Eurojackpot

Eurojackpot
FormationMarch 2012; 12 years ago (2012-03)
Location
The Eurojackpot

Eurojackpot is a transnational European lottery launched in March 2012. As of March 2024, the countries participating in the lottery are: Croatia,[1][2] Czechia,[2] Denmark,[2][3] Estonia,[2] Finland,[2][3][4] Germany,[2][3] Hungary,[2] Iceland,[2][5] Italy,[2][3] Latvia,[2][6] Lithuania,[2][7] Netherlands,[2][3] Norway,[2][3] Poland,[2] Slovakia, Slovenia,[2] Spain[2] Sweden[2] and Greece.

The jackpot starts at €10,000,000 and can roll over up to €120,000,000.[2][3][4][8] Playing the Eurojackpot costs €2 per line (except in Lithuania which includes additional game called 'Joker' that increases the price to €3 per line; buying a base ticket without Joker is not an option, in Greece where its costs €2,50 per line and in Slovenia where it costs €2,20 per line).

The goal is to match 5 correct numbers out of 50 plus another 2 supplementary numbers out of another 12;[9] the odds of winning the jackpot are 1:140,000,000.[2][3] There are 12 tiers of prizes for Eurojackpot.[2][10]

The lottery draw takes place every Tuesday at 21:15 and Friday at 21:00 local time in Helsinki.[2][11] The evaluation of the winning lottery tickets is done in Germany and Denmark.

  1. ^ "EUROJACKPOT - the new lotterie with a minimum jackpot of 10 million Euro". eurojackpot.com.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Eurojackpot Spielregeln" [Eurojackpot game mechanics] (in German). Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Vil du vinde 675 millioner kroner?" [Do you want to win 675 million kroner?]. Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). April 5, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Eurojackpot deal agreed in Helsinki". Yle. June 8, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2015. The Finnish lottery operator Veikkaus is to join with fellow gambling companies in seven other European countries to run a lottery scheme offering jackpots of up to 90 million euros. The so-called Eurojackpot draw will start next spring.
  5. ^ "Milljarðavinningar í EuroJackpot" [Billion winnings in Eurojackpot]. RÚV (in Icelandic). Reykjavík. January 25, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  6. ^ "Kādam laimīgam latvietim ir iespēja balvā saņemt 10 miljonus eiro". Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  7. ^ "Olifėja Eurojackpot" (in Lithuanian). Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  8. ^ "Suomalainen lottokansa pääsee tavoittelemaan megaluokan lottopotteja, Veikkaus tiedotti keskiviikkona". Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
  9. ^ Note: Free true random number generators, online, can aid in getting ticket numbers.
  10. ^ "The 12 tiers of prizes and odds for Eurojackpot". Multilotto. August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  11. ^ "Eurojackpot speluitleg". eurojackpot.nl. Archived from the original on September 6, 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2013.