Single ticket scoops £35.1m Lotto jackpot - is it you?

One ticket-holder has won £35.1 million in the Lotto draw, the biggest prize ever won in the game, the National Lottery said.
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A National Lottery spokesman said last night: “In tonight’s draw, one ticket-holder has scooped an amazing £35.1 million jackpot, the biggest prize ever won on the game, and a truly life-changing amount of money.”

It is the second big win this year.

In January this year, two Lotto ticket holders broke a 21-year-old record, splitting a £66 million jackpot that was the result of 15 rollovers.

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One of the winning tickets was claimed by David and Carol Martin, a couple living in the Scottish Borders. The other winner remained anonymous.

A few weeks later, Gerry and Lisa Cannings, from Deeping St James in Lincolnshire snapped up £32.5 million.

The previous record was a jackpot of £22.5 million, claimed by two business partners from St Leonards-on-Sea in 1995.

In 1996, three winners shared a £44 million prize, taking home £14 million each.

Meanwhile, Saturday’s estimated jackpot is £4.2 million.

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Nobody matched five numbers plus the bonus ball, but 35 people matching five numbers won £1,914 each.

There were 2,769 winners who matched four balls and they will take home £156 each.

Matching three numbers each, 70,801 tickets scooped £25.

As well as the winner of the £1 million prize Millionaire Raffle, there were 20 additional ticketholders who scooped £20,000 each.

No-one won the top prize of £350,000 in the Lotto HotPicks draw.

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In the Thunderball draw the winning numbers were 39, 23, 04, 20, 16 and the Thunderball number was 02.

No-one scooped the top prize of £500,000.

This most recent jackpot is dwarfed by the Euromillions draw, which regularly sees jackpots of more than 100 million euro (£80 million).

Euromillions is drawn every Tuesday and Friday.

It has a jackpot cap of 190 million euro (£152 million), which has been won twice - once by Britons Gillian and Adrian Bayford, from Haverhill in Suffolk, who took home more than £148 million in August 2012.

The biggest ever prize won by a British couple was £161 million, pocketed by Colin and Chris Weir of Largs in North Ayrshire, Scotland, in July 2011.

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Despite their prize not being the 190 million euro jackpot, they won more in pounds sterling because of fluctuations in the exchange rate.

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