The Euromillions was launched in February 2004, with the first draw held on February 13 in Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Initially, only the\u00a0UK,\u00a0France\u00a0and\u00a0Spain\u00a0participated, with the\u00a0Austrian,\u00a0Belgian,\u00a0Irish,\u00a0Luxembourgish,\u00a0Portuguese\u00a0and\u00a0Swiss lotteries joining for the October 8 draw.<\/p>\n
From September 24, 2016, the number of lucky stars changed from a pool of 11 to a pool of 12 numbers, decreasing the jackpot-winning odds from 1:117 million to 1:140 million.<\/p>\n
The largest ever jackpot – a whopping \u20ac250 million (\u00a3213.6 million) – has been won on several occasions in 2025, including on August 19, June 17 and March 28. These were won in France, Ireland and Austria, respectively.<\/p>\n
The largest win for a UK player was on July 19, 2022, when the jackpot winner bagged \u20ac230 million (\u00a3195.7 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Euromillions was launched in February 2004, with the first draw held on February 13 in Paris.\u00a0 Initially,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,2238,113070,59,108762,113068,62458,113071,2673,113069,36273,113066,113067,56,62456,113072,54,55],"class_list":["post-276092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-euromillions","tag-game-prizes","tag-gb","tag-lottery-results","tag-lotto-draw","tag-lucky-stars","tag-main-numbers","tag-national-lottery","tag-set-for-life-draw","tag-thunderball","tag-u00a3132-million-jackpot","tag-u00a3500k-jackpot","tag-uk","tag-uk-millionaire-maker","tag-uk-millionaire-maker-code","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}