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You win EuroMillions prizes by matching your selected numbers to those drawn in the winning line. Match just a couple of main numbers to receive an award, or predict the full set correctly to land a jackpot worth up to €210 million. Discover more about all the EuroMillions odds and payouts.

They would also become the UK’s third biggest National Lottery jackpot winner to date. Top of the National Lottery Rich List are Colin and Chris Weir who banked a £161 million EuroMillions. It was launched in 2004. Draw for Euromillions Lottery takes place on every Tuesday and Friday evenings and it offers minimum jackpot of €17 million and it is rolls over as high as €200 million as if there is no jackpot winner in the draw.

EuroMillions Payouts

There are 13 different EuroMillions prizes on offer in every draw. However, the amount you win in each tier is not a fixed amount. Instead, a percentage of the total prize fund is allocated to each category and that is split between winners. This is known as a pari-mutuel method and leads to variation in the prize amounts, because the number of tickets sold and the number of winners is always different.

The following table shows all the different ways to win prizes, along with the odds of winning. You can see how much of the prize fund is allocated to each tier and the average payout you can expect if you match those numbers.

Figures calculated using results drawn between 10/05/2011 and 05/02/2021.

The jackpot starts at €17 million and if there are no winners the full amount rolls over to the following draw. It can keep rolling over all the way to its maximum of €210 million; visit the Jackpot Cap page to find out what happens when the jackpot reaches this amount.

Apart from the jackpot, the funds allocated to a prize tier are added to the category below if there are no winners in any of the participating countries.

Due to the pari-mutuel nature of calculating prizes, it is possible that the EuroMillions payout for one of the lower tiers might actually be larger in value than the payout for a higher prize tier. All prizes are rounded down to the nearest 10p.

How EuroMillions Prizes Are Funded

The base currency of EuroMillions is the Euro, but calculating prizes in sterling isn’t always as simple as converting amounts directly from Euros to pounds. The following steps demonstrate how EuroMillions prizes are funded and why there is sometimes a difference in the prizes paid out to UK players and those from other countries. You can find a more detailed explanation of the process following this guide.

• Every participating EuroMillions country pays €1.10 from every ticket sold into the Common Prize Fund.
• The National Lottery’s contribution to the Common Prize Fund is £0.87 from every ticket, which is converted to Euros on the date of the relevant draw.
• After the draw, the money in the Common Prize Fund is used to pay out winners in all countries and is split according to the percentages in the prize table.
• But wait! According to current exchange rates £0.87 is worth less than €1.10, so the UK has paid less into the Common Prize Fund than other countries have.
• To balance this, the shortfall is deducted from the funds available to pay UK players. The funds left available to pay prizes are still split according to the percentages in the prize table.
• The jackpot is exempt from these rules, so players in all participating countries win the same amount in Euros.

If in the future it comes to be that Camelot’s contribution to the Common Prize Fund amounts to more than the contribution from other countries, UK players will receive bigger payouts than players in those other countries.

When converting the funds back to sterling, the same exchange rate is used as was used when the National Lottery contributed funds to the Common Prize Fund.

Camelot Prize Fund

EuroMillions prizes are funded by the revenue from ticket sales. The price of a £2.50 ticket is split into £1.74 for entry into EuroMillions and £0.76 for entry to the UK Millionaire Maker raffle. As the two games cannot be entered separately to each other, the price of a ticket is always advertised as £2.50.

Fifty percent of the £1.74 that goes on EuroMillions is used to fund prizes, creating what the National Lottery refers to as the ‘Camelot Prize Fund.’ The other 50 percent of the ticket revenue is used to fund good causes and to pay various operating costs and commissions.

This prize fund is used to pay out EuroMillions prizes and is split between each prize tier according to the percentages shown in the prize table on this page. The remaining 10 percent goes to the EuroMillions Reserve Fund, which is in place to ensure that the minimum top prize of €17 million can always be offered. It is also used to pay for other special promotional events such as Superdraws.

Some of the percentages change after the first five draws in a rollover series. At that point the amount allocated to the jackpot goes from 50 percent to 42 percent and the contribution to the Reserve Fund increases from 10 percent to 18 percent. A rollover series starts from the first draw after the EuroMillions jackpot has been won.

The Camelot Prize Fund and the Common Prize Fund are two different things. The former is the amount of money that has accumulated from UK ticket sales to pay out prizes, while the latter is the money that has accumulated from ticket sales in all countries, including the UK. The Camelot Prize Fund is paid into the Common Prize Fund.

Common Prize Fund

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Every country that participates in EuroMillions contributes €1.10 from every ticket sold into what’s known as the ‘Common Prize Fund.’ The National Lottery’s contribution to this shared fund is the money that has accrued in the Camelot Prize Fund.

The money that has been paid into the Common Prize Fund is then used to pay out all prizes in all participating countries. The amount of money required to pay out prizes is paid back to the EuroMillions provider in each country. For UK prizes, the money is converted back to sterling using the same exchange rate that was used when the National Lottery paid into the Common Prize Fund.

Why UK prizes are different to the payouts in other countries

The difference in the value of sterling and Euros has an effect on how much prize money is paid out to UK players. At present the National Lottery’s contribution to the Common Prize Fund is £0.87 (50 percent of £1.84) from every ticket sold, which when exchanged to Euros is less than the €1.10 that other countries pay into the fund.

This difference is accounted for when the prize money is paid back to the National Lottery from the Common Prize Fund. The value of the shortfall is deducted from the amount of money the UK has to pay out prizes. The result is that UK winners receive proportionately less than winners from other countries.

For example, if the UK sells five million tickets for a particular draw, the National Lottery’s contribution to the Common Prize Fund would work out at £4.35 million. If the exchange rate on the day of the draw determines that £1 equals €1.10, this contribution would be worth around €4.8 million.

