EuroMillions UK
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EuroMillions is the biggest lottery game available in the United Kingdom. British players take part in the same European EuroMillions draw as players in France, Spain, Ireland and several other European countries. UK tickets also include entry into UK Millionaire Maker, a separate raffle that creates a guaranteed £1 million winner in every single draw.
The British version has its own economics. A ticket costs £2.50 but is legally two games in one: £1.74 for the European draw and 76p for Millionaire Maker. Prizes are completely tax-free, sales close at 7:30pm sharp, and the UK is the only major EuroMillions market where jackpot amounts move with the exchange rate. Below you will find the results, the rules and the numbers that most EuroMillions pages never publish.
Latest EuroMillions UK Results
Draw date: Friday 4 September 2026
Winning numbers: 11 – 12 – 19 – 27 – 46
Lucky Stars: 4 – 12
UK Millionaire Maker code: TXCP 92317
Nobody in Europe matched 5 + 2, so the jackpot rolled over. In the UK the top result was three tickets matching all five main numbers, worth £12,287.10 each — plus the guaranteed £1 million Millionaire Maker winner.
UK prize breakdown of the last draw
| Match | UK winners | Prize per winner | Winners across Europe |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 + 2 Stars | 0 | Rollover | 0 |
| 5 + 1 Star | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | £12,287.10 | 9 |
| 4 + 2 Stars | 11 | £1,013.00 | 34 |
| 4 + 1 Star | 247 | £75.30 | 842 |
| 3 + 2 Stars | 452 | £44.80 | 1,497 |
| 4 | 602 | £21.50 | 2,188 |
| 2 + 2 Stars | 6,269 | £11.10 | 21,219 |
| 3 + 1 Star | 10,702 | £7.10 | 36,860 |
| 3 | 25,978 | £5.10 | 95,645 |
| 1 + 2 Stars | 31,616 | £5.50 | 106,642 |
| 2 + 1 Star | 143,573 | £3.70 | 496,931 |
| 2 | 349,126 | £2.30 | 1,279,265 |
| UK Millionaire Maker | 1 | £1,000,000 | UK only |
Exclusive detail: that single draw produced 568,580 UK prizes out of 2,041,133 won across the whole of Europe — 27.9% of every EuroMillions prize on the continent went to a British ticket. For comparison, Spain took 18.5% of the same draw. The UK is, by winner count, the single busiest EuroMillions market in Europe.
Current EuroMillions Jackpot
Next EuroMillions Jackpot: £84 Million (€98 Million)
Draw: Tuesday 8 September 2026, shown at 8:45pm UK time
Ticket sales close at 7:30pm on the day of the draw.
UK jackpot advertisements are always a currency conversion of the European prize fund, which is calculated in euros. That is why the British figure moves even when the euro jackpot does not, and why a “£84 million” jackpot can be worth slightly more or less by the time it is paid. The European jackpot is capped at €250 million; once the cap is reached, any surplus rolls down into the next winning tier.
How EuroMillions Works in the UK
EuroMillions is a transnational lottery sold by nine national operators. In the UK that operator is Allwyn, which took over The National Lottery licence from Camelot in February 2024.
- The draw is European. Five main numbers from 1–50 and two Lucky Stars from 1–12 are drawn in Paris every Tuesday and Friday; the UK broadcast goes out at 8:45pm.
- The prize pool is shared. Each operator pays €1.10 per line into the Common Prize Fund, so a British ticket competes for exactly the same jackpot as a Spanish or French one.
- The extras are national. The UK adds Millionaire Maker (and the separate HotPicks game), France adds My Million, Spain adds El Millón, Portugal adds M1lhão.
- The money split is British. Of the £2.50 ticket, 50% of the £1.74 main-game stake (87p) goes to the prize fund, plus 30% of the 76p Millionaire Maker stake (22.8p) — a combined 43.9% in prizes, with the balance covering Good Causes, Lottery Duty, retailer commission and operating costs.
- Prizes are tax-free. No British winner pays income tax on a EuroMillions prize.
The UK has played EuroMillions since the very first draw on 13 February 2004, alongside France and Spain. Tuesday draws were added in 2011 and the twelfth Lucky Star arrived in 2016.
