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EuroMillions [a] is a transnational lottery that requires seven correct numbers to win the jackpot, which consists of 5 main numbers and 2 Lucky Star Numbers. It was launched on 7 February 2004 by France 's Française des Jeux , Spain 's Loterías y Apuestas del Estado and the United Kingdom 's Allwyn .
Each player won 30,000,000.00 Euro (The one Hungarian player won more than 10 billion Forint, which is the country's biggest-ever lottery prize, overtaking again the most famous 5/90 Ötöslottó's most record with 6431 million Forint, which was 24˙267˙124,51 Euro as in the currency of 28 March 2020).
A UK ticket-holder is set to become the third-biggest National Lottery winner of all time after claiming a £177m jackpot from Tuesday’s EuroMillions draw. Ticket-holders were urged to check ...
In October 2023, the National Lottery launched EuroDreams, a joint venture with the lotteries of seven other European countries—Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. [87] The National Lottery's first annuity-style game, EuroDreams features a top prize of €20,000 per month for 30 years. Players choose six ...
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The first French lottery was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.
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The Spanish Christmas Lottery is considered to be the world's largest lottery. [85] The 2011 top prize of €720 million [ citation needed ] was paid out as €4 million [ 86 ] (US$5.2 million) to each of the 180 tickets.