EuroMillions

At a glance

Price: £2.50 per line
Draws: Tuesday and Friday, shown live 8:45pm UK time
Sales cutoff: 7:30pm on draw day
Format: Pick 5 from 1–50, plus 2 Lucky Stars from 1–12
Jackpot odds: 1 in 139,838,160
Any prize: 1 in 13
Jackpot cap: €250 million
Included: UK Millionaire Maker entry, one £1m winner guaranteed per draw

How to play

Pick five main numbers from 1 to 50, then two Lucky Stars from 1 to 12. That's it — one line, £2.50. You can choose the numbers yourself, ask for a lucky dip at the counter, or use the generator on this site.

Draws are held on Tuesday and Friday, shown live at 8:45pm UK time, with results from about 9:30pm. Sales close at 7:30pm on draw day; anything bought after that goes into the next draw instead, which is an irritating way to learn the deadline.

EuroMillions is a shared European game: the prize fund is pooled across the participating countries and the jackpot is denominated in euros, so what lands in a UK winner's account depends on the exchange rate on the day.

The £2.50 is not really £2.50

This catches people out, so it's worth stating plainly. Of your £2.50, £1.74 buys the EuroMillions line itself and 76p buys an entry into UK Millionaire Maker, the raffle that runs alongside every UK draw.

The two cannot be played separately. There is no way to buy just the EuroMillions numbers, and no way to buy just the raffle. A lot of players assume the raffle is an optional add-on — it isn't. If you buy a EuroMillions line in the UK or the Isle of Man, you have bought a raffle entry too, and roughly 30% of your stake went to it.

Prize tiers and odds

There are thirteen ways to win. The odds and the shares of the Common Prize Fund are the durable official figures. The pound amounts are a different matter.

The prize column below is illustrative only. EuroMillions is pari-mutuel: each tier gets a fixed share of the prize fund, divided between however many winners there are. The amounts shown were reviewed on 1 April 2025 and vary at every draw with sales, winner counts and the euro-to-sterling rate. Treat them as a sense of scale, not a price list.

EuroMillions prize tiers. Odds are per line. Prize amounts are illustrative and change every draw.
Match	Odds	Share of fund	Illustrative prize
5 + 2 Stars	1 in 139,838,160	50% (draws 1–5), 42% from draw 6	Jackpot
5 + 1 Star	1 in 6,991,908	2.61%	~£130,554
5	1 in 3,107,515	0.61%	~£13,561
4 + 2 Stars	1 in 621,503	0.19%	~£845
4 + 1 Star	1 in 31,076	0.35%	~£78
3 + 2 Stars	1 in 14,126	0.37%	~£37
4	1 in 13,812	0.26%	~£26
2 + 2 Stars	1 in 986	1.30%	~£9
3 + 1 Star	1 in 707	1.45%	~£7
3	1 in 314	2.70%	~£6
1 + 2 Stars	1 in 188	3.27%	~£4
2 + 1 Star	1 in 50	10.30%	~£3.60
2	1 in 22	16.59%	£2.50
Any prize	1 in 13	—	—

Why three numbers can be rarer than four

There's a genuine oddity in the table. Matching 3 numbers and both Lucky Stars comes up at 1 in 14,126 — rarer than matching 4 numbers and no stars, at 1 in 13,812. Fewer main numbers, longer odds. It's paid accordingly, taking 0.37% of the fund against 0.26%, which is exactly what the rarer outcome should get. The surprise isn't the prize — it's that three can be harder to hit than four.

It falls out of EuroMillions drawing from two separate pools. Your five main numbers come from fifty balls; your two Lucky Stars come from a completely different set of twelve. Because the star pool is so much smaller, hitting both stars is comparatively easy — but it's a condition layered on top of whatever the main numbers do. Combine "3 of 5 main numbers" with "both stars" and the joint probability lands, almost coincidentally, just below the probability of four main numbers on their own.

Any game with two independent pools produces these little inversions somewhere in the table. It's a quirk of the arithmetic rather than a design decision, and the only practical consequence is that "more main numbers" doesn't automatically mean "better prize".