How to Play EuroMillions in the UK
Price and entry rules
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Price per line | £2.50 (£1.74 main game + 76p Millionaire Maker) |
| Numbers | 5 from 1–50 |
| Lucky Stars | 2 from 1–12 |
| Lines per play slip | Up to 7 |
| Play slips per purchase | Up to 10 |
| Lucky Dip | Random numbers generated for you |
| Advance play | Tuesday, Friday or both, for up to 4 consecutive weeks (or Direct Debit) |
| Online sales window | 6am to 11pm daily |
| Draw-day cut-off | 7:30pm |
| Minimum age | 18 |
| Claim deadline | 180 days from the draw |
EuroMillions HotPicks – the UK-only side game
HotPicks is a separate £1.50 game that uses the five main EuroMillions numbers but ignores the Lucky Stars. You choose how many numbers to play and must match every one of them.
| Game | You must match | Odds | Fixed prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pick 1 | 1 number | 1 in 10 | £10 |
| Pick 2 | 2 numbers | 1 in 123 | £100 |
| Pick 3 | 3 numbers | 1 in 1,960 | £1,500 |
| Pick 4 | 4 numbers | 1 in 46,060 | £30,000 |
| Pick 5 | 5 numbers | 1 in 2,118,760 | £1,000,000 |
The detail most players miss: matching five numbers in HotPicks (1 in 2,118,760) is easier than matching five numbers in the main game (1 in 3,107,515), and both pay out £1 million-class money — but HotPicks gives you no route to the jackpot and no Millionaire Maker code.
What is UK Millionaire Maker?
UK Millionaire Maker is Britain’s exclusive add-on raffle. Every line of EuroMillions numbers bought in the UK generates a unique code of four letters and five digits (for example TXCP 92317). One code is drawn after every EuroMillions draw and wins £1,000,000.
- Automatic and compulsory. The 76p is already in your £2.50; you cannot opt out and you cannot choose your code.
- Codes always start with H, J, M, T, V, X or Z, and the two middle letters rotate from draw to draw — a quick way to spot which draw a code belongs to.
- Exact match only. Every character must line up in the same position; there are no partial prizes.
- A guaranteed winner every draw. The winning code is picked by an Automated Draw Machine from codes actually sold, so the £1 million always lands in the UK.
- Advance and Direct Debit tickets receive a fresh code for each draw they enter.
Millionaire Maker facts you will not find on most sites
- It has been running since November 2009 — since then at least one British player has become a millionaire every single week through the raffle.
- Two, then one. In January 2019 the number of guaranteed codes per standard draw was doubled to two.
EuroMillions Prize Categories
The UK uses the same 13 European prize tiers, plus the raffle. Because prizes are converted from euros, published UK amounts are estimates that change with every draw.
Match Typical UK prize Odds 5 + 2 Lucky Stars Jackpot 1 in 139,838,160 5 + 1 Lucky Star £130,554.30 1 in 6,991,908 5 £13,561.20 1 in 3,107,515 4 + 2 Lucky Stars £844.70 1 in 621,503 4 + 1 Lucky Star £77.80 1 in 31,075 3 + 2 Lucky Stars £37.30 1 in 14,125 4 £25.60 1 in 13,811 2 + 2 Lucky Stars £9.10 1 in 985 3 + 1 Lucky Star £7.30 1 in 706 3 £6.00 1 in 314 1 + 2 Lucky Stars £4.30 1 in 188 2 + 1 Lucky Star £3.60 1 in 49 2 £2.50 1 in 22 UK Millionaire Maker £1,000,000 Depends on tickets sold; one guaranteed winner Estimated prize values as reviewed on 1 April 2025; actual amounts vary with exchange rates and ticket sales. Note the quirk at the bottom of the table: matching two main numbers returns exactly £2.50 — your stake back, and nothing more.
Odds of Winning EuroMillions
The chance of winning any EuroMillions prize is 1 in 13. The jackpot is 1 in 139,838,160.
What UK players should really compare is the raffle. Millionaire Maker odds are not fixed — they depend entirely on how many lines are sold that night. On a quiet Tuesday your odds of the guaranteed £1 million might be around 1 in 3 to 4 million; during a huge roll series, when the UK was selling 18,600 tickets per minute at peak, the same code faced millions more rivals. In other words, the jackpot gets more attractive as the bote grows, while your Millionaire Maker chance gets worse.
Route to £1 million or more in the UK Odds per line EuroMillions jackpot (5 + 2) 1 in 139,838,160 HotPicks Pick 5 (£1m, £1.50 extra) 1 in 2,118,760 UK Millionaire Maker (£1m, included) Roughly 1 in a few million, varies by draw EuroMillions Tax in the UK
This is where British players have the biggest structural advantage in the whole EuroMillions community. UK lottery prizes are entirely tax-free. There is no income tax, no capital gains tax and no special lottery levy on the win itself — a £195 million jackpot is paid as £195 million.
