Two winners will share a record £66million Lotto jackpot after 400 tickets were sold per second making Camelot £139 million.
The winners are yet to come forward but each ticket holder will receive £33, 035,323.
Thousands were left furious when the website crashed under a flood of last-minute entries, leaving them unable to buy tickets or check their numbers.
But despite the glitch a Camelot said a record number of 70 million tickets were bought with £60 million given to charity.
Lotto ticket buyers were queuing up at stores across the country ahead of last night's huge draw
The winning number for the eye watering £57.8million prize were: 58, 47, 27, 46, 52, 26 - and the bonus ball was 48
Despite the internet meltdown, Britons still spent £2.8million, snapping up 1.4million tickets in stores in the final hour before sales ended.
Thousands were left furious when the website crashed under a flood of last-minute entries, leaving them unable to buy tickets or check their numbers
The jackpot was initially advertised as £58million, which was the most one single person could win even though there was more money in the prize pot.
The winning numbers for the prize were: 58, 47, 27, 46, 52, 26 - and the bonus ball was 48.
Britons spent £2.8million, snapping up 1.4million tickets in stores in the final hour before sales ended.
Already, Lotto players have been reacting to not winning the life changing amount of money on Twitter.
It is back to the day job for Andy Martindale, who wrote: 'Just to confirm I will be at work tomorrow morning.'
There were mixed feelings for Emma Hobbs, who said: 'I WON!!!! ...a free lucky dip.'
Echoing the collective disappointment of millions of players, Sam Kirkpatrick said: 'So that's what it sounds like when an entire nation lets out a disappointed sigh at the same time!'
Some, like Twitter user LJED90, were counting their chickens. He wrote: 'Can't believe I didn't win that, I really thought that £58m was mine id picked out my Manhattan penthouse and everything!'
Other, including Chris, blamed their lack of fortune on the host, saying: 'Noel Edmonds doing the draw.. Somehow, deep down, I knew all along it would be Edmonds keeping me not-rich.'
Embarrassingly for organiser Camelot, the online crash was a repeat of chaos prior to the draw on Wednesday evening - when the jackpot stood at £50.4 million.
One customer claimed they first experienced problems on the website at 2pm yesterday, and it was only working intermittently throughout the afternoon.
Lotto players have been reacting to not winning the life changing amount of money on Twitter
The site fully crashed at 6pm, an hour-and-a-half before sales closed.
Before the crash, people also reported problems with their purchases, complaining they could not view their ticket numbers.
Meanwhile Barclays' Pingit app, which has a built-in function to purchase National Lottery tickets, has also been affected by Lotto website's outage.
Angry customers deluged social media with complaints.
One Twitter user, named Laura, said: 'Why isn't national lottery website working I wanna spend my last tenner on 10 tickets cuz I've already spent that £60m jackpot.'
Another, Emma, tweeted: 'Stupid #NationalLottery website. It never works when you need it.'
Jennie Jordan added: 'National Lottery website is down: disaster. Sent other half out in rain to buy expensive rubbish or life-changing ticket: phew #hopeitsme'.
Sisters Fran and Georgina Townsend, who were among the thousands who did not win the jackpot, from Epsom Downs in Surrey had their fingers crossed as they bought their lottery tickets earlier in the day
Lottery mania is sweeping Britain, with two jackpots available tonight and tomorrow worth a total of more than £100million
Lotto's website seemed to slow on Saturday afternoon as thousands of desperate buyers flocked to buy their tickets online
People were instead urged to buy tickets at the 37,000 retail outlets stocking them.
Today Camelot apologised for the inconvenience. Spokesman Rob Dwight, told MailOnline: 'We're really sorry if some people had problems trying to buy tickets on our website in the run-up to last night’s draw.
'We worked as hard as we could to get our services back up and running as normal. As you can appreciate, we saw unprecedented demand for tickets for the record-breaking Lotto draw.'
Even before the online chaos, Britons descended on corner shops and supermarkets in a bid to grab tickets before the 7.30pm deadline.
In 2012, Romford in Essex was named the luckiest town in Britain after having the highest number of lottery winners – scooping more than £50,000 since the draw began in 1994.
Ronak Patel, 25, who runs Roseland News in the town with his wife Priya, said yesterday's record jackpot led to exceptionally high demand for tickets.
'It's double or treble what we normally have, we've sold thousands,' he added. 'We've had the usual customers but we've also had people who'd never played before and needed to check how to do it, and we had to tell them.'
Romford resident Samantha Saunders- Jones, a 47-year-old mother of two, said: 'I got seven lucky dips, two for me and five for my son. If I won I'd buy myself a house ... and my sister runs her own business so I'd help her with that.
There was no winner of the Lotto jackpot of £50.4million on Wednesday, with the result that it rolls over to tomorrow night and a new record of £57.8million
Mehmet Altun, 44, owner of Priory News in Hornsey, North London, claimed it was the busiest day he had known for almost 20 years.
Even statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter said he had already bought his ticket, despite the odds of winning the jackpot being raised to one in 45 million after the addition of ten extra balls last summer.
An announcement is not expected until after 11pm tonight and will depend on how long the independent auditing and verification process takes.
Camelot told MailOnline that the winners needed to come forward to claim their prize and the tickets would then be validated.
Any winner would enter the same wealth bracket as Wayne Rooney and Kylie Minogue.
The amount they would win would allow them to buy some 372 Ferrari Californias – worth £155,000 each – or even a third share of Aston Villa (admittedly not the most attractive proposition at present).
Experts said there had never been a better chance to win, as new rules mean the jackpot must be paid out even if no one manages to match all six numbers.
But they warned that the odds were still slim at 45 million to one – with bookies saying there was more chance of aliens landing on planet Earth, at a million to one.
The record-breaking prize swelled to £57.8 million after 14 rollovers, including Wednesday night's £50.4 million draw which had no winners.
The new rules, which come into play when a jackpot passes £50 million, mean that in the next draw, a prize is shared between the next tier's winners – those who manage to match five numbers and the bonus ball.
It follows changes to the lottery's format after the number of balls in the draw increased from 49 to 59 in October, reducing the odds of winning from one in 14 million.
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