Jackpot win places mystery ticket-holder sixth on National Lottery rich list and joint-908th on Sunday Times rich list
A Briton has scooped £81m by landing the EuroMillions jackpot.
The mystery winner's haul is not the largest ever won on the lottery but puts the ticket-holder sixth on the National Lottery rich list.
A National Lottery spokesman said: "We've been giving the rest of Europe a chance to win big this year but lady luck is clearly shining back down on the UK once again.
"This new jackpot-winning ticket-holder flies into sixth place in the exclusive National Lottery rich list just behind an anonymous ticket-holder who won £84.4m in May 2010.
According to the Sunday Times rich list of 2012, winning £80m would make you the joint-908th-richest person in the country.
The lucky winner is just £10m short of the music legend Brian May, who is worth £90m, but can boast of being four times richer than Adele, who has a fortune of £20m.
The life-changing sum would enable the winner to buy their own Greek island, such as Omfori Island, which has a current price tag of just over £40m, a Lamborghini Veneno, one of the world's most expensive cars at a cost of £2.5m, a dinosaur-bone-encrusted iPad 2 for £5m, and still have plenty left to spend.
Or the winner could splash all of the money in one single purchase to buy one of the UK's most expensive homes in Regent's Park in London, which sold in March for £80m.
The winning numbers were 34, 38, 13, 08 and 26 and the Lucky Star numbers were 03 and 11.
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