EuroMillions frequently asked questions

For each line, choose 5 main numbers from 1 to 50 and 2 Lucky Stars from 1 to 12, or ask for a Lucky Dip. Pick Tuesday, Friday or both, and buy your ticket from The National Lottery website or app or from a National Lottery retailer before 7.30pm on the day of the draw. It's all explained in how to play EuroMillions.

Every Tuesday and Friday. The National Lottery gives 8.45pm (UK time) as the draw time, ticket sales close at 7.30pm and full results are on its website from around 9.30pm. More in draw time and place.

£2.50 a line, for each draw. That price covers two games that are always played together: EuroMillions (£1.74) and the UK Millionaire Maker (76p).

A game that comes with every EuroMillions line bought in the UK. Each line gets a code of four letters and five numbers, and one code wins £1 million in every draw, without matching a single number. See UK Millionaire Maker.

A UK game played on the EuroMillions main numbers: choose 1 to 5 numbers and match them all to win. It costs £1.50 a line, and Pick 5 pays £1 million. More in UK Millionaire Maker and HotPicks.

Thirteen. The jackpot needs 5 main numbers and 2 Lucky Stars; the lowest tier pays a cash prize, estimated at £2.50, for matching just 2 main numbers. Prizes vary from draw to draw: see EuroMillions prizes.

It rolls over to the next draw and keeps growing from its €17 million start until someone wins it, up to a cap of €250 million. At the cap it can roll four more times; if nobody wins it in the fifth draw at the cap, it rolls down to the next tier with a winner. More in the EuroMillions jackpot.

A draw where the jackpot is boosted to a guaranteed amount from the EuroMillions reserve fund. If nobody wins it, it rolls over as usual. See the EuroMillions jackpot.

Yes, for UK winners. The jackpot is set in euros and converted into pounds at the exchange rate on the day of the draw, which is why the amount in pounds is always an estimate beforehand.

1 in 139,838,160 for the jackpot with one line, and about 1 in 13 for any prize. The odds for all 13 tiers are in EuroMillions odds.

It depends on where you played and how much you've won. Any National Lottery retailer pays up to £100 and some pay up to £500; online, prizes up to £500 go straight into your account. Bigger prizes are claimed online or by phone, and anything over £50,000 is claimed in person. See how to claim a EuroMillions prize.

180 days from the draw. After that the prize is forfeited and the money goes to National Lottery good causes.

No. Lottery prizes aren't taxed in the UK, so you receive the full amount, paid as a lump sum. Any interest or income you earn from the money afterwards is taxed in the usual way.

No. Whether you have any publicity is entirely up to you, and many of the UK's biggest EuroMillions winners have stayed anonymous.

Tell Allwyn in writing straight away, by post to Winner Services at The National Lottery, PO Box 287, Watford, WD18 9TT, or by email to [email protected]. Your notice must arrive by 5pm on the 30th day after the draw. The details are in the EuroMillions ticket.

We publish the EuroMillions results from official sources as soon as the draw is made public, and the prize breakdown once all the winners have been counted. This is an independent website, not The National Lottery, so always check a win against your ticket and with The National Lottery or a National Lottery retailer before you treat it as certain.

No. The numbers you enter in the ticket checker are only used to show you the result of that check and aren't linked to you. You can read more in our privacy policy.

The number generator looks at up to 200 recent EuroMillions draws and suggests lines based on hot numbers, cold numbers or completely at random, with options such as a balanced mix of odd and even numbers. It doesn't predict the draw: every combination has exactly the same chance of winning.

Yes. Our results page has past draws with their winning numbers, UK Millionaire Maker code and prize breakdown, and in the ticket checker you can choose a date or a date range to check several draws at once. Remember that prizes have to be claimed within 180 days.