September: Record Lottery Jackpot – 3 – Europe Lotteries Lump Sum

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The largest large lump sum payments in European Lotteries include:

* In July 2005, housewife Dolores McNamara, a resident of Limerick, Ireland, won a tax-free lump sum of €115,436,126 ($198 million U.S. dollars) when she hit a nine-week rollover jackpot.

* On February 3, 2006, EuroMillions had a prize of €183 million ($261 million U.S. dollars), which was shared between three winning tickets, two in France and one in Portugal, each winning €61,191,026 ($87 million U.S. dollars).

* In May 2009, a 25-year-old woman from Mallorca, Spain won a EuroMillions jackpot of €126,231,764 ($180 million U.S. dollars). The jackpot had accumulated after rolling over for 7 consecutive draws.[1]

* German National Lottery biggest lottery winning of €37,600,000 ($53 million U.S. dollars) was taken on 7 October 2006.

* Largest UK prize was hit on 6 January 1996 and totaled at £42,000,000 ($69 million U.S. dollars).

* The Irish National Lottery has a guaranteed jackpot of €2 million ($2 million U.S. dollars) for each of its twice-weekly Lotto draws.

* The largest ever jackpot of €18,963,441 ($27 million U.S. dollars) was won on June 28, 2008 by a syndicate of sixteen work colleagues at a quarry and concrete plant in County Carlow.