What’s the Acid Test Then? The Prospect of Succeeding on the Euro Millions and Does Anyone Stand a Real Chance of Winning the Jackpot
The probabilities of scooping up the Euromillions jackpot is a remote one in 76 million but the likelihood of acquiring a cash prize is a fairly decent 1 : twenty four. When the jackpot is not won on a given week, it is carried over to the next lottery draw that will result in an ever increasing jackpot prize. New rules added on the 9/02/07 limit the number of consecutive roll-overs to eleven, with the jackpot rolling down to lower value levels on the 11th draw if the prize is not collected.
The Euro millions lottery or the Euro Lottery, as it’s commonly recognized, pools the lotto ticket receipts of the 9 partaking Euro countries showing a tremendous Euro Millions jack-pot. With the number of countries joining the EU on the increase, this will without question will lead to new states participating in the European lotto. An increase in the amount of people partaking in the European Lotto will lead to a continuing increase of the already large EUROMILLIONS jackpots.
The recent rules also initiated European Lottery Super Draw which come about twice each year and offer jackpots in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super Draws is that the jack-pot must be collected during the week of the draw; this means, if there is no lottery ticket matching, all the numbers drawn and top prize will then be allotted to the lottery ticket holder(s) in the succeeding winning prize tier.
Each player has to select five main numbers from 1 to 50 and two Lucky-star numbers from one to nine. During the Euro millions draw five primary and two lucky-star numbers are then picked out at random from 2 lottery draw machines containing numbered lotto balls.
