Lucky Lotto player won £7.4M National Lottery jackpot

A lucky Lotto player won a whopping sum of £7.4 million playing National Lottery game from this weekend's Lotto draw.

The winning numbers were: 01, 03, 05, 17, 50, 52. They were the only jackpot winner, so will take the entire £7,444,049 for themselves.

The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery established in 1994 in the United Kingdom.

Players buy tickets with their choice of six different numbers between 1 and 59; there is provision for random numbers to be generated automatically for those who do not wish to choose, known as a 'Lucky Dip'. The entry fee to the Lotto draw was set at £1 per board from its introduction, and increased to £2 in October 2013.