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Tonight's the night if you want to win the world's biggest ever lottery prize of £95m.
Tickets are expected to sell at a rate of 1.5m an hour as punters try to get a slice of the EuroMillions jackpot.
If it is won by a single player the prize would eclipse all previous prizes.
Larger prizes have been won in America but the actual sum paid out to the winners were lower because they opted for smaller one-off lump sums and had to pay tax on their winnings.
EuroMillions highest ever rollover prize was £125m in 2006, but that was split between three winning tickets.
The split meant the winners failed to beat the previous highest jackpot; Irish mother of six Dolores McNamara won £79m in the EuroMillions draw last July.
Last August, Glasgow postal administrator Angela Kelly scooped £35.4m on the EuroMillions lottery.
A spokesman for Camelot said: "British players get very excited when big jackpots come around. We see a huge rise in sales at lunch time and after work."
EuroMillions is played in the UK and eight other countries: France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland.
Tonight's prize cannot roll over again after the draw.
If no player matches all the winning numbers, the £95m will be distributed among winners in the next prize level.
The draw will be broadcast at 11.35pm on BBC1 - the first EuroMillions draw to be aired on UK terrestrial television.
we have a ticket but im not expecting to win
Tickets are expected to sell at a rate of 1.5m an hour as punters try to get a slice of the EuroMillions jackpot.
If it is won by a single player the prize would eclipse all previous prizes.
Larger prizes have been won in America but the actual sum paid out to the winners were lower because they opted for smaller one-off lump sums and had to pay tax on their winnings.
EuroMillions highest ever rollover prize was £125m in 2006, but that was split between three winning tickets.
The split meant the winners failed to beat the previous highest jackpot; Irish mother of six Dolores McNamara won £79m in the EuroMillions draw last July.
Last August, Glasgow postal administrator Angela Kelly scooped £35.4m on the EuroMillions lottery.
A spokesman for Camelot said: "British players get very excited when big jackpots come around. We see a huge rise in sales at lunch time and after work."
EuroMillions is played in the UK and eight other countries: France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland.
Tonight's prize cannot roll over again after the draw.
If no player matches all the winning numbers, the £95m will be distributed among winners in the next prize level.
The draw will be broadcast at 11.35pm on BBC1 - the first EuroMillions draw to be aired on UK terrestrial television.
we have a ticket but im not expecting to win
Good Luck everyone 
did you win Tony !