The jackpot, rollovers and the €250 million cap

The advertised minimum jackpot is €17 million — a figure published by the Irish operator, lottery.ie. The UK Game Procedures don't name a floor, so treat it as sourced from Ireland, not Allwyn.

If nobody matches five numbers and both stars, the jackpot rolls over and keeps growing. Unlike Lotto, there's no small rollover limit — a run can go on for weeks.

What it can't do is grow forever. The jackpot is capped at €250 million. Once it reaches the cap it stays there, and any money that would have pushed it higher rolls down to the next prize tier with a winner. So during a capped run, whoever sits in that next tier down can collect eye-watering amounts.

The jackpot can sit at the cap for four consecutive rolls. If it's still unwon in that fourth rolling draw — the fifth successive draw at the cap — the entire jackpot fund rolls down to the next tier with at least one winner, and the run ends.

Allwyn and the EuroMillions Partners can change the cap at any time. It has been raised before, and the figure above is what applies at the time of checking, not a permanent feature of the game.

Super Draws

Occasionally the operators run a Super Draw with a hugely inflated starting jackpot. There are two kinds, and the difference matters. A Super Minimum Jackpot Guarantee behaves like a normal draw: if the jackpot isn't won, it rolls over. An Event Draw does not roll over — an unwon jackpot rolls down within that same draw to the next tier with a winner. Both types allocate 42% of the fund to the jackpot and 18% to the Reserve Fund.

UK Millionaire Maker

Every UK and Isle of Man EuroMillions ticket automatically gets a UK Millionaire Maker code — a string of letters and numbers. To win you must match the entire code, in exact order. There are no partial prizes. At least one £1,000,000 prize is guaranteed in every draw, and Allwyn can add more in a promotional "Super Raffle".

The odds are unusual in that they aren't fixed. Your chance of winning is one divided by the total number of entries in that draw, so it moves with how many tickets are sold. Busy draws are worse for you; quiet ones are better. The official illustrative figures show the range:

Tuesday base draw — 1 in 4.27 million
Friday base draw — 1 in 6.04 million
Tuesday, fourth rollover — 1 in 5.29 million
Friday, fourth rollover — 1 in 7.29 million

Fridays are busier than Tuesdays, and a big rollover pulls in more players still, which is why the odds worsen exactly when the jackpot is at its most tempting.

There are also occasional European Millionaire Maker draws, which award multiple €1 million prizes spread across all the participating countries. UK winners of those may have their prize topped up to £1 million.

Has EuroMillions changed recently?

No — there's been no format change in roughly three years. Allwyn took over the National Lottery licence on 1 February 2024, but the EuroMillions format, price and prize structure carried over unchanged.

Worth saying plainly, because 2026 has been busy for the National Lottery: the two-round overhaul of Lotto and the arrival of Powerball in the UK are separate games and separate changes. EuroMillions is not affected by either.

What the odds actually mean

1 in 139,838,160 is not a number anyone can feel, so here it is slowly. At two draws a week, a single line played every time would take on average something like 1.3 million years to hit the jackpot. Buying every combination at £2.50 a line would cost about £350 million — comfortably more than the capped jackpot.

The friendlier "1 in 13 chance of any prize" is true, but read it honestly. The tier doing most of the work is 2 main numbers at 1 in 22, which pays back your £2.50 exactly. The next one up pays around £3.60. Winning something and coming out ahead are different events, and most of the winning is the first kind.

None of which is an argument against playing. £2.50 for a couple of days of daydreaming is a fair trade if daydreaming is what you're buying. It stops being fair the moment it turns into a plan.

Nothing on this site changes any of it. A generator picks numbers; it cannot make them more likely to be drawn. In a fair draw every combination has exactly the same chance. There's more on the maths in how lottery odds are calculated.

Generating a EuroMillions line

EuroMillions is the default format here — five main numbers from 1–50 and two Lucky Stars from 1–12 is exactly what you get on the homepage when you press the button. There's an explicit EuroMillions preset under Options → Presets if you've changed the settings and want to get back.

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Prices, draw times, tiers and rules change, and the pari-mutuel amounts change every draw. Always confirm the current details with The National Lottery before you play. Lucky Dip is independent and not affiliated with Allwyn, The National Lottery or the EuroMillions Partners.