Hunt for owner of £76m lottery ticket bought in Boston and Skegness continues

The owner of a EuroMillions lottery ticket worth more than £76million is being urged to come forward to claim the prize.

Officials at the National Lottery said the winning ticket, bought in the Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire remains unclaimed.

The ticket holder is due a total of £76,369,806.80 after matching the winning five main numbers and both Lucky Stars on the 2 November draw.

“This is the biggest ever unclaimed prize, so there’s been quite a lot of interest,“ a National Lottery spokesperson said.

The winning number were 5, 15, 17, 37, 44 and the Lucky Star numbers were 7 and 11.

Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at the National Lottery, said: “We’re desperate to find this mystery ticket holder and unite them with their winnings and we’re urging everyone to try checking in the pockets of clothing, in wallets, bags, down the back of the sofa and anywhere a missing ticket could be hiding – someone out there could literally be sitting on a fortune.”

He added that lottery organisers already have have "the champagne on ice and our fingers crossed".

The winner has until 1 May 2019 to claim the jackpot. If no-one comes forward by the deadline the prize money, plus the interest it has generated, will go to lottery-funded projects.

The previous largest prize to go unclaimed was in 2012 when a ticket owner in Hertfordshire missed out on £64m.