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Numbers drawn in triple rollover Two scoop £18.7m lottery jackpot
(about 3 hours later)
The winning numbers in the triple rollover Lotto draw - with an estimated jackpot of £18.50m - were 8, 15, 24, 31, 37, 42 and the bonus number was 45. Two winners shared the £18.7m Lotto jackpot, organisers Camelot said. Wednesday's estimated lottery jackpot stands at £2.6m.
National Lottery organiser Camelot said three million tickets were being sold every hour for ahead of the draw. The numbers drawn were 8, 15, 42, 24, 37, 31 and the bonus number was 45. The set of balls used was four and draw machine was Topaz. Nineteen tickets matched five numbers plus the bonus ball to win £118,218.
It was only the second triple rollover since the lottery began in 1994. The Thunderball draw was 25, 15, 1, 20, 7 and the Thunderball number was 9. One winner scooped the £250,000 top prize.
The draw has to be won and if there is no jackpot winner, then the money will be distributed among the next category of winning ticket holders. In Lotto HotPicks, there were no winners for the top prize of £130,000 for matching five numbers.
The Thunderball numbers were 1, 7, 15, 20, 25, and the Thunderball was 9. In Dream Number, there were no winners for the top prize of £500,000 for matching seven numbers. The winning numbers were 9,3,4,4,4,0 and 9.
The winning numbers in the Lotto Dream Number game were 9, 3, 4, 4, 4, 0, 9.
The rate of ticket sales for the Lotto draw was 50% higher than normal and there is a chance that the record single prize, of £20.1m, could be beaten.
The last such rollover draw saw six ticket holders win £3.7m each.