Saturday, 21 November 2009

Playing The Euro Lotto - Strength In Numbers Has An Immense Difference

There have been many multi-millionaires created, since the launch of the Euro Millions and it is also known as the Euro Lotto - a lottery organization within the European community.  In 2005, a lady from rural Ireland won the first ever Jackpot winning £115 million playing this game. So far, Euro lotto results have been significant since that time with the king of all Euro lotto winners crowned, in the spring of 2009. Also, there was a young lady from Spain who chose to remain anonymous, as do many who take delivery of such vast sums of money.  To date, she is estimated to be the recipient of the biggest single lump sum payout to a lotto ticket winner ever.
To play the Euro Lotto you need to choose seven winning numbers, as with most of the lottery games.  The Euro Lottery game uses two sets of balls: 1 set comprises balls numbered one to fifty from a machine called the Stresa, where five winning numbers are chosen, the second set comprises of balls one to nine, where two additional lucky star numbers are chosen, from a machine called the Paquerette.
To play the Euro lotto you must be generally over the age of 18 years and live within the following European countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and UK.  The draw takes place in Paris France every Friday evening, there are millions of people who play this lotto and it sometimes happens that nobody wins it outright so the jackpot is rolled over and added to the jackpot fund for the next Euromillions draw.
Although Euromillions is by no means the oldest lottery in the world, Euro millions is without doubt one of the biggest and most popular. In fact, it has been so successful that it is being used as a model for an even bigger World Lottery that will be launched at some point in the future.  Right now you'd find it very difficult to find any lottery that has what it takes to beat the fun and excitement of playing this game.
Generally speaking, to buy a Euromillions lottery ticket the normal way you would have to be a resident of one of the nine participating member countries where you could pick up your ticket from a lottery retailer. However, with the introduction of internet based lottery ticket sales agents you can now purchase your desired amount of Euro Millions lotto tickets no matter where you live in the world.
Presently, many lotteries in the United States donate large portions of their proceeds to the public education system. With this vast European lottery playing population, the Euro millions has the potential to become the biggest lump-sum, tax-free lottery the world has ever seen, with jackpots already exceeding the £100 million mark.
Now the program may roll-over for only 11 attempts and then "superdraws" guarantee a minimum payout or the funds will be rolled down to the next level of matching numbers, because lottery rollover jackpots are so desirable, many lottery players choose to buy more tickets when there is a lottery rollover draw. We advise anyone who does this to buy their lottery tickets online so that they don't risk losing them.

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