The Euro Millions lottery was in the beginning established by the national lotteries of France, Spain and the UK and was disclosed in Feb 04. The 1st 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 Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg and Portugal also became engaged in Oct-04.

The euro millions lotto or the Euro lotto, as it’s commonly recognized, pools the lottery ticket revenues of the 9 partaking European countries showing a giant Euromillions jackpot. With the amount of countries joining the Euro on the increase, that will without question will lead to more countries participating in the Euro Millions lotto. A growth in the number of people partaking in the Euro Lotto will result in a prolonged growth of the already whopping Euro Millions “jackpots”.

Q. How Would You Play The Euro Millions Lotto?

Every player has to pick out 5 main numbers from one to fifty and two Lucky Star numbers from 1 to 9. During the lottery draw, five main and two “lucky-star” numbers are then chosen at random from 2 lottery draw machines containing numbered lotto balls.

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The chances of scooping the European Lottery “jackpot” is a distant one in seventy six million but the possibility of winning a money prize is a fairly decent 1 in 24. When the “jackpot” is not won in a given week, it is brought forward to the next week which results in an ever increasing jack-pot prize. Recent rules added on the 9th of February 2007 restrict the number of successive roll-overs to 11, with the jack-pot rolling out to lower value levels on the eleventh lottery draw when the prize is not collected.

The recent rules likewise initiated Euro Lottery “Super Draw” which happen twice each year and 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 lotto draw; this means, when there is no lottery ticket matching, all the numbers drawn and the top prize will then be allotted to the ticket holder(s) on the next winning prize tier.