Eurojackpot is a transnational European lottery launched in March 2012. At the time of October 13, 2015, the countries participating in the lottery are: Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland,Italy, Latvia,Lithuania, netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
The jackpot starts at €10,000,000 and will flip approximately €90,000,000.
Desire to is always to match 5 correct numbers out of 50 plus another 2 supplementary numbers out of another 10; the chances of winning the jackpot are 1:95,344,200.There are 12 tiers of prizes for Eurojackpot.
The lottery draw occurs every Friday at 21:00 local time in Helsinki. The evaluation of the winning lottery tickets is performed in Germany and Denmark.
Jackpot behaviour
In comparison to other lotteries just like the EuroMillions and also the German Lotto 6 aus 49, the Eurojackpot is made to spend have an orgasm (1:95 million odds versus over 1:139 million to the EuroMillions and also the German Lotto). As a result, it’s not anticipated how the lottery will grow on the same record-breaking sizes achieved with the EuroMillions, as it will likely be won instead.
Around January 31, 2013 the Viking Lotto lottery had a ‘rolldown’ clause: when the jackpot is not won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw will be susceptible to a rolldown whereby if no winner has the capacity to match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot pays over to the next winning tier where a winner is available. It was this clause that set the prior jackpot record of 27,545,857.50 Euros in August 2012, being a German player who correctly matched the 5 main numbers, only one of several Euronumbers (out of two), walked away using the jackpot in the second prize tier.
The very first time the record to the largest jackpot to the EuroJackpot was intent on May 15, 2015 where 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. Due to a lot of participating countries, the EuroMillions has the capacity to offer considerably larger jackpots compared to those offered in a national lottery. After seeing the achievements of EuroMillions, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy and also the Netherlands met in Amsterdam in November 2011 to accomplish the negotiations to the Eurojackpot lottery and begin the roll out in 2012. After the negotiations, Estonia also made a decision to have fun playing the lottery. The very first ticket sales began on March 17, 2012 even though the first draw happened on March 23, 2012.
Spain joined the Eurojackpot from 30 June 2012 using the ticket concession granted to ONCE, the country’s Organization of Spanish blind people. Last month 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. Compared, the Eurojackpot carries a wider reach of potential players with the audience in local countries of 270 million, compared to the Euromillions of 217 million.
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