On Friday, if you'd remembered to buy your lottery ticket, you would've been one of the millions of people in with a chance of winning over £70 million on the EuroMillions - just imagine that, waking up this morning and finding out you were a multi-millionaire.
And not just any kind of multi-millionaire, either - not your common or garden variety multi-millionaire, that's for sure. No, you'd be a multi-millionaire as rich as Ed Sheeran (or thereabout). The winner will be taking home £76.3m ($99m) for matching five numbers and two lucky star numbers - and it turns out one ticket in the UK matches up.
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Lucky bastard.
The lucky numbers were 05, 15, 17, 37, 44 and the winning Lucky Star numbers are 07 and 11 - the person who matched these will now be close to matching the estimated fortune of by Ed Sheeran (£80m / $103.8m) but surpassing that of James Bond star Daniel Craig (£74m / $96m) and the former One Direction singer, Harry Styles (£50m / $64.9m).
It's even more than the former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who is estimated to be worth a magical £69m ($89.6m).
If anyone won £100m ($129.8m) they'd make it onto the UK's rich list - this was accomplished by Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in North Ayrshire, who won £161m on EuroMillionsback back in 2011, which saw them on a level with Led Zeppelin legends Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.
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The lucky jackpot winner is taking home the biggest UK win in the EuroMillions since Aberdeen pair Fred and Lesley Higgins managed to claim £57.9m back in August, even after an unfortunate incident when their ticket was torn in half.
However, the biggest overall winner of the year anonymously took home a truly eye-watering £121m - an eye-watering, I mean truly sob-worthy figure for the rest of us - back in April, while in Februrary another anonymous lottery player bagged £77m.
Across the pond, in the US, the largest jackpot was a staggering $1.6 billion on the Powerball lottery - unfortunately this was split between three people, but you can't imagine they'd have turned their noses up at the sum they took home instead.
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Might buy a lottery ticket later, actually.
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