EuroMillion in the News

News and information from the world of the EuroMillion Lottery

Bachelor Wins EuroMillions
A EuroMillions lottery win made Christmas 2007 one to remember for a bachelor living in Warrenpoint, Count Down. John McGivern, who has six sisters living nearby, matched five main numbers and one Lucky Star number to win £373,854 in the EuroMillions draw that was held on Friday 21 December.

In the Family Way
Two UK ticket winners have gone public having won £6,989,367.40 each in the £88million Euromillions draw on Friday 28 September. The fantastic wins go to two family syndicates, one is a six-person syndicate from Cardiff, and the other a two-person syndicate from Chesterfield, all of whom are now some of Britain’s newest millionaires.

£88 Millions Superdraw
Nobody matched all five main numbers and two lucky stars to win the jackpot so the money rolled-down to the next prize tier of matching five numbers plus just one lucky star. That meant 14 players shared £89,986,000, giving them nearly £6,989,367.40 each at odds of just 1 in 5,448,240!!! Of those 14 winners, 6 are from the UK, 5 from Spain, 2 from France and 1 from Belgium.

EuroMillions Like Buses?
They say that certain things in life come in threes. Almost all of us have had the experience of waiting for a bus and then seeing several arrive in succession just as we were about to give up and walk home. People also say that luck runs in threes – we play a game for days, weeks or months and then we win, and win again, and win yet again. Whether such clusters of success are random events or some kind of cosmic synchronicity isn’t for us to say, but if it’s the latter then there are two great reasons to play the Euromillions lottery.

Record British EuroMillions Winner goes Public
The British winner of the £35.4 million EuroMillions jackpot on Friday 10 August has come forward to claim her prize and opted to allow her win to be made public knowledge. The winner is one Angela Kelly, a forty year old postal administrator from Glasgow.

Payment Deadline looms
Two Euromillions players have until 5:30pm on Wednesday 9 May, 2007, to each claim their prize of £56,339.70 which was won in the draw on 10 November, 2006. The lottery organisers say that one winner bought their ticket in the Edinburgh area, and that the other ticket was bought in the Hounslow area.

Third Birthday Celebrations
EuroMillions is celebrating its third birthday with a guranteed £66 million draw which must be won. In other words the jackpot will roll-down to the next tier until won.

First Rolldwon Winner Emerges
Dean Hardman, a Bury football supporter is now £6.75m better off after becoming one of the seven UK winners of the huge Euromillions jackpot on 17 November 2006. There was no way he could remain anonymous as he checked his ticket in the Crown Inn pub in Heywood.

Lucky 7 for the UK
Seven Euromillions players from the UK were among the 20 who shared the £120 million jackpot prize fund on Friday 17 November.

How to play EuroMillions
The rules of the game, from choosing your numbers, through buying your ticket to receiving your prize.

EuroMillions Prize Allocation
Where the ticket money goes and how it is split amongst the twelve tiers of prizes you can win on Euro Millions.

Jackpot Roll-down Procedures
The Euromillions lottery has a rule, introduced on 20th January 2006, limiting how many times the jackpot pool can rollover.

What makes you wealthy?
The perception of what makes a person exceptionally wealthy varies across Europe as a survey of the countries that play EuroMillions shows.

Bon Chance Euro Millions
An unemployed Frenchman, aged 55, and one of his children are celebrating winning €75,880,000 (around £50 million) on EuroMillions.

British EuroMillions Winners
Most people would have a list as long as their arm on what they would spend a lottery win of £10 million. Unlike Michael and Jean O-Shea from Sneinton Dale, Nottingham who have no plans to move and buy a bigger house, despite just having won over £10 million from the Euromillions draw.

Euro millions mania
The £125 million, record-breaking EuroMillions jackpot was shared by three ticket holders following the draw on Friday night. Two winners live in France and one in Portugal. Each ticket holder wins €61,191,026 or approximately £41,740,000. Camelot, which runs the competition with operators in the eight other countries, said "sales had gone up by 1200% on a normal week. Over the last 12 weeks £15m has been raised Good Causes from EuroMillions alone".

Eric from Evian
La Francaise des Jeux announced a clean winner from Friday 3 Feb’s EuroMillions record Jackpot Draw. Eric is a 30 year old from the world-renowned spa town of Evian, but worked as an assistant Maitre D’ of a hotel in Geneva at the other end of Lac Leman (Geneva) to Evian.

Euromillions winner goes into hiding
A mother-of-six from Ireland who scooped €115 million (around £77 million) in EuroMillions, making it one of the biggest lottery wins in history, was said to be in hiding from the media.

Euromillions huge jackpot still rising
The Euromillions jackpot now stands at £100million (Euros 152million) and your odds of winning it are one in 76,275,360. This is the tenth Friday in a row that the jackpot has not been won, despite millions of people all over Europe queuing to get a ticket. But that’s because it’s not easy!

Belgian Luck
One of the biggest ever EuroMillions jackpots was won by two tickets on 7 July 2006. The total jackpot was EUR 68.4m and is shared by a couple form Ghent in Belgium and a Swiss winner.

EuroMillions Twelfth Draw
Where were you last Friday night? Well you weren’t winning the Euromillions lottery jackpot of £103million, in fact no one was. As for the eleventh week running the jackpot goes unclaimed, with the numbers being 36, 30, 14, 27 and 21 and the Lucky Stars were 2 and 3.

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