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- EuroMillions 'winner' claims he has £170million ticket in video The man posted footage showing the seven crucial numbers on a red slip of paper – but there was a problem with his claim dailystar.
- The first EuroMillions superdraw of 2021 has been announced as taking place on Friday 5 th February and will have a jackpot of €130 million. The jackpot is the usual amount each superdraw is raised to, and paves the way for the new jackpot cap of €210 million to be reached and another record jackpot win to be made. Read the full story.
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This will be the first superdraw of the year for EuroMillions and continues the trend of a superdraw being held in the month of February that has occurred in both 2019 and 2020. The year 2020 set the record for the most superdraws in a year with four, and this new announcement will be the fifth superdraw over the space of just 12 months.
The jackpot will be set at €130 million which, depending on the exchange rate, normally works out at an advertised jackpot of £115 million in the United Kingdom.
Chance for a new record Jackpot
The EuroMillions record jackpot win was set on 11th December 2020 when a single ticket in France scooped the jackpot cap value of €200 million. This was the cap at the time and ended a run of seven draws from the superdraw on 20th November that went without a winner. Rules announced in February 2020 mean that the jackpot cap was then increased to €210 million, paving the way for the cap to be reached again in February of 2021.
It will take roughly six rollovers, including the superdraw, for the jackpot cap to be reached, however this could me more or fewer depending on the winners and the number of tickets sold. Of course, there could also easily be a winner on the night or in the following draws, so hitting the jackpot cap is not for certain.
Out of the last ten superdraws, only two have been won on the night, and three of those that were not won went on to reach the jackpot cap.
The largest-ever Euromillions jackpot is still up for grabs after nobody won the top prize on Tuesday.
If one person does win the main prize when it is drawn again on Friday - worth an estimated £175m - they would go to the top of the national lottery rich list, beating last year's £170m anonymous winner.
Tuesday's draw numbers were 01, 04, 21, 24, 46 and the Lucky Stars were: 02, 12.
Sixteen ticket holders won £11,680 each after getting all five of the main numbers and, in the millionaire maker selection, one person became a millionaire with the code HZZF32476.
The National Lottery Thunderball numbers were 14, 24, 21, 10, 26 and the Thunderball number was 12.
No-one scooped the top £500,000 prize in the Thunderball draw.
The jackpot has now reached its cap, meaning any prizes in the next winning tier will be boosted for Friday's draw.
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Meanwhile, a couple who won the jackpot back in January last year have given away more than half of their near-£115m prize.
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Frances and Patrick Connolly said their first priority was a list of around 50 friends and family and they also set up two charitable foundations - the Kathleen Graham Trust in Northern Ireland, where they are both from, and the PFC Trust in County Durham, where they now live.
Among their good deeds was buying 1,000 presents for patients in hospital on Christmas Day and donating tablets to those isolated from loved ones during the coronavirus lockdown.
After their win, the couple had vowed not to become part of the 'jet set', celebrating their win with a hug and a cup of tea.
They turned down chances to live in a castle and a 15-bedroom stately home which came with a village. Instead they live in a five-bedroom house, albeit with five acres of land, a tennis court and a swimming pool.
Mrs Connolly, 54, said she had wanted to draw attention to the good work being done by so many people for charity during the pandemic.
She said: 'People need to be celebrated. Not me, not by any stretch of the imagination me, but by me talking I could draw attention to the fact that, actually, we're a nation of heroes here.'
Mrs Connolly said: 'Patrick joked for years that if we ever won the lottery, he'd take away my mobile phone and never let me use the computer again because I'd give away the lot. But I've taken real joy from helping other people out.'