Stop Counting Your Chickens! The Probability of Succeeding on the Euro Millions and Does Anyone Stand a Real Chance of Succeeding

Posted on Thursday 30 April 2009

The prospects of scooping up the Euromillions jackpot is a remote one in 76 million but the odds of winning a money prize is a somewhat decent 1 in 24. If the jack-pot is not won in a given lottery draw, it is carried forward to the next lottery draw that will result in an ever increasing jackpot prize. Recent rules added on the 09 February 2007 set the amount of consecutive roll overs to 11, with the jackpot rolling out to lower prize levels succeeding the eleventh lottery draw when the prize is not collected.

The Euro Millions lottery or the Euro Lottery, as it is ordinarily known, gathers the ticket receipts of the 9 partaking Euro countries delivering a giant Euromillions jackpot. With the amount of nations joining the EU on the increase, that will without a doubt lead to new countries partaking in the European lotto. An increase in the number of individuals partaking in the European Lottery will lead to a continued growth of the already enormous EuroMillions jackpots.

The new regulations also initiated Euro Lotto Super Draw which happen twice annually and offer jackpots in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super-Draws is that the jackpot has to be won during the calendar week of the lotto draw; this means, when there is no lotto ticket corresponding, all the drawn numbers then the top prize will then be allotted to the lotto ticket bearer(s) on the next winning prize tier.

Every player has to pick out five primary numbers from 1 to 50 and two Lucky-star numbers from one to nine. During the draw, five main plus 2 lucky star numbers are then picked out at random from 2 lottery draw machines containing numbered lotto balls.

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