Information about Euro Millions Lottery



About Euro Millions lottery


EuroMillions is a pan-European lottery, launched by the Francaise des Jeux in France and the Loterias y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and Camelot in the United Kingdom on Saturday February 7, 2004. The first draw took place on Friday February 13, 2004 in Paris. The UK, France and Spain were involved initially, but lotteries from Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland subsequently joined the draw on 8 October 2004.
Draws are held every Friday evening, and take place in Paris. Prizes, aside from the jackpot, are sized according to participation per country.

How to play

In order to play click the banner, then click PLAY button, register or login and play your winning numbers. You will get transaction confirmation to your e-mail as well as the results notification.

Select five main numbers which can be any integer from 1 to 50
Select two lucky star numbers which can be any integer from 1 to 9
During the draw, five main and two lucky star numbers are then drawn at random from two draw machines containing numbered balls. The machines containing fifty balls is called Stresa, and the one containing nine is the Paquerette.

Who can play

Any person 18 or over, may differ in some countries. 16 in the UK.

Notable wins

On 31 August 2007, a French guitarist Vaccaro Joseph (alias Jimmy) won (€39 million, ?29.1 million). He immediately resigned from his job as a statistician at LUXGSM.
On 10 August 2007, Angela Kelly, a 40-year-old former Royal Mail postal administrator from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, won a EuroMillions jackpot of €52.6 million (?35.4 million). This is the largest lottery win ever in the United Kingdom.[4]
On 31 March 2006, after rolling over six times, the EuroMillions jackpot of €75,753,123 (?56,608,222; $100,175,909) was won by one Belgian man, the second biggest win ever in Belgium, and the third-biggest prize won by a single person.
On 9 February 2007, a Belgian man won the EuroMillions jackpot of €100 million ($132 million or ?67.9 million) with a ticket bought in a newspaper shop in Tienen. This is the biggest lottery win in Belgium and the second-biggest individual win in EuroMillions history.
On 31 July 2005, after rolling over nine times, the EuroMillions jackpot of €115 million (?85 million; $152 million) was won on a ticket purchased in Garryowen, Limerick, Ireland. The winner was Dolores McNamara, a 45-year-old mother of six; she remains the biggest individual winner in Euromillions history. She claimed the prize on 4 August 2005 at the Irish National Lottery's headquarters in Dublin.[5]
On 3 February 2006, after rolling over eleven times, the EuroMillions jackpot of €180 million (?134 million; $238 million) was won by three ticket holders, two in France and one in Portugal. The three winners won €60 million ($79 million) each.[6]
By 17 November 2006, after rolling over eleven times, the EuroMillions jackpot reached €183 million ($241 million or ?124 million). No ticket matched all the winning numbers for the twelfth draw, so the jackpot was divided among the twenty tickets that matched five numbers and one lucky star. Each such ticket was worth €9.6 million (?7.1 million, or $12.6 million), i.e., 5% of the jackpot plus the regular match 5 +1 prize. Seven of the twenty tickets were sold in the United Kingdom, four in France, three each in Spain and Portugal, two in Ireland, and one in Belgium.