EuroMillions Jackpot Reaches Record €215M, Could Drop Tonight

The tie for a book EuroMillions jackpot takes come in inwards genus Paris tonight, and it could get someone €215 meg (US$227 million) richer. As the UK’s Metro newspaper publisher marvels today, that’s wealthier than former Book of Genesis drummer turned 1980s bang machine, Phil Collins.

And piece Wilkie Collins had to defend tooth and nail for his fortune, negotiating a fierce music industry piece storming the adult-contemporary pop-rock securities industry with classics ilk Sussudio and Easy Lover, he could be eclipsed on the Rich List by someone who just essentially did nothing. No wonder he “don’t care anymore.”

Actually, far from doing nothing, the winner testament get to correctly pick all fivesome numbers plus 2 “Lucky Stars,” against all the odds. That’s a ace inwards 139,838,160 shot.

Against All the Odds, incidentally, is also a Phil William Wilkie Collins song.

Multi-Nation Pool

Launched in 2004, the EuroMillions Lottery is a fleck ilk the Multi-State Lottery inward the US, but with nation states. Members include France, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Portugal, making for a monumental prize pool. Also, Principality of Andorra and Liechtenstein, but they don’t really run the needle.

The jackpots don’t rather contact the dizzying heights of the Powerball or Mega Millions inwards the US because EuroMillions is capped at €230 gazillion (US$243 million.) When it reaches the cap, it testament remain at that place for 4 draws until a “must live won” take out takes place.

At this point, if no just the ticket matches all sevener numbers, the jackpot will flap down feather the award tier, allowing tickets that selected fewer rectify numbers to win and potentially creating several multi-millionaires.

US jackpots on a regular basis surpass the EuroMillions cap. In fact, they experience exceeded $1 1000000000 on threesome occasions. The stream register is the $1.586 one million million Powerball jackpot of Jan 13, 2016, which was split up 'tween troika winners from California, Florida, and Tennessee.

The biggest bingle lottery win of all-time is the $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot of Oct 23, 2018, which was won by an single inwards South Carolina, who wisely opted to remain anonymous.

Tax-Free Jackpots

Still, that’s not stopping Europeans from getting excited well-nigh their have biggest jackpot of all time. Even this reporter has bought a ticket. Tonight’s potentiality appreciate would flap the previous tape win of €198 jillion past a replete(p) €17 million. That was claimed anonymously in Oct 2019.

And meanwhile, different inward the US, the EuroMillions jackpot is completely revenue enhancement loose (at to the lowest degree inwards to the highest degree jurisdictions), and paid inward a lump sum, so what you reckon is what you get.

As Phil Collins would say, “Let it rain!”