The European lotto was in the first place set up by the national lotteries of France, Spain and the United Kingdom and was revealed in February-04. The first lotto draw was on February 13th-04 in Paris. The UK, France and Spain were the only nations partaking in the beginning but lotteries from Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland also became engaged in October-04.

The Euromillions lotto or the Euro lotto, as it’s normally recognized, pools the lotto ticket receipts of the nine partaking European countries giving a massive Euromillions jack-pot. With the number of countries joining the Euro on the increase, this will without question will lead to new states partaking in the European lotto. An increase in the amount of individuals partaking in the European Lotto will result in a lasting increase of the already giant Euro Millions jackpots.

Q. How Would You Play The European Lotto?

Each participant must pick out 5 main numbers from 1 to 50 plus 2 Lucky Star numbers from 1 to 9. During the lottery draw, 5 primary plus 2 lucky-star numbers are then selected at random from two lottery draw machines containing numbered lottery balls.

European Lottery Winnings

The probabilities of scooping up the Euro Millions “jackpot” is a distant one : 76 million but the likelihood of winning a money prize is a somewhat decent one in twenty four. If the jack-pot is not won in a given week, it is brought forward to the following week that will result in an ever increasing “jackpot” prize. New regulations added on the 9 February 2007 define the number of successive rollovers to 11, with the “jackpot” rolled down to smaller value levels on the eleventh draw if the prize is not won.

The new rules likewise initiated Euro Lotto “Super Draw” which come about twice annually and offer jack-pots in the region of £100 million. The difference with Super Draws is that the jack-pot has to be won during the week of the draw; as a result, if there is no lottery ticket matching, all the drawn numbers then the top prize will then be allotted to the ticket holder(s) on the succeeding winning prize tier.