Let’s Talk Odds! The Odds of Winning the Euro Lottery and Does Anyone Stand a Real Chance of Winning
Sunday, April 26th, 2009The prospects of scooping the Euromillions jack-pot is a far-off 1 : seventy-six million but the chances of acquiring a money prize is a fairly decent one : 24. When the jack-pot is not won in a given lottery draw, it is carried over to the next lotto draw which results in an ever increasing jack-pot prize. New regulations brought in on the 2007-02-07 restrict the amount of consecutive roll overs to 11, with the jack-pot rolling down to lower value levels succeeding the eleventh lottery draw if the prize is not collected.
The Euro millions lottery or the Euro Lottery, as it’s commonly known, gathers the lotto ticket receipts of the 9 partaking Euro countries showing a sizeable Euro lottery jackpot. With the amount of countries joining the EU on the increase, that will without question will lead to more countries participating in the Euro Millions lottery. A growth in the number of people partaking in the euromillions will result in a continued increase of the already gigantic European Lottery jackpots.
The recent rules likewise initiated Euro Lottery Super Draw which happen twice annually plus they offer jack-pots in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super Draws is that the jackpot must be won during the calendar week of the draw; as a result, if there is no lotto ticket matching, all the numbers drawn and the top prize will then be distributed to the ticket bearer(s) in the next winning prize tier.
Each player has to choose five primary numbers from one to fifty and 2 Lucky-star numbers from one to nine. During the lottery draw, five main and 2 lucky-star numbers are then selected at random from 2 lotto draw machines containing numbered balls.
