Euro
Millions is a great way to play the lottery, you can either
combine it as many people do and play it alongside the UK
lottery or you can commit yourself to just playing the Euro
Millions lottery alone and could potentially win just as
much, if not more!
If like a growing number of people you chose to come on
board and start playing the Euro Millions week after
week you’d clearly be making a wise choice as I am about to
explain; As you’ve probably guessed from the name, Euro
Millions is a European lottery, it takes place once a week
on a Friday and one of the great things about the Euro
Millions is that it is not limited to the residents of just
one particular country! No, the Euro Millions pools the
stakes of the “nine” countries that are currently
participating.
These countries include Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland,
Luxemburg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. So as
you can imagine it is huge! And the prizes are a great deal
larger too; this is mainly because of the vast amount of
people playing but also because the main pool prize is
“rolled over” to the next draw if there is no jackpot winner
and so the prize can be as high as 50 million Euros. It’s no
surprise then that the Euro Millions lottery is one
of the biggest lotteries on the planet and probably one of
the most exciting too.
The first Euro Millions draw took place on Friday the 13th
of February in 2004. It included the three main lottery
organizers; Camelot in the UK, the Francaise des jeux in
France and the Loterias y apuestas des estad in Spain. On
that first draw the prize jackpot was worth 15 million
Euros. This is very impressive! Since then the highest
single winner was a lady named Delores McNamara who won a
staggering 115.6 million Euros which equates to about
£77,000,000. And that’s not all; three syndicate winners
received over 183,000,000 Euros’ between them. This also
brings me to the tried and tested winning strategies that
we’ve seen time and time again, it seems that lottery
syndicating is proving to be one of the best kept secrets of
continued winning success for a lot of people who are
consistent at playing the lottery and serious about
increasing their odds so just keep that in mind!
So how can you increase your odds of winning? This is
probably the million dollar question on every players mind
and we’d love to give you one simple answer if we knew it!
But we don’t. Besides it would take away all the fun,
excitement and anticipation of playing the euro millions
every week wouldn’t it? But what we can do is give you some
useful hints and tips that we’ve seen work for ourselves and
for many other players over the years. Remember you don’t
always need to win the jackpot for it to make a huge
difference to your life. Read on…
There have been a lot of Euro Millions players who have won
a small fortune just by matching the five main numbers and
just one Lucky Star. The odds of achieving this are 1 in
5,448,240 as apposed to 1 in 76,275,360 for winning the
ultimate jackpot. But in these cases sometimes the jackpot
has rolled over for weeks at a time and so is guaranteed to
pay out even if nobody wins the top prize. You can also
maximize your chances by simply buying more tickets.
It seems obvious I know, but it doesn’t have to be just you
who buys them, you can get together with a group of friends,
such as work colleagues or family members and then divide
the costs between you or if you want a more legitimate
contract (just in case you suspect one of them runs off with
all the money) you could join a professional and regulated
online syndicate, that way terms and conditions make the
whole thing legal and fair.
You could also combine playing the UK lottery throughout the
week and then the euro millions on a
Friday as Euro Millions can also be played online as well as
purchasing the tickets from a shop. Another suggestion would
be to play a lucky dip as a lot of people tend to chose
birthdays or significant dates when they chose their
numbers, and these numbers will no doubt crop up time and
time again on friends and families tickets too, so if you
did win you would most likely be sharing the jackpot with
thousands of others, where as random lucky dip numbers are
less likely to be used or repeated.
You could try keeping track of all the winning numbers week
after week and then look for patterns and consistent winning
numbers? Or alternatively use only the number combinations
that haven’t been used before? It’s all about probability!
So what are you waiting for? Remember it’s all about the
odds too, so chose your favourite ways of playing as the
more ways you play the more chances you have of winning the
Euro Millions.
