Eurojackpot is often a transnational European lottery launched in March 2012. By October 13, 2015, the countries doing the lottery are: Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland,Italy, Latvia,Lithuania, holland, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
The jackpot starts at €10,000,000 and will flip approximately €90,000,000.
Desire to would be to match 5 correct numbers from 50 plus another 2 supplementary numbers from another 10; chances of winning the jackpot are 1:95,344,200.You will find 12 tiers of prizes for Eurojackpot.
The lottery draw occurs every Friday at 21:00 local amount of time in Helsinki. The look at the winning lottery tickets is performed in Germany and Denmark.
Jackpot behaviour
Compared to other lotteries just like the EuroMillions and also the German Lotto 6 aus 49, the Eurojackpot is designed to pay out much more frequently (1:95 million odds versus over 1:139 million for your EuroMillions and also the German Lotto). Consequently, it’s not at all anticipated that this lottery will grow to the same record-breaking sizes achieved by the EuroMillions, because it will likely be won instead.
As much as January 31, 2013 the Euromillions lottery had a ‘rolldown’ clause: when the jackpot isn’t won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw is going to be at the mercy of a rolldown whereby if no winner will be able to match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot will be paid over to the subsequent winning tier when a winner can be obtained. It was 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 one of many Euronumbers (from two), walked away with the jackpot from the second prize tier.
The very first time the record for your largest jackpot for your EuroJackpot was intent on May 15, 2015 when a person from Czech Republic won the 90,000,000.00 Euro jackpot.
History
The Eurojackpot lottery was proposed in 2006,[10] to tackle the EuroMillions lottery. Thanks to a lot of participating countries, the EuroMillions will be able to offer considerably larger jackpots than those offered in a national lottery. Having looked at the achievements of EuroMillions, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy and also the Netherlands met in Amsterdam in November 2011 to complete the negotiations for your Eurojackpot lottery and to begin the reveal next year. Following your negotiations, Estonia also chose to have fun with the lottery. The initial ticket sales began on March 17, 2012 as the original draw occurred 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. On February 1, 2013 Croatia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden arrived. The Czech Republic and Hungary joined the Eurojackpot from October 10, 2014 and Slovakia from October 9, 2015. In comparison, the Eurojackpot carries a wider reach of potential players with an audience in local countries of 270 million, when compared to the Euromillions of 217 million.
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