The colossal €209 million Italian SuperEnalotto jackpot has been won by a lucky ticket holder who purchased the winning ticket from at a bar in the northern city of Lodi near Milan.
Costing just two euros, the single winning ticket matched all the numbers on Tuesday nights draw, 7, 32, 41, 59, 75 and 76.
The identity of the new multi-millionaire has not revealed, but the manager of the store that sold the valuable ticket was only too happy to speak to Italian media.
'How can we know who bought it...
'There was a constant flow today; people were coming in and asking for a ticket at random.
'And I printed it (the winning ticket), I printed it.'
The winner has 90 days from the date of the draw to collect the fortune from one of the Sisal offices in Milan or Rome. Once the result is validated, the money will be paid by bank transfer.
Now into the record books, the huge jackpot won supersedes the previous record of €177 million which was claimed by a syndicate of 70 players back in October 2010.
The odds of winning the top prize are pretty slim, 1 in 622,614,630, but there are lots of other ways to win in each draw. The overall odds of winning any prize being 1 in 16 when selecting the SuperStar option.
The jackpot has been reset to a sizable pot of €50 million for the next draw on Saturday. If you want to take part online from overseas visit theLotter where you can enter a selection of more than 50 official world lotteries.
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