The European lotto was in the beginning set-up by the national lotteries of Spain, the UK and France and was revealed in February-04. The 1st lotto draw was on Feb 13th-04 in Paris. The France, Spain and the UK were the only nations partaking in the beginning but lotteries from Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium also got active in October 2004.
The Euro millions lotto or the Euro lotto, as it is ordinarily better-known, pools the lotto ticket revenues of the nine partaking Euro countries giving a gigantic European Lottery jackpot. With the number of nations joining the Euro on the increase, that will without question will lead to even more states partaking in the Euro lotto. An increase in the amount of individuals partaking in the Euro millions lottery will result in a continued growth of the already sizeable Euro Lotto jackpots.
Q. How Would You Play The Euro Lottery?
Each and every participant has to choose 5 primary numbers from 1 to 50 and 2 Lucky-star numbers from 1 to 9. During the lottery draw, five primary and two lucky star numbers are then chosen at random from two lotto draw machines containing numbered balls.
European Lottery Winnings
The probability of scooping the Euromillions jackpot is a far-off 1 : 76 million but the chances of winning a money prize is a fairly decent one in 24. When the jack-pot is not won in a given lotto draw, it is brought forward to the next lottery draw which results in an ever increasing “jackpot” prize. New regulations brought in on the 09/02/2007 limit the amount of successive rollovers to eleven, with the “jackpot” rolled out to smaller prize levels succeeding the 11th lottery draw if the prize is not won.
The new rules likewise initiated Euro Lottery Super-Draw which happen twice yearly and offer jackpots in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super Draws is that the jackpot has to be collected during the calendar week of the draw; this means, if there is no lotto ticket corresponding, all the numbers drawn and top prize will then be allotted to the ticket bearer(s) on the next winning prize level.
