Good evening and welcome to tonight's Euromillions live blog, where the winning numbers from the Euromillions and Thunderball draws will be reported live as they are drawn. The Euromillions jackpot for Friday, October 2 is a colossal £24m. Good luck to everyone playing along.
Draw details and how to win
The Euromillions draw takes place every Tuesday and Friday, and a ticket costs £2.50. That includes automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker draw, which creates new UK millionaires every week. The overall jackpot can rise to €190m (approximately £167m).
If you have bought a ticket, you can check your numbers below. Players must match all five main numbers and two lucky star numbers to claim the jackpot. If you have got two numbers, or one number and two lucky stars, or better, then you are a winner.
Thunderball and past winners
The Thunderball draw is also taking place tonight, and the results will be displayed below. The Thunderball draw takes place at 8pm, and the Euromillions draw takes place at around 8.15pm.
In May 2022, Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, became the UK's biggest-ever Euromillions winners after netting £184m with a lucky dip ticket. Their record did not last long, though, after another UK winner came forward in July 2022 to claim a jackpot of £195m. However, they have not gone public.
Prior to Mr and Mrs Thwaite's win, the previous record was held by an anonymous winner who scooped £170m in October 2019. On June 4, 2021, a ticketholder in the UK scooped the £111m jackpot in the Friday-night draw, matching all seven numbers to become the country's ninth-biggest lottery winner ever at that stage.
In June 2019, a single ticketholder in the UK won £123m in the Tuesday night Euromillions draw. It was the third-biggest Euromillions jackpot in the UK since the draw launched in 2004. It meant they instantly became as rich as Fifty Shades of Grey author E. L. James (£127m) and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page (£125m).
June 2023 was a lucrative month for UK players, with a ticketholder bagging a £117.1m jackpot on June 2, while another winner scooped the £55m jackpot on June 20. Euromillions is played in nine European countries.
