Eurojackpot is a transnational European lottery launched in March 2012. Since October 13, 2015, the countries doing 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 can carry over up to €90,000,000.
The aim is usually to match 5 correct numbers from 50 another 2 supplementary numbers from another 10; the 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 in time Helsinki. The look at the winning lottery tickets is done in Germany and Denmark.
Jackpot behaviour
In comparison with other lotteries such as the EuroMillions and also the German Lotto 6 aus 49, the Eurojackpot is designed to spend have an orgasm (1:95 million odds versus over 1:139 million for that EuroMillions and also the German Lotto). Because of this, it’s not anticipated how the lottery will grow on the same record-breaking sizes achieved through the EuroMillions, since it will most likely be won instead.
Up to January 31, 2013 the Viking Lotto lottery a ‘rolldown’ clause: should the jackpot isn’t won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw will likely be at the mercy of a rolldown whereby if no winner is able to match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot is paid in the market to the next winning tier where a winner can be acquired. It was this clause that set the previous jackpot record of 27,545,857.50 Euros in August 2012, like a German player who correctly matched the five main numbers, but only among the Euronumbers (from two), walked away with all the jackpot from the second prize tier.
Initially the record for that largest jackpot for that EuroJackpot was intent on May 15, 2015 where a person from Czech Republic won the 90,000,000.00 Euro jackpot.
History
The Eurojackpot lottery was proposed in 2006,[10] to compete with the EuroMillions lottery. By virtue of numerous participating countries, the EuroMillions is able to offer considerably larger jackpots compared to those offered within a national lottery. After seeing the success of EuroMillions, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy and also the Netherlands met in Amsterdam in November 2011 to complete the negotiations for that Eurojackpot lottery and to begin the unveil next year. Following the negotiations, Estonia also thought we would participate in the lottery. The initial ticket sales began on March 17, 2012 while the first draw took place on March 23, 2012.
Spain joined the Eurojackpot from 30 June 2012 with all the ticket concession granted to ONCE, the National 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. When compared, the Eurojackpot features a wider reach of potential players having an audience in local countries of 270 million, compared to the Euromillions of 217 million.
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