Biggest EuroMillions Jackpot Winners

A special Superdraw at the start of December 2023 boosted the jackpot to €200 million – rather than the usual €130 million - and a couple of rollovers later it had reached its then-limit of €240 million.

Out of all the tickets sold in Europe, a single player from Austria matched all the numbers. They had purchased their entry online, so there was no danger of them missing out on the prize. The jackpot was more than double the amount that had ever been won in Austria before.

The big win happened in the first draw at the jackpot cap, so it could have stayed at that value much closer to Christmas before it had to be won.

EuroMillions set its third record in less than a year when a €220 million jackpot was won in October 2021, following a Superdraw in late September when the top prize got boosted to €130 million.

France celebrated another big win, but it soon emerged that the ticket had actually been purchased thousands of miles away on the Pacific island of Tahiti.

As it is part of French Polynesia, EuroMillions is available to lottery fans in the region, and this winner was a young woman who had never previously played the game. She said she wanted to travel the world and ‘discover the snow’ she hadn’t seen before. She said she would continue to walk in bare feet.

This big win set a new national record for the largest jackpot ever to go to Portugal. It had been set up by a Superdraw a few weeks earlier on 7th June, with the jackpot then quickly moving past €200 million.

It was revealed shortly after the draw that the winning ticket was sold in Ramalde, in the district of Porto.

As major prizes in Portugal are subject to tax at a rate of 20 percent, the winner’s final payout amount was worth around €171 million, with €42.6 million going to the government.

A lucky ticket holder from the south of France scooped €200 million in this draw, making it the first time in the history of the game that a jackpot exceeding the previous €190 million limit had been hit.

The jackpot reached the limit after a €130 million Superdraw that took place on 20th November rolled over for the six subsequent draws.

It was later revealed that the winner had set up an environmental foundation called Anyama, and planned to use almost all of his money to help fight climate change. Known only as ‘Guy’, he had only bought his ticket so that he could make a difference to the world if he won, and said it was his desire to ‘protect the living and watch over our own future’.

One of the most extraordinary periods in EuroMillions history resulted in one UK ticket holder winning the joint-biggest EuroMillions jackpot of all time and the biggest lottery prize ever won in the UK.

After 18 consecutive rollovers the jackpot hit €190 million - which was the cap at the time - on 24th September 2019, before another four draws went by still without a winner. A 'Must Be Won' draw, in which all of the prize money was guaranteed to be given away, took place on Tuesday 8th October and one player matched all the numbers in that draw to win the entire jackpot.

The player staked their claim just a couple of days after the draw and it was later confirmed that they had decided to stay anonymous, so no more details were revealed.