EuroMillionsGuide.com » Learn The Basics http://www.euromillionsguide.com Are You Looking For EuroMillions Information Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:01:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 The Start of Euro Millions http://www.euromillionsguide.com/learn-the-basics/the-start-of-euro-millions.htm http://www.euromillionsguide.com/learn-the-basics/the-start-of-euro-millions.htm#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:08:07 +0000 admin http://www.euromillionsguide.com/?p=67 At the outset a lottery game played only across Europe, the EuroMillions is now also open to players outside the European states. It consists of 50 numbers where players will opt for their first five numbers from 1 to 50 and the next two numbers referred to as the “lucky stars” from 1 to 9. All things considered, players have to decide on their seven numbers from fifty numbers or 7 out of 50.
The EuroMillions was unveiled by the Française des Jeux in France, the Loterias y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and Camelot in the United Kingdom on Saturday, the 7th of February 2004. The initial draw took place on Friday, the 13th of February 2004 in Paris. The countries primarily involved were the United Kingdom, France and Spain.

In the present day, EuroMillions is considered Europe’s biggest jackpot game of chance and is currently being played in countries like Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

EuroMillions Ticket Prices and Draws

EuroMillions ticket costs in the United Kingdom are £1.50 per line.  Buy lottery tickets cost 2 Euro per line in countries where the Euro is the official currency. A “Plus” option is available in the Republic of Ireland and these tickets cost 3 Euro.

In the United Kingdom, tickets can be bought in the same retail outlets that are selling tickets for the National Lottery. Tickets can also be procured online at the National Lottery website. Players must be at least 16 years old to be able to play.

Weekly draws go off on Friday evenings. In the United Kingdom, the draw is televised on BBC 1 at around 11:35 PM where the draw itself takes place in Paris.

The EuroMillions Top Prize

The jackpot prize is distributed among the jackpot winners in all the states taking part in the lottery. All further prizes are disseminated among the players in the partaking states in proportion to the amount of money received for tickets sold. All prizes in the United Kingdom, as well as the jackpot, are free from tax.

The EuroMillions United Kingdom is not related with the National Lottery. The EuroMillions United Kingdom website offers an unbiased and autonomous information resource for people in the United Kingdom who desire to play the EuroMillions lottery.

]]> http://www.euromillionsguide.com/learn-the-basics/the-start-of-euro-millions.htm/feed The Euro Lottery EuroMillions http://www.euromillionsguide.com/learn-the-basics/the-euro-lottery-euromillions.htm http://www.euromillionsguide.com/learn-the-basics/the-euro-lottery-euromillions.htm#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:44:06 +0000 admin http://www.euromillionsguide.com/?p=5 The EuroMillions or Euro lottery, formulated in France, UK, and Spain started selling lottery tickets on Saturday, July 7, 2004. And in Paris, France the first lottery draw took place on Friday, February 13, 2004. Although the only participating countries at the start were Spain, United Kingdom, and France, by October 2004 six other countries joined: Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Switzerland.

All nine countries combine the total of all Euro lottery tickets, making a supersized jackpot, and the growth of the European Union will lead to more citizens buying EuroMillions tickets, causing the jackpot to grow even more. You heard right. More people playing the lottery equals more money to be won and even larger jackpots than what we already have.

This is how you play EuroMillions

It’s simple, really. You pick seven numbers. You choose five numbers from 1 to 50, and two Lucky-Star numbers from 1 to 9. Then every Friday, two machines randomly pick a set of five numbers and a set of two numbers.

The odds of winning EuroMillions

If you want to win the jackpot, you have a 1 in 76 million chances to do it, but to win any prize at all, you have a 1 in 24 chance, and that’s not bad. One great thing about EuroMillions is that if nobody wins the jackpot, it rolls over into the next week, growing larger each time it rolls over, and the Euro lottery jackpot can get as high as 50 million Euros. Because of a new rule effective on February 9, 2007, the jackpot can only roll over 11 times. If no one wins the jackpot on the eleventh roll over, then the prize money is used to increase the lower prizes, and that means more money for the average winner.

The Euro lottery made another rule for Super Draws. Super Draws give out a total of about 100 million Euros, and it takes place two times a year.

EuroMillions big payouts

Sixteen people won the Super Draw jackpot on February 8, 2008 by choosing five of the main winning numbers and one of the Luck Star winning numbers. They took home 8.6 million Euros each, making the total for that EuroMillions lottery jackpot a whopping 130 million Euros.

The highest EuroMillions lottery payout in the UK went to forty-year-old Angela Kelly on August 10, 2007. She was a postal administrator from Scotland.

On November 17, 2006 the EuroMillions jackpot rolled over eleven times, bringing the total to 183 million Euros, which was shared by 20 happy winners.

Who can play EuroMillions?

You must be a resident in one of the nine participating countries in order to play EuroMillions lottery, unless you buy a ticket online. E-lottery (supporting more than 133 states) makes it possible for almost anyone from anywhere to buy a lottery ticket. To significantly increase your chances of winning, you may wish to join a syndicate. By joining a Euro lotto syndicate, you bump your chances up by 36 times.

]]> http://www.euromillionsguide.com/learn-the-basics/the-euro-lottery-euromillions.htm/feed An Introduction to EuroMillions http://www.euromillionsguide.com/learn-the-basics/an-introduction-to-euromillions.htm http://www.euromillionsguide.com/learn-the-basics/an-introduction-to-euromillions.htm#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:44:05 +0000 admin http://www.euromillionsguide.com/?p=3 You might not have heard of EuroMillions lottery also called the European lottery. Well, it’s a lottery with big prizes and even larger jackpots, and draws are held every Friday in Paris. The jackpots are often huge because nine countries pool the winnings together, which are, Austria (Austrian State Lottery), Belgium (Loterie Nationale de Belgique), France (La Francaise des Jeux), Ireland (Irish Lotto), Luxembourg (Loterie Nationale Luxembourg), Portugal (Portuguese Lottery - Campiao), Switzerland, and UK (The UK National Lottery).

Jackpots are growing larger with every new country that joins the European Union, and this will lead to more people playing the EuroMillions lottery, which gives us more reasons to play because we can win more Euros. Matter of fact, because many countries participate, and because the jackpot rolls over if no one wins, the jackpot often hits 50 million Euros. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that?

EuroMillions Jackpots

As stated, EuroMillions lottery jackpots roll over each time there is not a winner causing the jackpots to grow, which means many Euros are given to the winners when this happens. For instance, on February 3 in 2006 the jackpot rolled over eleven times, growing the European lottery prize to £125,194,303, shared by three Euro lottery tickets. Two of them were bought in France and one in Portugal.

But that wasn’t the largest win. The largest win occurred on May 8 in 2009 when one happy person in Spain must have looked down at his winning ticket with bulging eyes and a million-Euro smile. No, make that a 126-million-Euro smile. Just imagine what that must have felt like, knowing you would never have to work a day in your life again. Wow!

Who can play?

Typically, you must be European living in one of the nine participating countries in order to buy a EuroMillions lottery ticket, but the internet makes it possible to buy a lottery ticket online in the privacy of your own home. You don’t even have to stop watching the TV. It doesn’t get much easier than that. Just visit the EuroMillions website. And that’s not the only way for you to buy lottery tickets if you’re not living in one of the participating countries. You can also join a syndicate, increasing your chances to win, at many international lottery syndicates. It might be the best way to play EuroMillions lottery, so even if you do live in one of the participating countries, you might want to join a syndicate.

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