EuroMillions lottery rules
Residents of other countries have the opportunity to participate in the lottery through an official licensed operator and an online ticket. For all participants, regardless of their citizenship, a single set of rules is distributed. Its main postulates:
- the player must be older 18 years (not all sellers require documents, confirming age, but if a minor wins, there may be problems with the issue of the prize);
- must choose 2 any numbers in the range 1 to 50 (for the first playing field);
- you also need to additionally choose 2 stellar numbers ranging from 1 to 12 (for the second playing field);
- only tickets participate in the drawing, purchased before the start of the drawing, more precisely for 15 minutes before its start;
- the draw takes place twice a week - on Tuesday and Friday - at 20:45 Paris time.
Maximum Possible Win: 190.000.000 Euro or so 170 million pounds (UK residents receive their winnings in the latest currency, all others in Euro). You shouldn't rush to get money, the validity of winning tickets is long enough:
- 180 days for paper tickets, bought in England;
- 60 days for paper tickets, bought in France;
- 2-4 months for paper tickets, purchased in other participating countries.
Online tickets are usually settled automatically and without the player's personal involvement.. Within a very short time after notification of the win, the operator credits the due money to the account, from which the ticket was purchased, or to another account specified by the winner.
How to play and win - recommendations
Get information about international draws, can be on the Internet on the pages with the titles "How to play". It is worth remembering, that lottery fraud is rampant, this fate was not spared and the international drawing. Fraud often manifests itself in convincing people, that they won a prize at random by mobile phone. The essence and strategy of deception consists in the transaction of funds for the payment of the tax "fictitious prize".
Fraud - how to spot the catch:
- It is impossible to win a prize without purchasing a lottery ticket.
- To win, the numbers on the ticket must match the balls of the draw.
- EuroMillions does not randomly draw phone numbers or email addresses.
- In case of winning, representatives of the international lottery do not directly contact the participant of the game.
- Taxation is cheating, such requirements simply do not exist.
The above points indicate that, that you should not trust calls or SMS sent about a possible win.
