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National Lottery results: Winning numbers for tonight's £25m jackpot

Today's jackpot is £25m
Today's jackpot is £25m

The winning numbers:

Lotto:  03, 30, 44, 45, 55, 59 

Bonus Ball: 37

Thunderball numbers: 05, 12, 30, 31, 38

Thunderball: 08

Millionaire Maker: RUBY 0529 5155

The National Lottery's must-win £25 million jackpot had meant the odds of winning the top prize were six times better than usual.

The total prize fund had to be won tonight as there had been ten consecutive draws without a jackpot winner, so if no-one correctly predicted all six numbers the £24.7 million jackpot would either be won or shared by anyone who matched five numbers plus the bonus ball. 

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The “must win” rule is triggered when the prize fund reaches £22 million, and cuts the odds of taking home a life-changing prize from one in 45 million to one in 7.5 million.

The draw was streamed live on YouTube and Facebook Live at 8.30pm and results are available on the national lottery website and will be broadcast on BBC One after the Ten O’Clock news.

How to pick lottery numbers and win: 8 ways to increase your chances

 

8:56PM

Wrapping up

That's about it from us here. Thanks for joining.

Hopefully tonight was your lucky night, but, if not, better luck next time.

8:47PM

You can watch the draw here

 

8:43PM

For those of us who didn't win

(And I'm guessing it's pretty much everyone), at least you don't feel as bad as this guy:

 

8:32PM

And the Millionaire Raffle result:

RUBY 0529 5155

8:31PM

And they're off

The National Lottery is now streaming on both Youtube and Facebook Live. 

And the numbers are:

3, 30, 44, 45, 55, 59 and bonus ball 37

8:22PM

A blessing or a curse?

Matching up a string of winning numbers on a lottery ticket is something most people have dreamed about at least once in their life.

What would you spend the money on? Where would you go on holiday? Would you pack in your job? Which of your friends and family would get a slice of your good fortune? How much would you give to charity?

But once the initial endorphin rush has subsided, could depositing a multi-million pound lump sum into your bank account actually have a bitter ending?

Lottery winners are plagued by tales of bad financial management, bankruptcy and irreconcilable family rifts.

Can we change your mind about winning the lottery? Try our mind changer below: 

Is winning the lottery a curse?

 

8:15PM

Can't find your ticket or spilled coffee all over it? Don't panic

Searching around frantically for your ticket now but can't find it? It can happen to anyone.

Don't worry - there are ways around it. 

Here's our FAQ for what to do when your ticket is damaged or lost:

Damaged lottery tickets

 

8:10PM

The biggest jackpots

The record jackpot won on January 9 was £66 million, it has been shared between two ticket holders (only one has successfully claimed the prize so far).

The largest prize ever won on a single Lotto line was £22.5 million banked by work colleagues Mark Gardiner and Paul Maddison from Hastings in 1995.

The biggest ever individual Lotto winner is Iris Jeffrey from Belfast who won £20.1 million in 2004.

Colin and Chris Weir from Largs, North Ayrshire, who banked £161 million in a EuroMillions jackpot in 2011, are the biggest British winners ever.

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8:00PM

The countdown is on

With only half an hour to go until the lottery numbers are drawn, best keep everything crossed for your lucky numbers to come up.

But while you wait, here's some advice from previous winners on what to do after bagging the jackpot. Just in case. 

What's it like to win the Lottery?

 

7:42PM

Six things that you could buy with £25 million

While most of us are trying to make our own lunches, to walk rather than pay for transport and to turn off the heating while we're out, living as a millionaire is a different ball game altogether. 

Here's what tonight's winner could get for £25 million.

  1. 17pc of Barcelona forward Lionel Messi

  2. Over 300,000 bottles of air

  3. Half of the world's most expensive earrings 

  4. 250,000 bottles of English sparkling wine

  5. 3pc of Jay Z (not to mention Beyonce)

  6. 2.5 million copies of Harry Styles' new album

7:28PM

Alert: Two minutes left to buy your lottery ticket

Go, go, go! You have two minutes left to buy a lottery ticket for tonight's big draw

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7:20PM

A brief history of the National Lottery

Lotteries have been around since the classical period, but the first recorded UK lottery was in 1566 - Queen Elizabeth I wanted to raise funds for the Royal Navy and to develop British ports.

The National Lottery was introduced onto our TV sets in 1994, set up by John Major’s government and franchised to Camelot, which still runs the lottery now.

However, no one became a millionaire in that first televised UK lottery, presented by Noel Edmonds and watched by 22 million people. 

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BBC's Saturday night's National Lottery draw show was axed from the schedule late last year, as viewer numbers had dropped to around 3 million, and it can now only be watched digitally. 

And - fun fact - the least drawn number in the history of the National Lottery is actually 13.

7:00PM

It could be you... maybe

If you enter tonight’s National Lottery, you may be six times more likely to win the jackpot (with a one in 7.5 million chance), but what does that really mean?

To put it into context, here are the odds of other things happening to you.

You’re more likely to win tonight's jackpot than:

  • Become an astronaut, for which you have a one in 12 million chance

  • Give birth to identical quadruplets which has odds of one in 13 million

  • Be attacked by a shark , with a one in 11.5 million chance

But you’re less likely to win the jackpot than:

  • Win an Academy Award. There's a 1 in 11,500 chance this will happen

  • Be struck by lightning, for which there's a one in 2.3 million chance

  • Go out with a millionaire (which is actually surprisingly likely at one in 215)

Statistician Rob Mastrodomenico, 36, founder of consultancy Global Sports Statistics, told The Telegraph: “They’ve made it extremely difficult to win. When you look at the things you would compare it to, like being struck by lightning, you see how difficult it is.”

6:40PM

But what to buy?

Whether it’s a yacht, a case of Cristal champagne or a down-payment on a house, everyone has their own ideas on what they would do with a huge National Lottery win.

For many of us, we may never get to ‘make it rain’, but there are a select set of people who have.

Here are some of the things previous Lottery winners have splashed out on (in case you wanted any ideas).

  • A holiday complex in Lyme Regis

  • Their favourite seafood restaurant

  • A distillery in Ireland

  • Their local football club

  • Breast enlargements for their sisters

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the lowdown: what lottery winners do with their cash

 

6:20PM

That’s the name of the game

What’s in a name? Well it could matter more than you think. If your name is John, David or Michael, or Margaret, Susan or Patricia, then figures show you’re more likely to win the lottery.

This could partly be because the statistics take into account all lottery wins since it began, but the odds don’t look great for the Apple’s and the Blue Ivy’s of the world.

Where you live could also swing a win in your favour, and the National Lottery has compiled a list of the best postcodes to live in if you want to win big. The question is: do you live in any of the ‘top tier’ winning areas?

10 luckiest National Lottery postcodes - do you live in one?

 

6:00PM

There's still time to buy a lottery ticket

Good afternoon and welcome to The Telegraph's National Lottery liveblog, where we'll be with you in the run-up to the National Lottery draw at 8.30pm.

You've still got time to buy your lottery ticket for tonight, with sales closing at 7.30pm, so make a note of your lucky numbers and visit the National Lottery website to enter. 

Former Lottery winner Mark Gardiner has some sage advice for tonight's winner (or winners). We promise we're not getting ahead of ourselves...

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