Eurojackpot is really a transnational European lottery launched in March 2012. At the time of October 13, 2015, the countries doing the lottery are: Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland,Italy, Latvia,Lithuania, the low countries, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
The jackpot starts at €10,000,000 and will roll over approximately €90,000,000.
The aim is usually to match 5 correct numbers out of 50 another 2 supplementary numbers out of another 10; the percentages of winning the jackpot are 1:95,344,200.There are 12 tiers of prizes for Eurojackpot.
The lottery draw takes place every Friday at 21:00 local period in Helsinki. The evaluation of the winning lottery tickets is performed in Germany and Denmark.
Jackpot behaviour
In comparison with other lotteries much like the EuroMillions and the German Lotto 6 aus 49, the Eurojackpot is designed to shell out have sex (1:95 million odds versus over 1:139 million for the EuroMillions and the German Lotto). As a result, it’s not anticipated that the lottery will grow on the same record-breaking sizes achieved through the EuroMillions, mainly because it probably will be won instead.
Approximately January 31, 2013 the Eurolotto lottery a ‘rolldown’ clause: when the jackpot is just not won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw will probably be susceptible to a rolldown whereby if no winner can match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot will be paid to the next winning tier where a winner is available. It turned out this clause that set the last jackpot record of 27,545,857.50 Euros in August 2012, like a German player who correctly matched the 5 main numbers, only one of the Euronumbers (out of two), walked away together with the jackpot inside the second prize tier.
Initially the record for the largest jackpot for the EuroJackpot was set on May 15, 2015 where a person from Czech Republic won the 90,000,000.00 Euro jackpot.
History
The Eurojackpot lottery was proposed in 2006,[10] to contend with the EuroMillions lottery. Thanks to a lot of participating countries, the EuroMillions can offer considerably larger jackpots than others offered in one national lottery. Having seen the success of EuroMillions, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy and the Netherlands met in Amsterdam in November 2011 to perform the negotiations for the Eurojackpot lottery and also to begin the roll out in 2012. As soon as the negotiations, Estonia also chose to participate in the lottery. The very first ticket sales began on March 17, 2012 whilst the original draw happened on March 23, 2012.
Spain joined the Eurojackpot from 30 June 2012 together with the ticket concession granted to ONCE, the National Organization of Spanish blind people. Last 1, 2013 Croatia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden came along. The Czech Republic and Hungary joined the Eurojackpot from October 10, 2014 and Slovakia from October 9, 2015. In contrast, the Eurojackpot carries a wider reach of potential players by having an audience in local countries of 270 million, when compared to the Euromillions of 217 million.
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