Eurojackpot is really a transnational European lottery launched in March 2012. Since October 13, 2015, the countries taking part in the lottery are: Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland,Italy, Latvia,Lithuania, the low countries, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
The jackpot starts at €10,000,000 and can flip around €90,000,000.
Desire to is always to match 5 correct numbers away from 50 plus another 2 supplementary numbers away from another 10; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1:95,344,200.You can find 12 tiers of prizes for Eurojackpot.
The lottery draw occurs every Friday at 21:00 local period in Helsinki. The evaluation of the winning lottery tickets is conducted in Germany and Denmark.
Jackpot behaviour
In comparison to other lotteries such as the EuroMillions and also the German Lotto 6 aus 49, the Eurojackpot is designed to pay out have an orgasm (1:95 million odds versus over 1:139 million to the EuroMillions and also the German Lotto). Because of this, it isn’t anticipated that this lottery will grow towards the same record-breaking sizes achieved with the EuroMillions, mainly because it will most likely be won instead.
Up to January 31, 2013 the Euromillions lottery had a ‘rolldown’ clause: should the jackpot is just not won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw will be susceptible to a rolldown whereby if no winner can match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot is paid to the following winning tier when a winner can be acquired. It turned out this clause that set the last jackpot record of 27,545,857.50 Euros in August 2012, as being a German player who correctly matched the five main numbers, but only one of the Euronumbers (away from two), walked away with all the jackpot from the second prize tier.
The very first time the record to the largest jackpot to the EuroJackpot was set on May 15, 2015 when a person from Czech Republic won the 90,000,000.00 Euro jackpot.
History
The Eurojackpot lottery was proposed in the year 2006,[10] to contend with the EuroMillions lottery. By virtue of a lot of participating countries, the EuroMillions can offer considerably larger jackpots compared to those offered in a single national lottery. Having seen the success of EuroMillions, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy and also the Netherlands met in Amsterdam in November 2011 to perform the negotiations to the Eurojackpot lottery and also to begin the reveal next year. After the negotiations, Estonia also chose to have fun with the lottery. The initial ticket sales began on March 17, 2012 even though the first ever draw occurred on March 23, 2012.
Spain joined the Eurojackpot from 30 June 2012 with all the ticket concession granted to ONCE, the National Organization of Spanish blind people. Last 1, 2013 Croatia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden emerged. The Czech Republic and Hungary joined the Eurojackpot from October 10, 2014 and Slovakia from October 9, 2015. In comparison, the Eurojackpot carries a wider reach of potential players with the audience in local countries of 270 million, in comparison to the Euromillions of 217 million.
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