The Euro Millions lottery was in the first place set-up by the national lotteries of Spain, the United Kingdom and France and was unveiled on February 04. The initial lotto draw was on February 13th-04 in Paris. The United Kingdom, France and Spain were the only nations partaking in the beginning but lotteries from Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium also got involved in October 2004.
The Euro millions lotto or the Euro lotto, as it’s commonly better-known, gathers the ticket receipts of the 9 partaking Euro countries giving a huge Euro Millions jackpot. With the sum of countries joining the EU on the increase, this will without question will lead to new countries partaking in the Euro Millions lottery. A growth in the number of people partaking in the Euro millions lotto will result in a continuing increase of the already gigantic Euro Millions “jackpots”.
Q. How To Play The EuroMillions Lotto?
Each player must pick out 5 primary numbers from one to fifty and 2 Lucky Star numbers from one to nine. During the lotto draw, 5 main and 2 lucky-star numbers are then chosen at random from two draw machines containing numbered balls.
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The chances of scooping up the European Lottery jack-pot is a distant one : seventy-six million but the chances of acquiring a cash prize is a fairly decent one : twenty-four. When the “jackpot” is not won in a given lottery draw, it is carried forward to the next lottery draw that will result in an ever increasing jackpot prize. New rules added on the 9/02/2007 restrict the number of consecutive rollovers to eleven, with the “jackpot” rolled out to smaller prize levels on the 11th draw when the prize is not won.
The new rules likewise initiated Euro Lotto Super-Draw which happen twice yearly plus they offer jack-pots in the region of £100 million. The difference with Super-Draws is that the jack-pot must be collected during the calendar week of the lottery draw; as a result, if there is no ticket matching, all the drawn numbers then the top prize will be allotted to the lottery ticket holder(s) in the next winning prize tier.
