EuroMillions World Record!
Update: A 25 year old woman from Majorca has been confirmed as the winner of the £113 million EuroMillions jackpot on Friday 8 May, 2009. The confirmation took several days to obtain because the winner herself had been in bed suffering from flu and didn’t realise she had won until she forced herself to go back to work!
The confirmation means that the Spanish winner is officially the biggest individual lottery winner in the world, and her win came from a ticket she bought online – something that will undoubtedly encourage even more people to play EuroMillions online in the future.
EuroMillions has set a new world record for the biggest ever lottery payout to an individual ticket holder! The record was set when one EuroMillions ticket bought in Spain matched the five main numbers and two Lucky Star numbers on Friday 8 May, 2009, and won more than £113 million (€126 million) for doing so!
This record-breaking win confirms what most of us already knew – that EuroMillions is the biggest and best lottery in the world. Although bigger jackpots have been won, all of them have been shared by two or more tickets, so this EuroMillions win of £113,229,891 now stands at the very pinnacle as far as individual lottery jackpot prizes are concerned.
We don’t yet have any details about the winner, or whether they bought the ticket as an individual or on behalf of a lottery syndicate. Players in participating EuroMillions nations are also speculating about whether someone from their country might have bought the ticket in Spain whilst on holiday! Whatever the case, the fact that the EuroMillions lottery has paid out the biggest single ticket prize in history is one to be proud of!
If the owner of this record-breaking ticket is an individual, he or she is already one of the richest people in Europe, and will have a bank account bigger than many celebrities. They won’t have any money worries to trouble them, but deciding how to spend £113 million could pose a problem all of its own – after all, there are only so many cars, homes and yachts that someone can enjoy in any given month!
The previous biggest EuroMillions single ticket payout went to Dolores McNamara of Ireland after she matched the EuroMillions results she needed to win £77 million (€115 million) in July, 2005. That record has stood strong for almost four years, so how long the new record will stand for before an even bigger lottery jackpot beats is something we can only imagine.
In the meantime, the EuroMillions jackpot has now reverted to its minimum level of €15 million (around £13 million) so that the rest of us who play EuroMillions online have got our own chance of winning big money!
14/05/2009 10:48:48