Only three EuroMillions countries tax prizes at source: Spain and Portugal (20% above their thresholds) and Switzerland (35% above CHF 1,000). Compare the same £1 million raffle prize:
Country Raffle prize Tax Net to winner UK – Millionaire Maker £1,000,000 None £1,000,000 Spain – El Millón €1,000,000 20% above €40,000 €808,000 France – My Million €1,000,000 None €1,000,000 Where UK winners do pay
- Interest and investment income on the money is taxable in the normal way from day one.
- Inheritance tax applies to the estate at 40% above the nil-rate band, which is why large winners typically take immediate estate-planning advice.
- Gifts to family can fall under the seven-year IHT rule.
- Syndicates should have a written agreement in place before the win; without one, HMRC can treat shares handed out afterwards as gifts.
EuroMillions Draw Days and Times
Item Tuesday Friday Ticket sales close 7:30pm 7:30pm Draw shown (site/YouTube) 8:45pm 8:45pm Results published online from about 9:30pm from about 9:30pm Millionaire Maker code drawn Yes Yes Online sales window 6am – 11pm daily Miss the 7:30pm cut-off and your purchase automatically rolls into the next draw. Prizes must be claimed within 180 days of the draw; anything unclaimed goes to the National Lottery Distribution Fund for Good Causes.
EuroMillions UK in Numbers: Exclusive Player Data
Indicator Figure UK EuroMillions sales, 2025 £2.1 billion – the game’s highest year ever Total National Lottery sales, 2025 £8.1 billion (+3.5% on 2024) EuroMillions share of National Lottery sales ≈ 26% Record roll series 8 April – 17 June 2025, 21 draws, over ten weeks UK sales from that single roll series Over £550 million Good Causes raised by that roll series £190 million – a UK record Peak selling rate 18,600 tickets per minute (Friday 6 June 2025) UK prizes won in the draw of 4 Sep 2026 568,580 of 2,041,133 across Europe (27.9%) Digital National Lottery players 12.1 million, with 1 million new digital users in 2025 Digital share of sales 51% (£4.1 billion, +9.8%) Good Causes funding, 2025 More than £1.7 billion – about £33 million a week Lottery Duty paid to the Treasury, 2025 £967 million Millionaires created since 1994 (all games) More than 8,000 UK EuroMillions jackpot winners since 2004 132 – level with France and ahead of Spain’s 123 The 2026 twist: a market cooling off
The record year has been followed by a sharp reversal. Good Causes income fell to £377.2 million in the April–June 2026 quarter, close to a decade low and down almost a quarter year on year, while Allwyn reported revenues down 14% over recent months. Earlier, in the October–December 2025 quarter, National Lottery sales dropped £39 million — driven mainly by a £72.1 million fall in EuroMillions sales.
Why this matters for players: EuroMillions revenue in the UK is almost entirely jackpot-driven. Great roll series inflate a year (2025), and their absence deflates the next one (2026). The game’s health is measured in rollovers, not in habit.
Three conclusions from the data
- Britain wins more prizes than anyone. Nearly 28% of all EuroMillions prizes in a typical draw are won on UK tickets, and the UK is tied with France at 132 jackpot wins.
- The UK ticket is the most tax-efficient in the game. Combined with the guaranteed raffle millionaire, a British £2.50 line offers something no Spanish, Portuguese or Swiss ticket can: a headline prize you keep in full.
- Half the market is now digital. With 12.1 million digital players and 51% of sales online, the classic corner-shop lottery ticket is no longer the default British EuroMillions purchase.
Biggest EuroMillions Winners in the UK
# Prize Date Winner(s) 1 £195,707,000 19 July 2022 Anonymous – the biggest National Lottery win of all time 2 £184,262,899 10 May 2022 Joe and Jess Thwaite, Gloucester – won on a Lucky Dip 3 £171,815,297 2022 Anonymous – claimed within 48 hours of the draw 4 £170,221,000 October 2019 Anonymous – a Must Be Won draw 5 £161,653,000 July 2011 Colin and Chris Weir, Largs 6 £148,656,000 August 2012 Adrian and Gillian Bayford, Suffolk 7 £123,458,008 June 2019 Anonymous – a Superdraw rollover 8 £122,550,350 April 2021 Anonymous – after nine rollovers