EASTER weekend could be better than ever for a EuroMillions player holding the £83million winning ticket.

The huge cash prize is up for grabs tomorrow night as the National Lottery celebrates the bank holiday weekend.

One lucky player could become £83million richer this weekend

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One lucky player could become £83million richer this weekendCredit: Getty

The life-changing sum will be awarded to the punter who has the correct five main numbers plus two lucky stars.

But players who have other combinations could still come away laughing.

Five main numbers and just one lucky star could score someone £130,554.305 while five main numbers could make a player £13,561.20 richer.

Four main numbers and two lucky stars could bag a contender £844.70.

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Every EuroMillions ticket also gives automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker, which guarantees at least one player will pocket £1million in every draw.

The first EuroMillions draw took place on February 7, 2004, by three organisations: France’s Française des Jeux, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and the Camelot in the UK.

One of the UK’s biggest prizes was up for grabs on December, 4, 2020 with a whopping £175million EuroMillions jackpot, which would make a winner richer than Adele.

Another previous UK winner who’s whole life was altered with their jackpot was a player who wanted to remain anonymous on October 8, 2019. They walked off with a cool £170,221,000.

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Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in Scotland, netted a huge £161,653,000 in the July 12, 2011.

Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Haverhill, Suffolk, picked up £148,656,000 after they played the draw on August, 10, 2012, while Jane Park became Britain’s youngest lottery winner when she scooped up £1 million in 2013.

The odds of winning any EuroMillions prize are 1 in 13.

TOP 5 BIGGEST LOTTERY WINS IN THE WORLD

  1. £1.308 billion (Powerball) on January 13 2016 in the US, for which three winning tickets were sold, remains history’s biggest lottery prize
  2. £1.267 billion (Mega Million) a winner from South Carolina took their time to come forward to claim their prize in March 2019 not long before the April deadline
  3. £633.76 million (Powerball draw) from a winner from Wisconsin
  4. £625.76 million (Powerball)  Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts claimed the jackpot in August 2017
  5. £575.53 million (Powerball)  A lucky pair of winners scooped the jackpot in Iowa and New York in October 2018

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