A ticket-holder has become the fourth
person this year in the UK to strike it rich on Euromillions, but they have yet
to claim Friday’s £22.1m prize.
The person hit the jackpot with the numbers 5, 6, 11, 30, 44 and matched the
lucky star numbers 2 and 6.
Euromillions UK operator Camelot said: “It’s amazing to have another big
winner here in the UK – we’ve been extremely lucky in recent years.”
The most recent prize was just a week ago when a ticket-holder scooped
£46m.
Last month Cassey Carrington and Matt Topham, both 22 and from Stapleford,
Nottingham, won £45.2m and in January, Gareth, 40, and Catherine Bull, 35, from
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, won £40.6m.
David and Angela Dawes, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, won £101m last
October.
The UK’s biggest Euromillions prize was a £161m jackpot won by Colin and
Chris Weir, from Largs, Ayrshire, in July 2011.
Nine countries – the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria – participate in Euromillions, with
ticket sales from all of them going into the jackpot fund.
Camelot said that as well as the chance to win “life-changing” prizes,
Euromillions players had helped raise more than £27bn for National Lottery Good
Causes, which benefit communities across the UK.