News about Euromillions lottery

EuroMillions is a well-known lottery in Europe. It has nine participating countries, namely the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Austria, Ireland, Switzerland and Belgium. At the moment the Coronacrisis has a lot of impact on the lives of Europeans. For example, the way they can play in a EuroMillions draw has changed. Why is this and how has it changed?

Less consecutive draws

The EuroMillions group has asked all participating countries to reduce the number of consecutive EuroMillions draws. The decision has been made out of solidarity. The impact of the Corona crisis varies greatly from country to country. Some countries are more affected than others. The number of consecutive EuroMillions draws for which you can play in one go will decrease. This is temporary, happens in a gradual way and has no impact on the Jackpots.

Phased out per two draws

The decision of the EuroMillions group means that a Multidraw, which was usually possible up to ten consecutive draws, will be phased out per two draws. So the Multidraw evolves from playing for 10 consecutive draws to 8 draws and then 6 draws until 4 consecutive draws. The number of 4 consecutive draws will be maintained until the situation returns to normal.

Do not come to the store unnecessary
EuroMillions keeps it possible to play for 4 draws at once in order to limit the visits to a point of sale. This is in line with the rule for to merchants not to let players come to the store unnecessarily. If you go to a point of sale with your form with 10 draws, the seller will inform you that the system accepts your game form but only for the number of pre-played draws that are still possible at that time.

Perhaps a practical example makes it more clear. Perhaps you like to play on Tuesday, March 31. In that case you can participate in 8 consecutive draws. It also means that you will participate in this draw from March 31, 2020 to the draw on Friday April 24th, 2020.

Scheme corona with consecutive EuroMillions draws

If you like to play on Tuesday, April 7 for a series of consecutive draws this will be possible for 6 draws. So you will play for the draw on Tuesday, April 7 up to and including the draw on April 24. Read and save this scheme with the consecutive draws of EuroMillions:

Which draw? How many consecutive draws? Last draw
Friday, March 27th 10 Tuesday, April 28th
Tuesday, March 31st 8 Friday, April 24th
Friday, April 3rd 8 Tuesday, April 28th
Tuesday, April 7th 6 Friday, April 24th
Friday, April 10th 6 Tuesday, April 28th
Tuesday, April 14 4 Friday, April 24th
Friday, April 17th 4 Tuesday, April 28th
Tuesday, April 21st 4 Friday, April 24th
Friday, April 24 4 Tuesday, April 28th
After April 24th Stays 4 until the situation is normal again

A lucky player in Ireland has won the EuroMillions jackpot of an incredible 17 million euros. It’s the first EuroMillions Jackpot won in Ireland this year and the 15th Irish win since the EuroMillions started in 2004.

Always check your ticket
A National Lottery is exiting for EuroMillions players all over Ireland. Are you an EuroMillions player as well? Make sure to check your ticket to discover if you’ve won an incredible sum of money! The winning numbers this time were 24, 26, 32, 43, 46 with the Lucky Stars 6 and 10.

Reaction from spokesperson
A National Lottery spokesperson gave a reaction and called the big win ‘amazing news’. ’17 million euros is a mind-blowing sum of money. EuroMillions is ‘delighted to confirm that this lucky ticket was sold in Ireland.’ The spokesman also asks all EuroMillions winners to check their tickets very carefully, to see if they’re the new EuroMillions Jackpot winner in Ireland.

What to do when you’ve won?

Have you been lucky enough to win? Then sign the back of the ticket, keep it in a safe place and contact the National Lottery Prize Claims team on 01 836 4444. EuroMillions will make arrangements for the winner to collect the fantastic prize.

Past November a EuroMillions player won an incredible 105 million pounds. The very lucky winner has made an interesting decision: he decided to keep working instead of living a luxurious millionaire lifestyle. What’s more: two months after his won he still works as a builder.

Working in a windproof jacket
Steve Thomson from Selsey (West Sussex) is 42 years old a new millionaire. This didn’t keep him from installing double-glazed windows and a new front door at a property near his three-bedroom home. There are several pictures in which we see Steve in a black windproof jacket, jeans and a beanie. He has a hand saw and cuts the white wooden frames.

A promise to keep
It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that Steve is still working. After his win the builder promised not to let his customers down before Christmas. He said would complete all his current building jobs. So Steve is a man that keeps his word!

‘Salt of the earth’
Ellie Wood, neighbor of Steve, isn’t surprised as well and called the guy and his wife ‘salt of the earth’. He isn’t shcked at all that Steve is going to finish his building jobs before retiring. It’s ‘just the guy he is and he would never leave anyone in the lurch’, the neighbor said to the paper.

The new multi-millionaire told the British paper Mirror after his win that he would go back to work, but not until next week. He called the big win ‘really overwhelming’, which is very understandable. Steve has a wife called Lenka. He called the money ‘too much’ for them.

A new home
Steve and Lenka want to do a lot of good things with the money and, in his own words, Steve is going to be ‘sensibly generous’. Of course the couple is going to buy some nice things for themselves as well. For example, they’re planning to buy a new home so that their three children can finally have their own bedrooms.

