EuroMillions players have a second chance to play for the biggest EuroMillions jackpot ever to be offered this evening, after the new cap of £175 million was reached for the first time on Friday, rolling over to tonight as no-one picked the winning numbers.
The maximum EuroMillions jackpot has only ever been reached four times:
- August 2012: won by Adrian and Gillian Bayford from Suffolk
- October 2014: won by an anonymous ticket holder in Portugal
- October 2017 won in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, Spain
- September 2019: won by an anonymous ticket holder in the UK
If there are no ‘Match 5 + 2’ winners tonight, the jackpot will remain at £175 million.
As an added bonus, any funds that would normally be used to increase the jackpot in the event of a rollover will be transferred to the second prize tier. This means that, should nobody hit the jackpot, those in the next winning tier would likely win a significantly bigger prize than usual!
The jackpot can remain at the capped amount for four draws without a top prize winner.
If – as was the case in September 2019, nobody does manage to match the winning combination in those four draws, the fifth and final draw in that rollover run will become a ‘Must Be Won’ draw.
In that final draw (which in this case would be Friday 18th December IF it is not won before then), the entire Match 5 + 2 prize fund will roll down to the next winning tier, if there are no top prize winners in that final draw.
Here is a breakdown of the 12 biggest UK EuroMillions winners to date and how they chose to acknowledge their huge changes in fortunes:
| Draw | Draw Number | Prize | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8th October 2019 | 1,257 | £170,221,000 | Anonymous |
| 12th July 2011 | 397 | £161,653,000 | Chris and Colin Weir of Largs, Ayrshire |
| 10th August 2012 | 510 | £148,656,000 | Adrian and Gillian Bayford of Haverhill, Suffolk |
| 11th June 2019 | 1,223 | £123,458,008 | Anonymous |
| 24th April 2018 | 1,105 | £121,328,187 | Anonymous |
| 1st January 2019 | 1,177 | £114,969,775 | Frances and Patrick Connolly of Northern Ireland |
| 8th October 2010 | 348 | £113,019,926 | Anonymous |
| 14th March 2014 | 676 | £107,932,603 | Neil Trotter of Coulsdon, Surrey |
| 19th November 2019 | 1,269 | £105,100,701 | Steve and Lenka Thomson of Selsey, West Sussex |
| 7th October 2011 | 422 | £101,203,600 | Dave and Angela Dawes of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire |
| 12th June 2015 | 806 | £93,388,944 | Anonymous |
| 30th June 2017 | 1,020 | £87,570,000 | Anonymous |
