EuroMillions players have been urged to check their numbers after a ticket holder scooped the £184m jackpot.
Camelot announced one lucky winner matched all seven numbers to win the record-breaking amount in last night's draw. Tuesday's winning EuroMilllions numbers were 3, 25, 27, 28 and 29, and the Lucky Stars were 4 and 9.
The senior winners adviser at The National Lottery confirmed one lucky person matched all seven numbers to win £184,262,899.10. Andy Carter said: "What an amazing night for one UK ticket-holder who has scooped the incredible £184 million EuroMillions jackpot - they have become the UK's biggest ever National Lottery winner.
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"Players are urged to check their tickets and give us a call if they think they are tonight's lucky winner."
The current record lottery win in the UK is an anonymous player, who landed a £170m jackpot in October 2019. If no ticket holder matched the seven numbers last night, the jackpot would have rolled over to £197m on Friday's draw.
A study in 2016 identified Merseyside as one of the luckiest places in the UK to play the lottery. The figures showed 14 people with a Liverpool postcode had been turned into millionaires over the previous two years.
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