The chances of scooping the Euromillions jackpot is a remote 1 : seventy six million but the possibility of acquiring a cash prize is a fairly decent 1 in 24. If the jackpot is not won on a given week, it is brought forward to the next lottery draw which results in an ever increasing jackpot value. New rules brought in on the 2007-02-07 specify the amount of successive rollovers to 11, with the jackpot rolling down to lower value levels succeeding the eleventh lottery draw if the prize is not collected.

The Euro millions lotto or the Euro lotto, as it is normally well-known, gathers the lotto ticket revenues of the 9 partaking European countries delivering a whopping Euromillions jackpot. With the number of nations joining the EU on the increase, that will without question will lead to even more states participating in the Euro lotto. An increase in the number of people partaking in the Euro Millions will lead to a prolonged growth of the already gigantic Euro Lotto jackpots.

The recent regulations likewise initiated European Super-Draw which come about twice annually plus they offer jack-pots in the region of 100 million pounds. The difference with Super Draws is that the jack-pot has to be collected during the calendar week of the lotto draw; as a result, if there is no lottery ticket matching, all the numbers drawn and top prize will then be allotted to the lotto ticket bearer(s) on the succeeding winning prize tier.

Each player must select 5 main numbers from 1 to 50 plus two Lucky-star numbers from 1 to 9. During the draw, 5 primary plus 2 lucky star numbers are then selected at random from 2 draw machines containing numbered lotto balls.