Play the EuroMillions Lottery

Here is your chance to enter EuroMillions - the newest, BIGGEST Lottery in Europe today - with weekly Jackpots from €15 million up to €70 million (Euros)!

EuroMillions (Euro Millions, Euro Millones) is the world's first international multi-country lottery game.

Camelot launched the EuroMillions lottery on Saturday February 7, 2004. With it’s first draw on 13th Feb, 2004, EuroMillions is among the newest to join the ranks of world-class lotteries. The first jackpot was worth €15 million (Euros).

The UK, France and Spain started the ball rolling and was originally presented by three major lottery organizers: Camelot in the United Kingdom, the Francaise des Jeux in France and the Loterias y Apuestas des Estad in Spain. On October 8, 2004 lotteries from Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland joined the draw.

It's played every Friday and shown on TV channels TF1 in France and TVE in Spain.

Tickets cost €2 per play and in the UK, the equivalent in Sterling (GBP), rounded to the nearest 10p (£1.50 as of June 2005). Apart from the jackpot, prizes are sized according to participation per country.

The odds of winning the Euromillions is a staggering 76,275,360:1. Don’t let that put you off - on July 29, 2005, after rolling over 9 times, the EuroMillions prize of £79,881,799 (€112 million Euros - Europe's largest ever lottery prize) was won on a ticket purchased in Limerick, Ireland. The winner was mother of six, Dolores McNamara, who claimed the prize on August 4 in Dublin.
Europe's previous biggest lottery draw prize was £72m (€105 million euros) won on the Italian Superenalotto in May.

Whereas national lotteries are generally limited to the residents of one particular country, all of the stake money is pooled by the participating European countries for the EuroMillions lottery. 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.

With this vast European lottery-playing population it has the potential to become the biggest lump-sum, tax-free lottery the world has ever seen, with jackpots predicted to exceed £100 million GBP.

EuroMillions is a Powerball-type lotto game where numbers are chosen from two different number fields. Five numbers are chosen from 1 to 50; and two numbers are chosen from 1 to 9. There are twelve prize categories. In order to beat the odds of 76,275, 360:1 and win the EuroMillions (EuroMillones) jackpot, players must have all seven winning numbers correct.
The five balls that are chosen from 50 are claret (red) colored. The nine ‘Lucky Star' balls from which two are chosen are golden colored balls.

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 EuroMillions one of the biggest lotteries on the planet
and certainly one of the most exciting!

The original plan had been to launch this new European Lottery at around the same time as a single European currency, but as so 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.

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