Eurojackpot is a transnational European lottery launched in March 2012. Since October 13, 2015, the countries playing 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 may carry over around €90,000,000.
The aim is usually to match 5 correct numbers beyond 50 another 2 supplementary numbers beyond another 10; the percentages 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 period in Helsinki. The evaluation of the winning lottery tickets is completed in Germany and Denmark.
Jackpot behaviour
In comparison with other lotteries such as the EuroMillions and the German Lotto 6 aus 49, the Eurojackpot is designed to fork out have an orgasm (1:95 million odds versus over 1:139 million for your EuroMillions and the German Lotto). Therefore, it’s not at all anticipated that the lottery will grow on the same record-breaking sizes achieved with the EuroMillions, as it probably will be won instead.
Up to January 31, 2013 the Euromillions lottery were built with a ‘rolldown’ clause: when the jackpot isn’t won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw is going to be susceptible to a rolldown whereby if no winner has the capacity to match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot is paid over to the subsequent winning tier the place where a winner is available. It had been this clause that set the last 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 the Euronumbers (beyond two), walked away with the jackpot within the second prize tier.
The very first time 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 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 these offered in a national lottery. Having looked at the prosperity of EuroMillions, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy and the Netherlands met in Amsterdam in November 2011 to finish the negotiations for your Eurojackpot lottery and begin the reveal in 2012. After the negotiations, Estonia also made a decision to participate in the lottery. The initial ticket sales began on March 17, 2012 whilst the first draw took place on March 23, 2012.
Spain joined the Eurojackpot from 30 June 2012 with 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. In contrast, the Eurojackpot includes a wider reach of potential players by having an audience in local countries of 270 million, when compared to Euromillions of 217 million.
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