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FRIDAY’S EUROMILLIONS DRAW will boast the largest jackpot in the lottery’s history – a mammoth €185,000,000 – as there were no winners of last night’s draw where €176m was up for grabs.
The jumbo-sized jackpots are a result of the recent expansion of the lottery, which saw the introduction of an extra draw per week and an inflation in the prizes on offer.
If the lottery is won by a single lucky ticket-holder, their prize will dwarf the previous record victory – won by an anonymous Briton who took a €129,818,431 prize last October.
Before that, the record was held by an anonymous 25-year-old Spanish woman who was the sole winner of a €126m jackpot in May 2009.
The previous record jackpot was €183,000,000, won by two French people and one Portuguese in February 2006 when the jackpot rolled over eleven times.
Ireland’s largest lottery winner was Limerick mother-of-six Dolores McNamara, who was the sole winner of a €115m jackpot in July 2005.
To take the jackpot, a ticketholder will need to match all five (out of 50) main numbers and both of the Lucky Stars, of which there are 11.
Therefore, the odds of winning the Euromillions are a gargantuan 116,531,800-to-1 – meaning you would have to spend over €233m buying enough tickets to guarantee victory.
Even if the jackpot wasn’t shared, the total prize money someone could expect to win would be €211m – making it impossible to guarantee a profit as it sometimes is in the Irish national lottery.
If the jackpot is not won it will remain frozen at its €185m ceiling, with future additions to the jackpot being diverted into a secondary pot which will be made available for victory once the main prize is claimed.
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Just shocking
Half a billion animals have died so far. These bushfires will see the end to many species. It’s unprecedented. The devastation to all of the communities wiped out, reading stories of masses of people staying on beaches so that they can easily jump into the water is absolutely frightening. All we can hope for is rain and a drop in temperatures. As many experts have said, nature started this fire, nature will end it.
@Sirius: Makes you appreciate dreary old Ireland
@Sirius: And the thing is its only getting started, sooner or later they will figure out burning coal is not a good idea and there is a good chance the country will be one very large desert in the future….they have been warned like us all, its up to them to make the change.
Whoever or whatever is to blame …..seeing and hearing about the animals breaks my heart.
I saw a picture today of a dead kangaroo. Burnt alive, trapped in a fenced area. I think it will haunt me forever :(
This is a tragedy.
@moneymaid: Oh no :( I feel the same. Humans can leave their houses to escape to safety but the animals can’t. It’s awful.
It’s hell on earth.
Ways to donate to all the amazing workers trying to mitigate the effects of this catastrophe https://7news.com.au/news/bushfires/bushfires-in-australia-how-you-can-help-c-629603
Heartbreaking.
Devastating. Poor animals.. people should wise up and starting making changes. We are destroying our world. Reduce or eliminate the intake of meat for a start.
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