Euro Millions is a European lottery that takes place once a week, on Friday evening. Whereas national lotteries are generally limited to the residents of one particular country, the Euro Millions lottery pools the stakes of the participating European countries. This obviously makes the prizes a great deal larger than in national lotteries even in normal circumstances. But because the main prize pool is “rolled over” to the next draw if there is no jackpot winner, prizes can - after a few weeks without a winner - be as high as 50 million Euros.
There are nine countries currently participating in Euro Millions. In alphabetical order, these are Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. This makes Euro Millions one of the biggest lotteries on the planet - and certainly one of the most exciting!
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Next estimated jackpot for
today is:
£31,000,000
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The Last EuroMillions Jackpot was: £21,330,632.
Latest Euro Millions News
Port Augusta Warning
Port Augusta police in South Australia have warned lottery players to be on their guard as a swathe of unsolicited Euromillions lottery scam letters are hitting unsuspecting residents. - (8/5/08)
Lottery Stops Rolling
The EuroMillions jackpot was won by a single ticket-holder on Friday 18 April, bringing to an end a series of rollovers that helped to create a jackpot of €58,367,681. The main winning numbers were 3, 6, 7, 27 and 50, with 5 and 9 drawn as the Lucky Star numbers. The jackpot winner has not yet been named. - (24/4/08)
The History of Euro Millions
The history of Euro Millions began in 1994. Originally, the idea had been to launch this new European Lottery at around the same time as a single European currency, but as often happens, bureaucracy, politics and other miscellaneous factors meant that the plan was delayed a number of times before coming to fruition some ten years later.
The first Euro Millions draw took place on Friday 13th February, 2004. It was originally presented by three major lottery organisers: Camelot in the United Kingdom, the Francaise des Jeux in France and the Loterias y Apuestas des Estad in Spain. The first jackpot was worth 15 million Euros. The highest has been over 183,000,000 euros, which was won by three people. The largest single winner was Delores McNamara who won €115.6 million ($139,000,000 or £77,000,000).