The Exciting Journey of EuroMillions

uroMillions was launched by , EuroMillions numbers, with the cost of a you play you also receive a free entry into , and UK National Lottery single play set at €2.50. You can also add the El Millón game. You will see a unique on February 7, 2004. Eight other Etoile+ to your ticket for a small extra fee, El Millón raffle code on your ticket, and if Ecountries joined later that year, on October giving you extra ways to win and boosting that is selected as the winning code for the 8, 2004: , , Ireland, Lux- the value of non-jackpot prizes. draw you have entered, you win €1 million. embourg, . Draws Switzerland take place on Tuesday and Friday evenings Premier Lotteries Ireland: You can play offers two supplementary with a minimum guaranteed jackpot of EuroMillions for €2.50 in Ireland, and games alongside EuroMillions. If you opt €17 million, which can roll over up to you will be entered into the Ireland Only to play 2 Chance, your five main numbers the cap of €190 million. SLE (Services Raffle when you buy your ticket. There will be entered into a second draw for the aux Loteries en Europe) administrates the are ten winners of €5,000 in the Ireland chance to win up to CHF 150,000. In operation of EuroMillions at the direction Only Raffle in each game, and from time Super-Star, you will be given a five-digit of the EuroMillions member lotteries. to time special draws take place to offer a code and must match all of them to win guaranteed prize of €1 million. If you opt a jackpot of CHF 250,000. The cost of a An interesting feature of EuroMillions is to play EuroMillions Plus, your five main EuroMillions ticket is CHF3.50. how each jurisdiction can customize the EuroMillions numbers will be entered into The UK National Lottery has had some game to make it special and unique to its extra draws for the chance to win prizes of of the biggest winners in the history of own players. Following are some of the up to €500,000. EuroMillions. The UK Millionaire Maker ways that each Lottery spices up its own is a supplementary game in which you can offer of EuroMillions: National Lottery of operates in the smallest participating nation and win up to £1 million if the unique raffle Österreichische Lotterien (Austria) runs had to wait the longest to celebrate its first code on your ticket matches the winning a game called ÖsterreichBonus, which is jackpot win, when one lucky player landed code selected on the night of every included in the ticket price (€2.50) and €65.7 million in September 2013. Despite EuroMillions draw. You are automatically has the longest claim period (three years) its tiny population, Luxembourg still entered into the Millionaire Maker raffle of any participating country. You can also produced three of the 25 winners in the if you buy a line of EuroMillions numbers play Joker for a small additional fee, where inaugural European Millionaire Maker on in the UK. 28th October 2016. It costs €2.50 per line you will be given six digits from 0 to 9 and Andrew Pilkington, General Secretary of to play EuroMillions in Luxembourg and can win prizes for matching the numbers SLE, joined Camelot in the UK in 2000, you will automatically be entered into the in the same order they are drawn. coming from a background in manu- Extra Lux draw, while you can also pay an facturing and printing. He was on the The Belgian National Lottery runs a additional fee to take part in Joker. game called My Bonus for all its EuroMil- scratch card logistics side of the business, lions players, which is included in the cost Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa: which involved frequently meeting with of a €2.50 ticket. You receive a raffle code Every time you buy a line of EuroMillions Scientific Games in Alpharetta to sign for every line you purchase, and there numbers in Portugal you will receive a off on all the press runs. He had been at are hundreds of winning codes drawn in unique raffle code for the weekly M1lhão Camelot for just over three years when every game. The standard prize is €500 per draw, which is all included in the cost of a the position of operations manager for the winner. €2.50 ticket. One winning M1lhão code newly formed group launching a multi- will be randomly selected on the Friday national game was posted internally at Française des Jeux: One French player evening and if you have the matching Camelot. Everything was put into place is guaranteed to win €1 million in every ticket you win €1 million. within four months for the first drawing to draw thanks to the supplementary My be held in February of 2004. Andrew has Million game. You receive one free Loterias y Apuestas del Estado Spain: You served as served as General Secretary of entry into My Million with every line of pay €2.50 per line in Spain, and every time SLE since 2005.

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