Someone FINALLY wins £32million Lotto Jackpot by beating 45million-to-one odds

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At last! Someone FINALLY wins £32million Lotto Jackpot by beating 45million-to-one odds in new-harder-to-win game 

• UK winner matched six numbers 15,16, 23,39,48 and 59 in last night's draw
• National Lottery jackpot was £32.5million after rolled over from Wednesday
• It's just 24 hours after winner of £24m Euromillions jackpot came forward
• Comes amid calls for boycott because rule changes made it harder to win 

 

Someone has has come forward to claim a £24m EuroMillions jackpot which was won by a UK ticket-holder

 

The claim needs to be validated by Camelot, which may pay out as soon as Monday, but the winner for the £32.5million UK Lottery jackpot has not yet come forward.

The prize for having five balls and the bonus ball was just £110,904 and that was also won by one ticket holder, and 65 can expect £1,796 for matching five numbers.

As yet, it is unclear whether either prize has been won individually or as part of a syndicate, and it is not known where either ticket was purchased. 

It comes after claims that thousands of Britons were abandoning the National Lottery because  new rules which make it harder than ever to win the jackpot.

No one had won the top prize in either of the previous  week's Lotto draws, bringing the total number of rollovers since the rule change last year to 29.

That means that more than three quarters of the draws failed to find an overall winner, leading many gamers to start playing other lotteries instead - although Lotto bosses insisted sales are increasing.

The main rival to the National Lottery in Britain is the Health Lottery, where the jackpot is much smaller but also considerably easier to win.

Following the win yesterday, a National Lottery spokesman said: 'After an unprecedented nine UK EuroMillions winners in 2015, it looks like the luck has rolled over into 2016.

'This follows last month when Lotto created its biggest ever winners and the record-breaking number of Lotto millionaires made since October, a stunning 83. What a time to be a National Lottery player in the UK.

'We are delighted the latest big EuroMillions winner has come forward to claim their prize and of course the Champagne is on ice ready to welcome them into the National Lottery millionaires' club.'  

It comes as lottery gamblers were left furious when the 30th rollover paid out top prizes of just £883, under the controversial new rules introduced in October.   

Camelot promised a £28.6million jackpot on Wednesday night but no one had all six numbers, nor were there any tickets matching five balls plus the bonus number.

It meant the largest payout on the night went to 78 people who matched five balls for the more modest sum of £883.  

A Facebook petition is calling for a boycott of the game – unless Camelot reverts to the original rules. 

The decision to increase the number of balls means the odds against getting all six numbers in the draw have gone from one in 14million to one in 45million. 

The latest rollover on Wednesday brought the jackpot prize for yesterday's draw to £32.5million.

The changes were designed by Camelot to increase the number of rollovers and more exciting mega-jackpot prizes.

Last month, the Lotto jackpot reached a record £66.8million, which was shared between a couple from Scotland and a mystery winner in Worcester.

David and Carol Martin, both 54, from the Scottish Borders revealed how they stared at each other silently for five minutes after discovering the had won - before having 'lots of cups of tea' and then phoning their daughter Lisa, 26, who lives in Australia. 

The couple joked how they had to dash out to a local supermarket to pick up a £5 set of champagne flutes because they didn't have any when their friends arrived with a bottle of bubbly at their £176,000 semi-detached house in Hawick. 

The second golden ticket had initially been claimed by Susanne Hinte, a 48-year-old grandmother from Worcester. 

She claimed to have damaged the ticket in her washing machine, but it was found to be a false claim.

Ms Hinte, who moved to the UK from her native Germany at 19, later said submitting the ticket had ruined her life and left her suicidal.  

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