Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

I am confused and need to share this with you..

I get English TV out here in Germany and have seen that the Euro millions jackpot is advertised in the UK as 100 million pounds.

Out here in Europe it is advertised as €190m.

With me so far.

taking a rough conversion rate into consideration of 1.5 euros to the pound this works out at 150 million euros if you claim it in the UK but 190 million euros if you claim it abroad.

So where is the extra 40 million euros going if you are claiming it in the UK??????

Answers on a post card please

jasey

bloody asylum seekers no doubt

davegtt

we'll probably be taxed on it

jonnyh

Its an estimate. A nice round £100m sounds good. E190m sounds better than E150m (could'nt quite push it to the full E200m).


The odds on the jackpot are 76,000,000:1 btw.

lightning101

Next rollover means someone with just 5 and 1 star could get it - only 14 million to one

jasey

Quick - get out and buy 76 million tickets - 24 Million profit.

I wonder if the bank will do a bridging loan

jasey

Plus it would be my luck that 264 german romanies also won a share

lightning101

A microsoft employee did it in the states when the link up national lottery reached hundred of millions of dollars

davegtt

Buy 76m tickets and win the jackpot, go have a major party then realise there were 5 winners and your 56million in debt

jonnyh

Couple of problems with that.

1) You are not allowed to buy every combination in one go. You would have to fill out tickets for all 76m combinations.

2) Some other git may have the same idea leaving you a min of £26m down.

3) There could be a freak draw with multiple winners (the normal lotto had 33 jackpot winners on a single draw once).

Butty

iTrader: (2)

5 plus 1 is 1 in 2,059,434,720
5 plus 2 is 1 in 16,475,477,760

Jonnyh - I hope that Jasey hasn't got his loan yet - its going to cost you

Nick

jonnyh

From the official lottery site.

EuroMillions prize structure
The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24. Whilst EuroMillions in the UK is a discrete National Lottery game, all prizes at each level are pooled and shared between the winning players in the participating countries. If no-one matches 5 main numbers and 2 Lucky Stars on week 12 of a roll series, the jackpot will roll down to the next winning prize tier of that draw.

MatchWin
(Average Estimate)Approx odds
(1 in x)5 main numbers +
2 Lucky StarsJackpot76,275,3605 main numbers +
1 Lucky Star£282,218.805,448,2405 main numbers£53,392.703,632,1604 main numbers +
2 Lucky Stars£3,559.50339,0024 main numbers +
1 Lucky Star£169.5024,2154 main numbers£79.1016,1433 main numbers +
2 Lucky Stars£53.907,7053 main numbers +
1 Lucky Star£19.605512 main numbers +
2 Lucky Stars£16.505383 main numbers£12.003671 main number +
2 Lucky Stars£7.201032 main numbers +
1 Lucky Star£6.4039

Butty

iTrader: (2)

Hmm, there must be a new way of working out probabilities these days - perhaps my way is too old fashioned and less flattering.
Let Jasey carry on with his loan then.

AS for the missing 40 mil Euro - National Lottery claim that Euromillions is a "discrete National Lottery game" ie not linked exactly with the European version or its prize fund, so they can siphon off what they like.
I hope (naively) that this money is going to charity.

Geezer

If you go to the Euromillions Euorpean website, the jackpot is clearly stated as €152million.

Geezer

KiwiGTI

Of course those are all irrelevant as the biggest hurdle is coming up with £76 million.

jasey

I'll just put it on my Store cards .

Maybe I'll just buy the one ticket then .

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

so I was lied to then

just goes to show you can't trust Australians