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The Euro Millions or Euro lotto, as it is often known, is a pan-European lottery game that is played in nine participating member countries. At first this lotto game was set up by the national lotteries of the United Kingdom, France and Spain but Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland also joined towards the end of 2004.

The Euro Millions offers very large tax-free, lump sum jackpots on a weekly basis. The reason for these substantial jackpots is due to the fact that the prize fund is made up from a percentage of ticket sales from across all 9 member countries.

To take part in the Euro lotto draw you must select 5 main numbers from 1 to 50 and 2 "Lucky Star" numbers from 1 to 9. As the draw takes place, 5 main and 2 lucky star numbers are then selected at random from two draw machines containing numbered balls.

From a lottery player’s perspective the odds of scooping the top prize are not that inviting at 1 in 76 million but this in no way dampens the enthusiasm that this game generates right across Europe. There are many weeks where no ticket matches all the drawn numbers and as a result the jackpot is rolled forward to the following week increasing in size as it does so. These rollover jackpots can often reach €30-50 million and have in some cases climbed above the €100 million barrier. As you can probably imagine when these rollovers do occur they only add to the excitement of this draw boosting ticket sales along the way.

A regular EuroMillions ticket costs €2.00 which is the uniform fee across the majority of member nations. In the UK, the fee is supposed to be the equivalent in pounds Sterling but it has been fixed at £1.50 since the launch of EuroMillions in 2004. In Switzerland the fee is also meant to be the equivalent in Swiss francs but here too it has remained the same price of 3.20 CHF since the draw began.

To play the Euro Millions you usually have to buy your ticket from a lottery retailer in one of the nine participating European countries. However, the introduction of web-based lottery ticket sales agents now allows any individual from around the world to purchase their desired quantity of Euro lotto tickets. You do have to pay a hefty premium buying tickets in this way but at least it gives you access to this very exciting and potentially lucrative draw.

The lottery is a game of luck with the possibility of winning very unlikely. In the UK lottery for example, the odds of winning the jackpot by selecting all 6 drawn numbers are 1 in 14 million. If you are playing the Euro Millions the odds are even more distant at 76 million to 1. So is it really possible to give your odds a boost?

If you do a search online you will find masses of websites offering you information on how to increase your chances of winning the lotto; these methods range from the unrealistic to the believable and most will cost you quite a few lottery tickets to find out if they will work. You will see software programs that hold databases of all the lotto number machines and ball sets used in each draw that statistically analyse the frequency of each number appearing in a lottery draw. These programs then spit out sets of numbers that have produced the best results in past lottery draws.

There is another bunch of products that will happily accept your cash in return for their writers’ own system of selecting winning numbers for which they will show proof of their lottery winning results. Some will sell you their set of numbers which they declare have won frequently over many months or years. And if you are truly desperate to win the lottery you could even pay to have good luck spells cast for you by modern witchcraft practitioners; or buy charms that vow to affect the result of the lotto draws in your favour.

But are there any genuine ways in which to boost your lottery winning chances?

The answer is yes; playing as a member of a lottery syndicate is probably the best way of boosting your odds. As a syndicate member you pool all your entry fees to purchase a larger number of tickets in your preferred lotto game. This of course gives you and your syndicate members a much greater chance of winning cash prizes. Naturally the downside of joining a lottery syndicate is that you have to distribute all winnings with every other syndicate member. It also makes sense to build your syndicate membership with people that you know well and above all trust; but only you can make this decision.

If you want total peace of mind, have a good look at the eLottery syndicate system. e-Lottery gives players of the UK lotto and Euro Millions a considerable advantage due to the way in which the syndicates have been designed. If you elect to play the UK lottery, your syndicate plays with one number guaranteed in every draw; this equates to a 733% advantage that your syndicate holds over the ticket buying community. If you opt to play the Euromillions lottery, both “Lucky Star” numbers are guaranteed in every draw meaning that your syndicate plays with an even greater 3600% advantage over the entire ticket buying public.

Whichever way you view it the lottery is a risk and the odds are stacked against you but you can reduce those odds by working with others in a well managed lotto syndicate.