Playing the euromillion lottery couldn’t be easier, it is what is known as a 5/50 plus 2 lottery and players can buy euro millions tickets either online or from participating euromillions retail at outlets across the participating euromillion countries.
To buy euro millions tickets from a shop or retail outlet, euromillions lottery players can use a single play slip or choose a euromillionLucky Dip entry. The differences between these options are listed below;
Single Play euro millions play slips contain six sets of main boards and lucky star boards. The euromillions player selects five numbers on a main board between 1-50 and two numbers on the associated lucky star board between 1 and 9. This combination entitles player to a single euromillion lottery ticket. On a single play slip a lotto player can make up to six euro millions entries, and these can be repeated for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 consecutive euromillions draws by marking the relevant option and paying all euromillion ticket fees in advance. There is no limit to how many play slips/tickets can be purchased by a single euro millions player
euromillions Lucky Dips do not require the completion of any play slip. Simply asking at any participating euromillion retailer players can purchase lucky dips with euro millions numbers randomly chosen by the terminal. euromillion players can also opt to play multiple euro millions lotto draws on a lucky dip although this limits the euromillions player to the same numbers throughout the period that the euromillion lottery tickets remain valid.
The base jackpot value for the euro millions lottery is €15 million (around £11 million or $21 million), this amount climbs steeply each week if the lotto jackpot is not won and the euromillions draw rolls over. Rollovers are common in the euromillion lottery draw which makes for exciting draws and some of the highest lotto jackpot on offer in the world.
Odds for euro millions lottery and approx. prize values
The euromillion draws are held every Friday night at 21:35 CET (20:35 GMT) in Paris. A standard euromillions lottery ticket costs €2.00, £2.00 or CHF3.20 per line played, or €3.00 if a eurolottery player plays with the "Plus" option (available in the Republic of Ireland and Portugal). The cost in the UK increased from £1.50 to £2.00 per line on 7 November 2009 as a result of the EUR/GBP exchange rate remaining closer to 1.0000 than to 0.7500, and the additional cost of euro millions uk tickets now funds the euro millions uk millionaire raffle game where every week one euro millions uk player is guaranteed to win £1 million. This is the standard price in all the countries mentioned above. Prizes, aside from the lotto jackpot, are sized according to participation per country.
All euromillion prizes, including the jackpot, are tax-free (except in Switzerland) and are paid in a single lump sum.
Millions of people have played the euromillions Lottery since its introduction in February 2004 with total sales running into many billions of Euros to date and weekly euro millions ticket sales approaching 100 million Euros. There is a greater attraction to many lottery players of the bigger euromillion jackpot prize funds than with either the UK national lotto or other European lotteries. For many, the added incentive to playing the euromillions is the increasing frequency and excitement of the huge rollover jackpots.
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