Lottery winners: Lancashire man becomes a millionaire overnight after winning EuroMillions draw

Known only as Mr. R from Lancashire, the mystery winner has scooped a whopping £1,000,000 prize in the EuroMillions European Millionaire Maker event drawn on Friday, February 3.

EuroMillions Millionaire Maker guarantees to create a millionaire in every draw but the special draw on February 3 saw 100 millionaires made in one night across the European EuroMillions community with 30 of these prizes won by ticket-holders in the UK. With the usual UK Millionaire Maker winner, 31 UK players instantly became £1,000,000 richer in the draw, including Mr. R.

The Lancashire local, who played a Lucky Dip via the National Lottery app, has become one of over eight million players that win each week on The National Lottery’s range of games. Interactive winners have the opportunity to release their name, remain anonymous or like Mr. R, release some details through partial publicity.

Camelot’s Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said: “What incredible news for Mr. R for winning this fantastic prize, he has become a millionaire overnight and can look forward to making amazing memories as the latest National Lottery winner.”

Whether you have your own special numbers or prefer to play using a Lucky Dip like Mr. R, national-lottery.co.uk says it makes playing simple and easy. By setting up an online National Lottery Direct Debit you can guarantee that you never miss out, and never have a ticket to worry about.

At national-lottery.co.uk, players can buy tickets for all of The National Lottery’s draw-based games including EuroMillions, Lotto, Set For Life and Thunderball. Once they have registered and set up an account, they can also play a range of online Instant Win Games.

For every EuroMillions line played, UK players automatically receive a EuroMillions Millionaire Maker code printed on their ticket creating a millionaire in every draw.

Thanks to National Lottery players, £30M is generated each week for National Lottery-funded projects. This money helps support everything from the local charity making a difference where you live through to helping our nations' athletes win medals at last summer’s Commonwealth Games. To date, over £47BN has been raised for National Lottery Good Causes, with more than 670,000 individual grants awarded.