443Euromillions plus Something You Might Not Know. How it Functions, Who it Applies to plus How You Can Play this Giant European Lottery
posted on April 2nd, 2009
The Euromillions lottery was to begin with set up by the national lotteries of France, Spain and the United Kingdom and was unveiled on February 2004. The opening lottery draw was on February 13th 2004 in Paris. The Spain, France and the UK were the only nations partaking in the beginning but lotteries from Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Portugal likewise got engaged on October 2004.
The Euromillions lottery or the Euro Lottery, as it is normally best-known, gathers the ticket revenues of the nine partaking European countries delivering a gigantic Euro Lotto jack-pot. With the amount of countries joining the Euro on the increase, this will without question will lead to new countries partaking in the EuroMillions lotto. A growth in the number of individuals partaking in the Euro Lottery will result in a continued growth of the already massive Euro Lotto jackpots.
Q. How Would You Play The Euro millions Lottery?
Each participant has to select 5 main numbers from 1 to 50 and two Lucky-star numbers from 1 to 9. During the lottery draw, 5 primary plus two lucky-star numbers are then chosen at random from 2 lotto draw machines containing numbered lotto balls.
Euromillions Prizes
The chances of scooping up the Euromillions “jackpot” is a far-off 1 in seventy six million but the possibility of winning a money prize is a somewhat decent one : 24. If the jackpot is not won on a given week, it is carried forward to the next lotto draw that will result in an ever increasing “jackpot” prize. Recent rules brought in on the 09.02.2007 define the amount of consecutive rollovers to eleven, with the “jackpot” rolled out to smaller prize levels in the eleventh lottery draw when the prize is not won.
The recent regulations also initiated European Super-Draw which go on twice yearly plus they offer “jackpots” in the region of £100 million. The difference with Super-Draws is that the “jackpot” has to be won during the week of the lottery draw; as a result, if there is no lottery ticket matching, all the drawn numbers then the top prize will be distributed to the lotto ticket bearer(s) on the next winning prize level.
