Eurojackpot can be 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, the low countries, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

The jackpot starts at €10,000,000 and can roll over as much as €90,000,000.

The aim would be to match 5 correct numbers away from 50 plus another 2 supplementary numbers away from another 10; the percentages of winning the jackpot are 1:95,344,200.You will find 12 tiers of prizes for Eurojackpot.

The lottery draw comes about every Friday at 21:00 local amount of time in Helsinki. The evaluation of the winning lottery tickets is conducted in Germany and Denmark.

Jackpot behaviour

When compared with other lotteries like the EuroMillions along with the German Lotto 6 aus 49, the Eurojackpot was designed to fork out have sex (1:95 million odds versus over 1:139 million for that EuroMillions along with the German Lotto). Consequently, it isn’t anticipated that this lottery will grow to 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 lottery results lottery a ‘rolldown’ clause: in case the jackpot is not won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw will probably be susceptible to a rolldown whereby if no winner is able to match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot is paid to the next winning tier when a winner is available. It had been this clause that set the prior jackpot record of 27,545,857.50 Euros in August 2012, as a German player who correctly matched the 5 main numbers, only one of the Euronumbers (away from two), walked away with the jackpot within the second prize tier.

The first time the record for that largest jackpot for that 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 the year 2006,[10] to take on the EuroMillions lottery. Due to numerous participating countries, the EuroMillions is able to offer considerably larger jackpots compared to those offered within a national lottery. After seeing the achievements EuroMillions, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy along with the Netherlands met in Amsterdam in November 2011 to accomplish the negotiations for that Eurojackpot lottery and begin the roll out next year. Following the negotiations, Estonia also thought we would participate in the lottery. The 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 country’s Organization of Spanish blind people. Last month 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. Compared, the Eurojackpot includes a wider reach of potential players with an audience in local countries of 270 million, when compared to Euromillions of 217 million.
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