EuroMillions odds for every prize: 5 from 50, 2 Lucky Stars from 12

All 13 EuroMillions prize tiers

Each tier below shows its share of the Common Prize Fund, the published odds and our exact figure for one line. The EuroMillions Game Procedures in force are Edition 24a, effective from 28 July 2025. The tiers are ranked by prize, which is why the odds do not fall in a neat line from top to bottom.

The published figures are rounded, mostly upwards, and match the exact counts once that is allowed for: Match 4 + 1 Lucky Star, for instance, works out at 1 in 31,075.15 and is printed as 1 in 31,076. The twelve lower tiers share 40.00% of the fund between them. With the jackpot's 50% and the 10% set aside for the reserve, the split adds up to exactly 100%.

Working out the odds: two machines

EuroMillions draws from two separate machines. Five main numbers come from 50, which can fall in 2,118,760 ways, and two Lucky Stars come from 12, which can fall in 66 ways. Because the machines are independent, every tier is a main-number chance multiplied by a star chance.

For the jackpot both parts are 1 in the total, so the odds are 2,118,760 × 66 = 1 in 139,838,160. The star half on its own is gentle: both stars right is 1 in 66, exactly one is 1 in 3.30, and neither is about 68% of all draws. Almost all the difficulty is in the main numbers.

That also explains the odd-looking order of the table. Match 4 with no stars is 1 in 13,811, a little more likely than Match 3 + 2 Lucky Stars at 1 in 14,125, yet it gets a smaller share of the fund. The lottery odds calculator reproduces every row and lets you add lines and draws.

The £2.50 price and the UK Millionaire Maker

A UK line costs £2.50, and the rules divide that into £1.74 for EuroMillions itself and 76p for the UK Millionaire Maker. The two are only sold together. Every line comes with a Millionaire Maker code of four letters and five numbers, and in each draw one code wins £1,000,000, with more winners in occasional Super Raffles.

Because exactly one code wins, the odds of the Millionaire Maker are simply one in the number of codes sold for that draw. The official approximations are:

Even on a busy Friday, one line is far more likely to win the £1 million raffle than the jackpot: a Tuesday code is about 33 times likelier. Occasional European Millionaire Maker draws also pay €1,000,000 prizes, which the operator may top up to £1,000,000.

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The jackpot, the cap and pari-mutuel prizes

Every EuroMillions prize, the jackpot included, is pari-mutuel. For each entry, €1.10 goes into a Common Prize Fund shared by all the participating countries, and each tier receives a fixed percentage of it. Everyone who matches that tier across Europe then splits its share equally. A tier with few winners pays well; a tier with many pays less. In the UK, the Allwyn prize fund is 50% of the EuroMillions entry price.

The jackpot takes 50% of the fund for the first five draws of a roll series and 42% from the sixth draw onwards, plus any rolled-over and reserve money. The reserve takes 10% for the first five draws and 18% after that. The jackpot is capped at €250 million. When it reaches the cap it can roll four more times, and any money above the cap passes down to the next tier with a winner. If the fifth draw at the cap is still not won, the jackpot rolls down to the next tier with at least one winner. Super Draws with a guaranteed minimum jackpot, and Event Draws, are run from time to time.

UK winners are paid in pounds at the exchange rate on the date of the draw, and every prize is rounded down to the nearest 10p. We could not confirm the date of the last change to the matrix or the price, so this page describes the rules as they stand, not their history.

What a year of EuroMillions looks like

One line in both weekly draws is 104 draws and £260.00. On average that year brings about 8 prizes, most of them Match 2 or Match 2 + 1 Lucky Star. Keep going for ten years and the chance of the jackpot reaches 0.00074%, or about 1 in 134,460. The Lotto odds page shows how the UK-only draw compares, and the UK lottery odds page puts every draw side by side.

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