The Euro Millions lottery was to begin with launched by the national lotteries of France, Spain and the United Kingdom and was unveiled in Feb-04. The first lottery draw was on Feb 13th 04 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 also became involved in October 2004.

The euromillions lotto or the Euro lotto, as it’s usually recognized, gathers the lotto ticket receipts of the 9 partaking European countries showing a whopping Euro lottery jack-pot. With the number of countries joining the Euro on the increase, this will without question will lead to more countries participating in the Euro lotto. A growth in the number of people partaking in the European Lotto will lead to a continued growth of the already huge European Lottery jackpots.

Q. How Would You Play The European Lottery

Every participant has to choose five main numbers from 1 to 50 plus two Lucky Star numbers from one to nine. During the lottery draw, 5 main and 2 lucky-star numbers are then selected at random from two lottery draw machines containing numbered lottery balls.

Euro Lotto Awards

The chances of scooping the Euro Millions jackpot is a distant one : 76 million but the odds of winning a cash prize is a somewhat decent one : twenty four. When the jackpot is not won in a given week, it is carried over to the following lotto draw which results in an ever increasing jackpot prize. Recent regulations added on the 09 February 2007 specify the amount of consecutive roll-overs to eleven, with the jack-pot rolled out to lower prize levels succeeding the 11th lotto draw if the prize is not collected.

The recent regulations also initiated Euro Millions Super Draw which come about twice annually plus they offer “jackpots” in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super-Draws is that the jack-pot has to be collected during the calendar week of the draw; this means, if there is no lottery ticket corresponding, all the numbers drawn and the top prize will then be distributed to the lotto ticket holder(s) in the succeeding winning prize tier.

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