A very lucky EuroMillions player from the United Kingdom has won 93 million pounds. He has now claimed his big prize and the ticket has been validated by a Winners Advisor. What do we know about the new millionaire?

Anonymous winner
The EuroMillions winner has decided to stay anonymous, so we don’t know a lot of details. There could also be multiple winners. Fact is that the new millionaire has made it to number six in the UK National Lottery Rich List. He or she has more money than F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton, who has 88 million on his bank account. Poor guy!

More money than Hamilton and others

Lewis Hamilton is not the only one who has less money than this EuroMillions winner, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. After years of singing Gary Barlow ‘only’ has 65 million pounds, which is more than ‘poor’ Coldplay singer Chris Martin who has 52 million pounds. Other rich UK celebs:
• Football player Wayne Rooney: 72 million pounds
• Tennis player and Wimbledon winner Andy Murray: 48 million pounds
• Multiple Major winner Rory McIlroy: 38 million pounds

Not the biggest winner
It has been a very good year for EuroMillions so far, because this has already been the third Jackpot win. The new millionaire is not the biggest winner in EuroMillions history though. 93 million pounds is a lot, but not as much as the 161 million dollars from Chris and Colin Weir from Largs in July 2011. The biggest winners before that were Richard and Angela Maxwell from Conningsby. This lucky couple won a Jackpot of 53 million pounds!

A Belgian EuroMillions player has been very lucky recently. One night he won more than 300.000 euros! He’s not the only lucky player though. Another Belgian won more than 300.000 euros and an Irish player topped everything by winning the EuroMillions Jackpot of more than 175 million euros! How did they manage to win?

Belgian winners

Winning EuroMillions sounds very easy: your ticket numbers need to match with the numbers that appear during the draw. This is exactly what the Irish and Belgian winners did. They didn’t use a strategy, but were simply lucky enough. The Belgian who won 300.000 euros entered the five winning numbers and one winning star correctly. Together with five other Europeans the winner, who is anonymous, won an incredible 317.392,60 euros in total. The other Belgian winner also had five numbers and one star, and could add 316.859,90 euros on his or her bank account.

New Jackpot is worth millions

The Belgians players have won a lot of money, but not as much as the Irish winner who also had the second winning star. Because of that, he or she won 175,475,380.00 euros in total! The lucky numbers were 1, 8, 18, 19 and 39 and the winning stars 7 and 9 made him or her millionaire. Weren’t you as lucky as the Irish or Belgian winners? Then play again for the new Jackpot. It currently contains 17 million euros, so it’s definitely worth trying!

A family syndicate from Dublin has won the EuroMillions Jackpot, worth more than 175 million euros! They wrote history, since it’s the biggest Jackpot claimed by an Irish ticket holder ever. How did the now very rich syndicate react?

Good news

The family syndicate lives in north County Dublin, in a place called Naul. It’s located close to the border with County Meath. One of the family members bought the winning ticket at Reilly’s Daybreak in Naul. A female family member realized that Lady Fortune had been at their side when she checked the winning numbers after the draw on Tuesday evening. She heard on the news that there had been a win in Ireland and decided to check the numbers online.

Shaking legs and disbelief
It took quite some time to convince everyone in the syndicate that they had the winning ticket. Even the owner of the shop where the ticket was sold did not believe it at first. He got sick in his stomach and his legs started to shake. It was just total shock, he told the press. The family member who bought the winning ticket put it under her mattress to keep it safe. She barely slept that night, she told. Very understandable!

A dream come true
The winners did not react themselves, but have a spokesperson who is married to one of the family members. He said the family is very close and that it’s a ‘dream come true’. He says the big win is unbelievable and that it will take them some time to deal with the good news. They have to organize themselves again before realization will probably hit: their lives will never be the same.

When will the prize be paid out?

The lucky family deposited the winning ticket with the UK National Lottery to keep it safe.
Although their lives will never the same, the spokesperson of the family said that they don’t want the money to change their lives. Instead the money must be shared so that the children, grandchildren and other family members can all enjoy it. The prize will be paid out in the next couple of weeks.

Excitement in the air
On Wednesday, the family deposited the winning ticket for safe keeping with the National Lottery and arrangements are now being made for the prize claim to be paid out in the next few weeks. Obviously the small village of Naul is very excited about the big win. There’s a buzz in the year, and most people find it amazing.

Previous winners
The CEO of the National Lottery, Dermot Griffin, is obviously very content with the big win. He says it’s an incredibly lucky time for the players on this Irish island. The big win is the 14th time someone has won the EuroMillions Jackpot in Ireland. A while back, a couple living in North Ireland became millionaires when they bought the winning ticket worth 115 million euros! Another Jackpot fell during New Year’s Day draw, on the ticket of Patrick and Frances Connolly from Moira. This was the fourth biggest EuroMillions win in the United Kingdom, and the biggest to date in Northern Ireland.

Roll-over until a big win
Sometimes a single player wins a big prize as well. In 2005 Dolores McNamara from Limerick was lucky enough to win an incredible 115 million euros. She was probably very patient, since it can take a while before the Jackpot hits. Since January 2019 the Jackpot has been rolling over. If there’s going to be a winner, he or she receives a cheque worth €175,475,380. Enough reason to participate we would say!