Lottery jackpot records:

EuroMillions is a pan-European lottery, with odds of 1 in 116,531,800 (1 in 76,275,360 before may 2011) and a minimum jackpot of €15 million ($21 million U.S. dollars).

The largest single-ticket Euromillions payout of £113 million was won by an anonymous British ticket-holder on 8 October 2010
In July 2005, housewife Dolores McNamara, a resident of Limerick, Ireland, won a tax-free lump sum of €115,436,126 when she hit a nine-week rollover jackpot.

On February 3, 2006, EuroMillions had a prize of €183 million, which was shared between three winning tickets, two in France and one in Portugal, each winning €61,191,026.

In May 2009, a 25-year-old woman from Mallorca, Spain won a EuroMillions jackpot of €126,231,764. The jackpot had accumulated after rolling over for 7 consecutive draws. It is rumoured that she was suffering from flu and was getting ready to go back into work before she found out about her winnings. She quit from her job within minutes of finding out.