France pays €1.10 into the Common Prize Fund, so if five million tickets are also sold there for the same draw, the country would contribute €5.5 million into the Common Prize Fund, around €700,000 more than the UK paid in.

To balance this out and ensure players in all countries are paid fairly, the amount of money available to pay UK players would be reduced by €700,000 – the same amount as the shortfall in the contribution from the National Lottery.*

This goes both ways, so if the exchange rate between pounds and Euros ever changes to the point where the UK’s contribution to the Common Prize Fund amounts to more than that of other countries, UK players would receive bigger payouts than players in those countries.

* Please note that the figures provided here are for illustrative purposes only and are not based on actual sales figures from the UK National Lottery or any other EuroMillions partner.

The EuroMillions jackpot can roll over until it reaches a maximum of €210 million. When it reaches that amount the top prize is capped, which also changes how certain other prizes are calculated. Learn everything you need to know about the EuroMillions jackpot cap and how it works.

How the Jackpot Cap Works

The EuroMillions jackpot starts at €17 million (around £15 million) and if it is not won the prize money increases for the next draw. This is known as a rollover. The increase in the jackpot’s value can vary between draws, as it is partly based on the number of tickets sold.

The jackpot will roll over until at least one player matches all five main numbers plus both Lucky Stars, or it reaches its €210 million maximum jackpot. After reaching the cap, a maximum of four more draws can go by before the jackpot must be awarded. For these draws, any additional prize money that would usually have gone towards the jackpot is instead allocated to the Match 5+1 tier below it.

In the fifth draw after the jackpot cap is reached, the prize money is guaranteed to be given away in what is called a ‘Must Be Won’ draw. If no players match all seven numbers to win it, the money rolls down to the next winning tier. This means that in this fifth draw, players who match five numbers plus a Lucky Star, or even those who match just five numbers, could get a share of the €210 million.

• The jackpot cap is currently set at €210 million
• After the cap is hit, further funds from ticket sales go to the Match 5+1 prize
• The jackpot must be won if it remains at its cap for five draws
• The cap increases by €10 million every time it is reached and the jackpot is won
• In future the jackpot cap could rise as high as €250 million

The steps below summarise what happens in the draws following the activation of the EuroMillions cap. Select a step to view more details about what happens at that stage in the process.

The jackpot hits the €210 million cap. Any funds that would usually go towards topping up the jackpot are instead shared by players in the next winning tier.

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The €210 million jackpot doesn’t get bigger, as it would if it rolled over before hitting the cap. Extra funds are again diverted to a lower prize tier.

Proceeds as per draw two. At this point there will likely be many winners in the 5+1 prize tier, but the prize money will also be much higher than usual.

This is the penultimate draw at the cap. If the jackpot doesn’t get won in this draw a Must Be Won draw will take place in the next one.

This is a ‘Must Be Won’ draw. If any players match five numbers plus both Lucky Stars, they will win the jackpot as normal, but if no one manages that, the entire €100 million prize will be shared by the winners in the next tier below.

The jackpot resets to its €17 million (£15 million) starting value and the next rollover series begins. The jackpot cap is raised by €10 million, unless it is already set at its final value of €250 million.

Must Be Won Draws

Must Be Won draws guarantee that a jackpot will be given away, regardless of whether anyone matches all five numbers and two Lucky Stars. If any players do manage that in a Must Be Won draw, they will win the jackpot as normal. If that doesn't happen, the players in the 'Match 5+1' tier will share the jackpot instead. If there are no winners in either of the top two prize tiers, the money will be shared by winners in the 'Match 5' tier, and so on until the jackpot is awarded.

• 8th October 2019 - The top prize rolled over all the way from its starting value to €190 million (the jackpot cap at the time) and remained there for the next five draws.
• 17th November 2006 - The jackpot rolled down for the first – and so far only – time as there were no Match 5 + 2 winners. Instead, 20 ticket holders each won £6.7 million (€9.6 million) after matching five main numbers and one Lucky Star.
• 3rd February 2006 - After 11 draws without a winner, the jackpot had to be won. Three players – two from France and one from Portugal - matched all the numbers to share €183 million.

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The Jackpot Cap Can Increase

The EuroMillions jackpot was set at €200 million in February 2020, an increase of €10 million on the previous cap of €190 million. It was the first time in eight years that changes were made to the cap. Further rules implemented at the same time allow the cap to increase more frequently in future.

Every time the jackpot cap is reached and the prize money gets won, another change to the cap will be triggered. At that point another €10 million will be added to the maximum possible jackpot, and this will happen again every time the cap gets hit, until it reaches €250 million.

The increase to the cap does not trigger until the jackpot gets won. So, for example, when the €200 million cap is reached, that amount must be won before the extra €10 million is added. The jackpot will reset and a new rollover series will begin, and that’s when the cap will change to €210 million.

These events occurred for the first time in December 2020 when the €200 million cap was reached and subsequently won, meaning the cap increased to its current amount of €210 million.

How Increases to the Jackpot Cap Work

The jackpot rolls over until it hits the €210 million cap

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It stays at that amount until it is won or it rolls down in a Must Be Won draw

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The jackpot resets to its starting value of €17 million

The jackpot rolls over until it hits the €220 million cap

It stays at that amount until it is won or it rolls down in a Must Be Won draw

The jackpot resets, the cap increases to €230 million, and the process repeats until the cap hits its absolute maximum of €250 million.

The potential €250 million cap makes EuroMillions the biggest lottery in Europe. The following table shows how it compares to some other national and transnational lotteries. Only Italy’s SuperEnalotto has paid a bigger prize than EuroMillions, but that came after over a year of rollovers!