decorator.
The down-to-earth pair have even managed to keep their teenage son Benjamin, 17, in check – and don’t even give him pocket money.
The modest mum, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said: “Being rich doesn’t make you posh or a better person.
“I don’t like showing off and bragging about money and I can’t be posh anyway.
“To look at me you wouldn’t think I was a millionaire, but if I have to dress up I feel fake, I prefer my jeans,” she told The Mirror.
Read the article in full here.
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Explained: What is EuroMillions and how to play
EuroMillions was launched on February 7, 2004, by lotteries in France, Spain and the UK – with the first draw being held in Paris six days later.
In October of that year, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland joined.
Draws are held every Tuesday and Friday evening, with them all taking place in Paris at 8.45pm local time – 7.45pm in the UK.
You will choose five main numbers and then two lucky stars (numbers), with prizes ranging from around £2.50 up to the jackpot.
The prize values vary depending on ticket sales and the number of winners in each prize tier.
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What are my odds of winning the lottery?
WINNING the Lottery or dying in a storm – what are the odds?
Number - crunching experts at cardchat.com have worked out the likelihood of some very unlikely events.
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Lotto lout remarries ex-wife
LOTTO Lout Michael Carroll has remarried his ex-wife more than a decade after she left him for romping with prostitutes.
The self-styled “King of the Chavs” was just 19 and working as a binman when he scooped £9.7million on the Lottery in 2002.
But he blew his winnings on booze, drugs, sex and friends with ex-wife Sandra Aiken leaving the “big shot” for using prostitutes.
She now appears to have forgiven Carroll, 38, and the pair have tied the knot for a second time, Daily Record reports.
The couple wed in a small ceremony last Saturday and are now understood to be living a quiet life together.
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‘Dying dad gave money for my winning ticket’
A hospital visit to see her father, led lucky Libby Elliot, from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to win £2,169,664 on the lottery.
Shortly before leaving, he gave his grandchildren pocket money and “two pounds pocket money” to his daughter too.
In 2013, Libby, then 57, told the Daily Record: “On a whim, I put it on the Lucky Dip on my way home.”
The next day, her dad couldn’t believe the news and was amazed that Libby was in hospital with him rather than planning ways to spend her cash.
She recalled him saying: “Look at you, you’re a multi-millionaire and yet you’re sitting here beside me.”
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‘Begging for blackcurrant juice’
Kerri-Ann Robinson, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was studying for her college diploma in business when she won the jackpot.
The mature student, then 41, was taking care of her three-year-old daughter when she “begged me for a blackcurrant juice” in 2007.
Kerri-Ann raced out to the shops at lunchtime and “as an afterthought, chose a Lucky Dip for the Lotto draw that night”.
The next day during a break between classes, she checked the numbers and discovered she had won £2,543,691.
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What are my odds of winning the lottery?
WINNING the Lottery or dying in a storm – what are the odds?
Number - crunching experts at cardchat.com have worked out the likelihood of some very unlikely events.
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Jackpot winner could be richer than Tyson Fury
ONE lucky EuroMillions punter could become richer Tyson Fury with a £184million jackpot up for grabs TOMORROW.
The Gypsy King took his monster wealth to around £150million after defeating Deontay Wilder in a bruising encounter this weekend.
But his success barely makes a dent on Tuesday night’s knockout £184million rollover draw after no-one won the prize on Friday.
No tickets managed to match the five numbers – 01, 10, 23, 42 and 46 – and Lucky Stars 03 and 05 meaning the prize pot jumped by £10million.
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Explained: What is EuroMillions and how to play
EuroMillions was launched on February 7, 2004, by lotteries in France, Spain and the UK – with the first draw being held in Paris six days later.
In October of that year, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland joined.
Draws are held every Tuesday and Friday evening, with them all taking place in Paris at 8.45pm local time – 7.45pm in the UK.
You will choose five main numbers and then two lucky stars (numbers), with prizes ranging from around £2.50 up to the jackpot.
The prize values vary depending on ticket sales and the number of winners in each prize tier.
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