Eurojackpot is a transnational European lottery launched in March 2012. At the time of October 13, 2015, the countries taking part 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 roll over as much as €90,000,000.
The thing would be to match 5 correct numbers out of 50 another 2 supplementary numbers out of 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 takes place every Friday at 21:00 local time in Helsinki. The evaluation of the winning lottery tickets is done in Germany and Denmark.
Jackpot behaviour
In comparison with other lotteries just like the EuroMillions as well as the German Lotto 6 aus 49, the Eurojackpot is made to fork out have an orgasm (1:95 million odds versus over 1:139 million for your EuroMillions as well as the German Lotto). As a result, it is not anticipated the lottery will grow towards the same record-breaking sizes achieved with the EuroMillions, as it will in all probability be won instead.
As much as January 31, 2013 the Eurolotto lottery a ‘rolldown’ clause: in case the jackpot just isn’t won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw will likely be at the mercy of a rolldown whereby if no winner has the capacity to match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot is paid to the subsequent winning tier the place where a winner is available. It had been this clause that set the previous jackpot record of 27,545,857.50 Euros in August 2012, as a German player who correctly matched the five main numbers, however only among the Euronumbers (out of two), walked away with the jackpot within the second prize tier.
Initially the record for your largest jackpot for your EuroJackpot was intent on May 15, 2015 the place 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 take on the EuroMillions lottery. By virtue of a lot of participating countries, the EuroMillions has the capacity to offer considerably larger jackpots than those offered in a single national lottery. Having looked at the achievements EuroMillions, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy as well as the Netherlands met in Amsterdam in November 2011 to complete the negotiations for your Eurojackpot lottery and also to begin the unveil next year. After the negotiations, Estonia also decided to be in the lottery. The very first ticket sales began on March 17, 2012 while the first ever draw took place on March 23, 2012.
Spain joined the Eurojackpot from 30 June 2012 with the ticket concession granted to ONCE, the nation’s Organization of Spanish blind people. Last 1, 2013 Croatia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden came along. The Czech Republic and Hungary joined the Eurojackpot from October 10, 2014 and Slovakia from October 9, 2015. In comparison, the Eurojackpot includes 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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