How to Win at Euromillions

Euromillions is a European lottery game that was created in 2004. You have to be a resident of a European country in order to participate, even though some European syndicates allow people all over the world to participate. The first ever Euromillions draw took place in Paris on "lucky" Friday, February 13, 2004. Since then, there has been a Euromillions draw every single Friday and you can buy a ticket for €2 per panel.

In order to play Euromillions, you must pick 5 numbers ranging from 1 to 50, and 2 lucky stars, ranging from 1 to 9. The jackpot is won when one or more tickets match the 5 numbers plus the 2 lucky stars. The biggest ever Euromillions jackpot was €183 on 17 November 2006, after there was no jackpot winning ticket for 11 successive draws; on the 12th draw, as there was still no tickets matching the 5 numbers and 2 lucky stars, the jackpot was divided amongst the 20 participants with tickets matching 5 numbers and 1 lucky star.

After a few unsuccessful attempts in winning the Euromillions jackpot, I tried to devise a Euromillions winning strategy but all I could come up with was a list of grossly unreasonable ways to win the Euromillions jackpot (except maybe the last one). Here they are:

With one out of 76,275,360 chances of winning the jackpot, you could try playing every single combination of numbers and lucky stars, but it will cost you €152,550,720 and unless you invest in some expensive equipment or manual labour, you might spend the rest of your life (and a few pens too) filling out Euromillions panels.