The probabilities of scooping up the Euromillions jack-pot is a remote one : seventy six million but the odds of acquiring a cash prize is a fairly decent 1 in 24. If the jackpot is not won on a given week, it is brought forward to the next lotto draw which results in an ever increasing jack-pot value. New rules brought in on the 9/02/07 limit the amount of consecutive roll overs to eleven, with the jack-pot rolled out to smaller prize levels succeeding the eleventh lottery draw if the prize is not collected.
The Euro millions lotto or the Euro lotto, as it is ordinarily best-known, pools the ticket revenues of the nine partaking Euro countries delivering a giant Euro lottery jackpot. With the amount of nations joining the Euro on the increase, this will without a doubt lead to new countries participating in the Euro Millions lotto. An increase in the number of people partaking in the Euro millions lotto will result in a continued growth of the already huge EuroMillions jackpots.
The new regulations likewise initiated Euro Lotto Super Draw which happen twice annually and offer jack-pots in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super-Draws is that the jackpot has to be collected during the week of the lottery draw; as a result, when there is no ticket matching, all the numbers drawn and top prize will then be distributed to the lottery ticket holder(s) on the succeeding winning prize level.
Every participant must pick out five primary numbers from 1 to 50 and 2 Lucky-star numbers from one to nine. During the euromillions draw five primary plus two lucky-star numbers are then chosen at random from 2 lotto draw machines containing numbered balls.