Could it be you? Lottery fever sweeps Britain as record £95m EuroMillions jackpot up for grabs

Tickets were sold in Britain at a rate of around 700,000 an hour and one Birmingham newsagent told a newspaper: "It's crazy here. I have never known anything like it. People are forgetting about our national lottery to have a go at the big one."

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The odds of winning this week's jackpot are 76,000,000/1, according to bookmakers William Hill.

Spokesman Rupert Adams said: "The only thing we might offer odds of 76million to one about are the world ending on a specific date. As in theory it would be all but impossible to collect the winnings for the end of the world."

The bookmakers have published a list of events that would carry equivalent odds to winning this week's lottery.

These include England coach Fabio Capello picking himself for England and scoring a hat-trick in the 2010 World Cup final, for the Queen to abdicate and Posh Spice to be the crowned in her place and for the Natural History Museum to confirm that dinosaurs became extinct due to tobacco addiction.

Oh and Pete Doherty to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury.

The £95million prize will be the biggest pay-out of its kind if it is won by a single player.

Larger lottery prizes have been won in the US but the actual payouts were lower either due to tax or because winners opted for smaller one-off lump sums. The huge EuroMillions prize cannot roll over again after Friday night's draw.

If no player matches all seven winning numbers, the estimated £95 million top prize will be distributed among winners in the next prize level.

The draw will be broadcast at 11.35pm on BBC One on Friday - the first EuroMillions draw to be aired on UK terrestrial television.

Presenter Tim Vincent will host the new EuroMillions weekly televised draw, along with Sarah Cawood. He said: "It's going to be quite something to reveal those seven lucky numbers each week. I have my fingers crossed for everyone."

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Glasgow postal administrator Angela Kelly scooped £35.4 million on the EuroMillions jackpot last August. She now earns £5,000 a day in interest alone.

EuroMillions is played in the UK and eight other countries: France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland. It was launched by Camelot on Saturday February 7, 2004.