April
2009
Where’s my Fairy Godmother? The Odds of Winning the Euro Lotto and Does Anybody Stand a Real Chance of Winning the Jack-pot
The probabilities of scooping up the Euro millions jackpot is a far-off 1 : seventy-six million but the chances of acquiring a cash prize is a somewhat decent 1 : twenty four. If the jack-pot is not won in a given lottery draw, it is carried forward to the following lottery draw which results in an ever increasing jackpot prize. Recent rules added on the 9/02/2007 limit the amount of successive roll-overs to 11, with the jackpot rolled down 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 commonly known, pools the ticket receipts of the 9 partaking European countries delivering a giant Euro Lottery jack-pot. With the quantity of nations joining the EU on the increase, that will without a doubt lead to more countries partaking in the European lottery. A growth in the amount of individuals partaking in the euro lottery international draw will lead to a continuing growth of the already large EuroMillions jackpots.
The new regulations likewise initiated Euro Lottery Super Draw which come about twice annually and offer jackpots in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super Draws is that the jack-pot has to be collected during the week of the draw; this means, when there is no lottery ticket matching, all the drawn numbers then the top prize will then be allotted to the lottery ticket holder(s) on the next winning prize level.
Each and every participant must pick out five main numbers from 1 to 50 and two Lucky Star numbers from 1 to 9. During the lottery draw, 5 main plus two lucky-star numbers are then picked out at random from two lotto draw machines containing numbered lottery balls.
