{"id":653337,"date":"2025-12-25T02:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653337\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T02:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:43:14","slug":"national-lottery-results-prizes-boosted-for-all-winners-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653337\/","title":{"rendered":"National Lottery results: Prizes boosted for all winners | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"National Lottery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/national-lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Lottery<\/a> player became a multi-millionaire tonight, as nobody won the \u00a315million jackpot. The <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2150342\/national-lottery-winning-numbers-24-december-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas Eve draw<\/a> didn&#8217;t see anybody matching the six winning numbers, the National Lottery said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This, however, was good news for thousands of players, who are seeing a boosted cash prize. This is because tonight was a Lotto Must Be Won draw. This means that, with no one winning the jackpot, a &#8216;rolldown&#8217; had to occur.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the major \u00a315m jackpot is being divided and shared for players matching two or more main numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three players who got a &#8216;match 5 + bonus&#8217; are to receive \u00a31,063,399 rather than the planned \u00a31million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the 119 people who matched five drawn numbers will get a major boost, set to receive \u00a34,413 each rather than \u00a31,750.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 7,807 &#8216;match 4&#8217; winners are to receive a rolldown prize of \u00a3196 rather than \u00a3140.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The thousands of winners matching three numbers tonight will get \u00a359 rather than \u00a330 each, and the &#8216;match 2&#8217; winners will get \u00a35 on top of the expected free lotto lucky dip.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s National Lottery Lotto winning numbers were: 12, 15, 16, 35, 38, 48, with 49 as the bonus ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderball winning numbers were: 06, 10, 11, 29, 33, with the Thunderball being 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No player scooped the top prize of \u00a3500,000 by matching all five numbers plus the Thunderball, but two players matched five numbers to win \u00a35,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>After tonight&#8217;s draw, the Saturday\u2019s Lotto jackpot will be an estimated \u00a33.8million.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No National Lottery player became a multi-millionaire tonight, as nobody won the \u00a315million jackpot. The Christmas Eve draw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16178,14982,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-653337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-lottery-section","10":"tag-national-lottery","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115777909961500905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}