The chances of scooping the Euromillions jackpot is a distant one : 76 million but the odds of acquiring a money prize is a fairly decent one : twenty-four. If the jackpot is not won in a given lotto draw, it is carried forward to the following lottery draw which results in an ever increasing jack-pot value. Recent regulations brought in on the 09/02/07 limit the amount of consecutive roll overs to 11, with the jackpot rolled out to smaller value levels in the 11th draw if the prize is not collected.
The euro millions lottery or the Euro Lottery, as it’s normally best-known, gathers the lotto ticket revenues of the nine partaking European countries delivering a immense Euro Lotto jackpot. With the quantity of nations joining the Euro on the increase, that will without question will lead to even more countries partaking in the European lotto. A growth in the amount of individuals partaking in the Euromillions Lottery will result in a continued increase of the already gigantic European Lottery jackpots.
The new regulations also initiated Euro Millions Super-Draw which happen twice annually plus they offer jackpots in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super Draws is that the jackpot must be collected during the week of the lotto draw; as a result, if there is no ticket corresponding, all the drawn numbers then the top prize will be distributed to the ticket holder(s) on the succeeding winning prize tier.
Each player has to choose 5 primary numbers from one to fifty plus 2 Lucky Star numbers from one to nine. During the draw, five main and two lucky-star numbers are then selected at random from 2 lotto draw machines containing numbered lotto balls.
