The Euromillions draw is held regularly every week of the year, including holidays such as Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Euromillions is held every Tuesday and Friday between 20.45h and 21.15h (CET) in Paris.
Where is the Euromillions draw held?
The draws to determine the winners will be held on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week in Paris. However, the lottery operators of the countries that commercialize Euromillions are the ones who will determine the place, day and hour in which they should be celebrated.
When is the Euromillions draw held?
The draw is held regularly every Tuesday and Friday of the year. It is usually held between 20.45h and 21.15h approximately (Central European Time), but the schedule may vary, being the organizers of the draw who determine the optimal time to do it.
How is the Euromillions draw performed?
The drawings will be carried out as follows:
- As many balls of the same material and weight will be introduced into two drums, numbered sequentially, as many boxes as there are in the matrices of the ticket block defined in the ticket (currently 50).
- By random drawing, five balls or “numbers”, draw A, will be drawn from a first drum and two balls or “stars”, draw B, from a second drum. This set of 5 + 2 numbers forms the winning combination.
- The result of the draw will be supervised in Spain by an auditor or notary public. Also, at the place where the draw is held, a person will be present to certify that the draw is carried out in accordance with the established procedures.
What happens after the draw
Once the draw is concluded, the scrutiny of all the participating validated bets will begin, in order to assign the prizes corresponding to each one, by coincidence between the winning combination and the predictions that appear in the validated bets in all the participating countries. Only one prize per bet can be received.
The prizes will be paid from the first business day following the last drawing in which the bets have participated.
Deadline to collect the prize
The right to claim prizes shall lapse after three months, counted from date to date, from the day following the date of the last draw in which the bets were placed.
Notwithstanding the above, the period of expiry of the right to collect the prizes will be interrupted from the date of receipt of a prize claim by the regulatory body, until the date on which the regulatory body has communicated its decision to the claimant or, where applicable, until the notification of the resolution by the Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling or the body which at any given time is entrusted with the exercise of the administrative powers provided for in Law 13/2011, of 27 May, on the regulation of gambling.
