After twelve weeks of tantalising Euromillions players, the swelling jackpot fund - which reached £120 million - has finally been distributed to players. But the jackpot wasn't won by anyone matching 5 main numbers and 2 Lucky Star numbers, because there weren't any such players. Instead, the jackpot had to be rolled down to players who achieved the next best thing by matching 5 main numbers and 1 Lucky Star.
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This was necessary because of a Euromillions rule which states that the jackpot
fund cannot be rolled over to a thirteenth week, but
must instead be shared between second tier winners on
week twelve if no jackpot winners are found.
There were twenty second tier winners from across Europe.
The United Kingdom had seven of them, France had four
of them, Portugal and Spain each had three, Ireland
had two and Belgium had one. This meant that each of
the twenty players won a cool £6,750,278 enough
to put many European national lottery jackpots to shame!
If the jackpot for Friday 17 November had been won
by a single player then it would have obliterated the
win of Dolores McNamara, who won £77,000,000 in
July 2005 and is still the biggest individual winner
of a Euromillions game.
Now that the Euromillions jackpot prize fund has been
paid out, albeit to second tier winners, the game starts
afresh with a guaranteed 15,000,000 prize for the draw
on Friday 24 November. The rollover clock has been
reset and the new jackpot fund can therefore be rolled
over should a top-prize winner continue to elude the
game.
The last time any Euromillions player matched 5 main
numbers and 2 Lucky Stars to claim the jackpot was on
25 August, when just one player claimed the jackpot
fund of 57,414,511. How many more weeks we will have
to wait before someone claims the top tier prize again
remains to be seen, but with 15,000,000 up for grabs,
were sure we wont be the only ones keeping our fingers
crossed this Friday!
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