Lucky Lottery ticket holder scooped a £24.5 million jackpot

A lucky Lottery ticket holder has scooped a £24.5 million jackpot - despite failing to match all six main numbers.

The top prize in tonight's draw had to be won so it rolled down to those that has secured five numbers and a bonus.

As that was secured by only one ticket, the prize winner secured a total of £24,501,283 - the biggest Lotto win this year.

The main numbers were 18, 36, 48, 57, 58, 59 and the bonus ball was 50.

Andy Carter, senior winners' advisor at The National Lottery, said: "Wow - a single ticket-holder has banked the £24.5 million jackpot in this special must be won draw.

"The jackpot rolled down and they only matched five main numbers and the bonus ball to bank the biggest sum won on Lotto in 2017."

Some 66 ticket holders matched five main numbers to win £1,128 while 4,807 matched four to win £99.

There was a £25 prize for 102,060 people who matched three main numbers and 912,973 matched two numbers to win a free lucky dip entry.

A £1 million prize was won by the ticket with the Millionaire Raffle code NAVY 2917 0843 while 20 tickets each won £20,000 in the raffle draw.

Draw machine Guinevere and set of balls four were used.

One person won the £350,000 top prize in the Lotto HotPicks draw which uses the same numbers.

Nobody won the top prize in the Thunderball draw where the numbers were 04, 15, 16, 27 and 32. The Thunderball was 03.

Saturday's estimated Lotto jackpot is £3.2 million. - Mirror