PUNTERS looking to try their luck for tonight's huge £136million EuroMillions jackpot are furious as the website keeps crashing.

Lottery hopefuls have branded Camelot a "shambles" after thousands have been left unable to grab a last-minute ticket for the draw.

Irate customers took to twitter to vent their frustrations as the deadline to buy tickets approached.

Twitter user @rachel_16 wrote: “Can everyone kindly get off the National Lottery site so I can buy my winning ticket please?”

Emma Longhurst tweeted: “If my numbers are drawn tonight @NationalLottery then you and your web team are in big troubles”

And Jeremy Woodrow said: "National Lottery website is a shambles #noeuromillions"

National Lottery responded to the furious messages with a tweet of its own.

It wrote: "It is currently peak time for Ticket purchasing therefore our website will be a little slower than normal."

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If tonight’s huge jackpot was collected by a single ticket-holder in the UK, it would be enough to make them the third biggest lottery winner in the country ever.

A single player who matched all five main numbers and two Lucky Star numbers would be the joint 752nd richest person in Britain, based on the Sunday Times Rich List.

But nobody claims the mammoth prize, it will roll over again to Tuesday's draw.

The biggest lottery win in Europe is still Brits Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, who scooped nearly £162million on EuroMillions July 2011.

Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Haverhill, Suffolk, picked up a tidy £148.6million in 2012.

And an anonymous ticket-holder won £113million in October 2010.

Andy Carter, the National Lottery's senior winners' adviser, said: “It is looking like it will be another record-breaking year for EuroMillions and I can't wait to meet another giant UK winner.

“Needless to say the Champagne is on ice and giant cheque at the ready to celebrate an extraordinary win.”

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