How to Play EuroMillions: Rules, Countries & Draw Times

EuroMillions is Europe's biggest lottery by jackpot size, run jointly by lottery operators across nine countries. Here's exactly who can play, how the numbers work, and what to expect from a draw.

Which countries can play

EuroMillions tickets are officially sold in 9 countries: France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Austria. Residents of a few smaller neighbouring territories — Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and the Isle of Man — can also buy in through retailers just across the border. Outside these regions, some players use licensed international betting services that let you wager on the outcome of the draw, which is a different legal arrangement from buying an official ticket in a participating country.

How to play

Choose 5 main numbers from 1 to 50, then 2 Lucky Star numbers from 1 to 12. Matching all 5 main numbers plus both Lucky Stars wins the jackpot. There are 13 prize tiers below that, so matching just 2 main numbers plus 1 Lucky Star already wins a small prize. Each country also adds its own supplementary game bundled into the ticket price — My Million in France, El Millón in Spain, M1lhão in Portugal, and the UK Millionaire Maker in Britain.

Draw schedule and ticket price

Draws take place every Tuesday and Friday, at 20:45 Central European Time in Paris. A standard line costs €2.50 in most countries (£2.50 in the UK, CHF 3.50 in Switzerland). Tickets can usually be bought for a single draw or for up to eight consecutive draws at once.

Jackpot size and odds

The jackpot starts at a minimum of €17 million and can climb as high as €240 million — the highest cap of any European lottery — before further rollovers spill down into lower prize tiers. The odds of matching all 5 numbers plus both Lucky Stars are 1 in 139,838,160; see our full odds guide for how that's calculated, and our EuroMillions vs EuroJackpot comparison if you're deciding between the two.

A brief history

EuroMillions launched in February 2004 as a joint venture between the French, Spanish, and UK national lotteries, designed to pool ticket sales across borders and produce bigger jackpots than any single country's lottery could offer alone. Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Switzerland joined over the following years, building it into the pan-European draw it is today.

See real EuroMillions statistics

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