Eurojackpot has gained widespread recognition over the years. When we celebrate such a milestone, one might think that it has always been this way. But there was a time it was never in existence and a time when its existence was not noised abroad. Below is a brief history of the Eurojackpot lottery.
HOW IT STARTED
The Eurojackpot lottery was proposed in 2006, to compete with the EuroMillions lottery. As a result of a large number of participating countries, the EuroMillions offered appreciably larger jackpots than those offered in other single national lotteries. On seeing the weight EuroMillions was pulling, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy, and the Netherlands had to meet in Amsterdam in the year 2011 to wrap off negotiations for the Eurojackpot lottery and to launch the rollout in 2012. When negotiations were completed, Estonia also identified to participate in the lottery. The first ticket sales of Eurojackpot started on March 17, 2012, while the first draw, the first of Its kind, was carried out on March 23, 2012.
Spain identified with the Eurojackpot lottery from 30 June 2012 with the ticket concession given to ONCE, the National Organization of Spanish blind people. On February 1, 2013, other countries like Croatia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden joined in the lottery. The Czech Republic and Hungary became part of Eurojackpot from October 10, 2014, Slovakia from October 9, 2015, and Poland from September 15, 2017. Comparatively, the Eurojackpot has secured a wider reach of potential players with several audiences in local countries of 300 million, compared to the Euromillions of 217 million.
The gameplay was adjusted on Friday, October 10, 2014, having the number of the smaller set, the "Euronumbers", in the Perle machine increasing from 8 to 10. The odds of winning the jackpot declined from 1:59,325,280 to 1 in 95,344,200. At LottoPark, you can play and buy Eurojackpot tickets online.
COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATE IN THE EUROJACKPOT LOTTERY
Eurojackpot lottery game can be played by residents of the countries participating in the official draw i.e. Sweden, Spain, Slovenia, Norway, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, Italy, Iceland, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, and Croatia. The Czech Republic and Hungary became part of this in October 2014. Slovakia was identified in October 2015 and Poland in September 2017. Official websites were provided by the organizers to support retail sales and made it possible for results of the draws to be viewed shortly after they have been recorded.
Spain is the only country to participate in both EuroMillions and Eurojackpot lottery games.
THE BEHAVIOR OF EUROJACKPOT LOTTERY JACKPOT
When compared to other lotteries like the EuroMillions and the German Lotto 6 and 49, the design of Eurojackpot makes it possible to pay out more frequently. For this reason, there is no expectation that the lottery will attain the same record-breaking sizes owned by the EuroMillions because it will most likely be won instead.
From the date of launching up to January 31, 2013, the Eurojackpot lottery had a 'rolldown' clause: this was a case where the jackpot is not won for 12 consecutive draws, the 13th draw will be fitting for a rolldown which suggests that if no winner can match all 7 winning numbers, the jackpot is awarded to the succeeding winning tier where there is an available winner. Because of this clause, the jackpot record of 27,545,857.50 euros was set in August 2012, when a German player matched the 5 main numbers, and only one of the Euro numbers (out of two), went with the jackpot in the second prize tier.
NOTABLE WINNINGS OF EUROJACKPOT LOTTERY
The record for the largest jackpot for the EuroJackpot was set for the first time on May 15, 2015, by a person from the Czech Republic who won the 90,000,000.00 Euro jackpot.
The 7th of January 2017 was the first event where multiple players won the same divided jackpot. For the first time, five persons (one from each German federal f Berlin, Niedersachsen and, Hessen, with a winner from Denmark and one from the Netherlands) won 18,000,000.00 Euro after a week. At that time the maximum Jackpot with 90,000,000.00 Euro hadn't been drawn. After which it was followed by the next multiple 5+2 wins on 10 February, this time a Hungarian player won the country's biggest-ever lottery prize.
A Finnish syndicate of 50 players from Siilinjärvi played a system ticket for 500.00 Euro and won on August 23, 2019, the biggest jackpot amount in addition to more winnings from the lower prize classifications, this means that the record prize of 91,938,695.00 Euro (84,174,472.21 GBP).
On 22 November 2019, 2 German and 1 Hungarian player landed 90,000,000.00 Euro. Each of the players was awarded 30,000,000.00 Euro.
Click here to check more information about the Eurojackpot prizes and jackpot.
The history of Eurojackpot is now with us in the present. We know you found this article to be worth your time. You can also read our article about how to play Eurojackpot online to get more information before playing.
« back to the news list
