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EuroMillions [a] is a transnational lottery that requires seven correct numbers to win the jackpot, which consists of 5 main numbers and 2 Lucky Star Numbers. It was launched on 7 February 2004 by France 's Française des Jeux , Spain 's Loterías y Apuestas del Estado and the United Kingdom 's Camelot group (now part of Allwyn ).
The goal is to match 5 correct numbers out of 50 plus another 2 supplementary numbers out of another 12; [9] the odds of winning the jackpot are 1:140,000,000. [2] [3] There are 12 tiers of prizes for Eurojackpot. [2] [10] The lottery draw takes place every Tuesday at 21:15 and Friday at 21:00 local time in Helsinki.
The Spanish Christmas Lottery is considered to be the world's largest lottery. [85] The 2011 top prize of €720 million [ citation needed ] was paid out as €4 million [ 86 ] (US$5.2 million) to each of the 180 tickets.
Glimmer of hope is restored as winner is yet to claim third biggest National Lottery jackpot of all time ... The winning numbers (and we promise, these really are the correct ones) were 07, 11, 25 ...
The first French lottery was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.
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Lotto initially operated as a 6/36 lottery game, in which the odds of matching all six numbers and winning the jackpot are 1 in 1,947,792. At its initial cost of £0.50 per line, all possible combinations could be purchased for £973,896.
In the European Jackpot lottery, players are required to select 5 main numbers from 1 to 50 and 2 additional ‘Euro’ numbers from a separate pool of 1 to 12. This mechanism was implemented in March 2022. Prior to this, the 2 Euro numbers were selected from a pool of 1 to 10.