Eurojackpot lottery («Eurojackpot»)
Member countries: Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden and Estonia.
Online ticket sales: NOT carried out, but a legal form of playing this lottery is possible.
How to buy tickets: be a citizen of one of the countries participating in the lottery, or be on the territory of these countries legally. An alternative way of playing is possible.
Age of participants: in Estonia – from 16 years, in the rest of the participating countries – from 18 years.
Minimum jackpot: 10 000 000 euros.
Current jackpot (clickable banner):
Maximum jackpot: 90 000 000 euros.
Max Jackpot Drawn: 90 000 000 euros.
Probability of winning the jackpot: 1 to 95 344 200.
Probability of winning any prize: 1 to 26.
Winnings tax: paid by the winner according to the laws of that country, where the ticket was purchased.
Drawing: held once a week, on Fridays.
Eurojackpot lottery rules («Eurojackpot»):
two reels fall out 5 and 2 ball respectively. The first reel contains balls, numbered from 1 to 50 inclusive, in the second – from 1 to 10. Balls from the second reel are called "Eurostars". To win the main prize – jackpot – need to guess 5 balls and 2 "Eurostars".
Winnings distribution table Eurojackpot as a percentage of the prize pool (the probability of winning is shown in brackets):
- 7,8% – guessed 1 ball and 2 "Eurostars" (1 to 128);
- 19,1% – guessed 2 ball and 1 "Eurostar" (1 to 42);
- 3,1% – guessed 2 ball and 2 "Eurostars" (1 to 672);
- 4,3% – guessed 3 event (1 to 344);
- 3% – guessed 3 ball and 1 "Eurostar" (1 to 602);
- 0,6% – guessed 3 ball and 2 "Eurostars" (1 to 9 631);
- 0,7% – guessed 4 event (1 to 15 134);
- 0,9% – guessed 4 ball and 1 "Eurostar" (1 to 26 485);
- 1% – guessed 4 ball and 2 "Eurostars" (1 to 423 752);
- 3% – guessed 5 balls (1 to 3 405 150);
- 8,5% – guessed 5 balls and 1 "Eurostar" (1 to 5 959 013);
- 36% – jackpot, guessed 5 balls and 2 "Eurostars" (1 to 95 344 200).
History reference: the Eurojackpot lottery was created largely thanks to and partly in opposition to the EuroMillions lottery. An example of the latter clearly showed, that players from several countries allow more tickets to be sold and guarantee a much larger grand prize, rather than local lotteries of a particular country. Therefore, after a cycle of meetings and agreements, potential participating countries, which took several years, in March 2012 of the year passed the first lottery draw. At this point, the drawing took place only in 7 countries: Germany, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Finland and Estonia. And literally two weeks later, Italy joined the drawing.
Initially, the lottery used, as it is today, 50 main balls, of which dropped out during the draw 5, but the "euro stars" was 8. And for the jackpot the rule was: he could grow no more 12 draws in a row. If none of the players succeeded in guessing the jackpot, then it was distributed among those, who guessed 5 balls and 1 "Eurostar".
In February 2013 of the year Iceland joins the Eurojackpot lottery, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Croatia. And then the limit on the number of jackpot transitions from one draw to another was removed., instead, a limit was introduced on the amount of the jackpot in the amount of 90 million euros. In this case, the jackpot remains at the top mark as desired number of draws exactly as long as, until it is played. All additional funds, collected from ticket sales, are no longer directed to the formation of the jackpot, and to increase the prize pool of the next level, when guessed 5 balls and 1 "Eurostar". The winning fund of this level will grow until (of course, on condition, that the jackpot will not be drawn), until the amount is 90 million euros. In this case, additional funds will be directed to the formation of a fund for those, who will only guess 5 balls. The filling ceiling of this fund – The same 90 million. In this case, the fund for those, who will guess 4 ball and 2 "Eurostars". Etc.
