A \u00a335.1m Lotto jackpot – the biggest prize in the UK game’s history – has been claimed by a single ticket, lottery operator Camelot has said.<\/p>\n
The ticket matched the winning numbers in Wednesday’s draw – 50, 57, 31, 17, 41 and 15 – to win \u00a335,133,888.<\/p>\n
Camelot has not revealed whether a syndicate or an individual held the ticket, or where it was bought.<\/p>\n
The jackpot beats the previous record prize, won by two tickets that shared \u00a366m in January.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s jackpot will be paid out at a ticket validation appointment, and the winner will then decide whether or not to go public and share their news, Camelot said.<\/p>\n
The National Lottery said it was delighted that the “life-changing win” had been claimed.<\/p>\n
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In January, David and Carol Martin, a couple from the Scottish Borders, shared the \u00a366m jackpot with another winner, who chose to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n
The prize, which was the result of 15 rollovers, broke a 21-year-old record.<\/p>\n
A few weeks later, Gerry and Lisa Cannings, from Deeping St James, near Peterborough, won \u00a332.5 million.<\/p>\n
They waited a week to claim their prize because they were having their house redecorated.<\/p>\n
The record prior to January’s win was a jackpot of \u00a322.5 million, claimed by two business partners from St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1995.<\/p>\n
National Lottery jackpots have been dwarfed in recent years by those won by British winners of the Euromillions lottery.<\/p>\n
Money for that prize comes from ticket sales in a number of European countries and the jackpot often rolls over for many weeks.<\/p>\n
The biggest UK Euromillions winners are Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in North Ayrshire, who collected \u00a3161.6m in 2011.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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