The lottery prize is now up at CHF 53.2m after no player choose the right numbers yesterday.
The next draw will be on Saturday. If a single person gets all the right numbers at the weekend – they will be the biggest winner in the 50 years of the lottery.
The previous record win was in 2014 when a person won CHF 48.5m.
The lottery has created 173 millionaires since 1970.
'On the Water Festival' great success
Nearly 3,000 people took to Lake Geneva on Saturday for the second edition of the ‘On The Water Geneva Festival’ — dancing from their boats to music blasted out in 360 degrees from a floating barge.
Nearly a million for Zurich parade
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Woman found dead on Mont-Blanc
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Sugar beet crop wiped out
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Summer ski areas close
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Russia gets involved with upcoming neutrality vote
Russia is openly campaigning for a yes vote on the upcoming neutrality referendum.
