Why is Europe Euromillions & the world so Behind the USA

Reply #14

CARBOB — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:14:56 GMT

Ricky, I know you are jesting!! I drove on some very, very nice roads ,(autobahns) in Germany, in the early 70's. Also some very nice roads throughout Europe.

Reply #13

paurths — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:29:55 GMT

Believe me, people don't have to drive far to be able to buy a ticket.

You make it sound like people need to take a vacation to be able to get a hold of a ticket.

But you're right, there are only like 36 retailers for the 9 countries that do Euromillions... makes only 4 per country

The price of gas in Europe, approx. $4.8 per gallon.

And ofcourse we are still on the brink of discovering the construction of roads.

Reply #12

paurths — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:21:37 GMT

If i am still up to date, euromillions can be played in the following countries:France, England, Spain, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switserland, Portugal, Ireland and Austria.

You are taking even Russia into account.

Why stop there?

Why not involve the USA in your calculations? lol

Reply #11

MillionsWanted — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:50:15 GMT

That's correct. As far as I know, there's no taxes on government run lotteries in Europe. 50% of the money spent on lottery tickets still go back to the players as prize money.

Reply #10

dvdiva — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:24:24 GMT

Behind? With Euromillions if the jackpot is $100 million in Euros you get a check for that amount. The full amount. In the US you will soon be lucky to get 20% of the jackpot. Who's really behind

Reply #9

pumpi76 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:35:29 GMT

and i am willing to make an observation even though don't know if it will hold true...But i am willing to bet that the regions/provinces/states where the is more roads there will be more winners....Population size might not do it but road count might...

Reply #8

pumpi76 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:27:16 GMT

you know what i think the answer is: RETAILERS...Europe doesn't have enough retailers as the USA plus if you look at the map Europe or western europe is more to northern latitudes where is colder if you look at the map europe looks like is in equal with Canada and not the USA...

not only that but i think there are more cars in the USA than in Europe but i could be wrong...

so people in Europe think twice whether to go in the cold and drive a good distance for a ticket...If Retailers in Eur... [ More ]

Reply #7

pumpi76 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:11:17 GMT

Damn!!!

If they want to make more people play they will have to increase the jackpot...

The only alternative left is to raise the matrix...

Europe you need to raise the matrix to 60....I think that's the only way it will increase to 200 million dollars...

Europe is starting to remind me of Utah...

i don't understand if people are so concern with the lottery been to gamblish they why don't they put caps on the tickets, caps like the maximum a person can spend is 10 dollars...or stu... [ More ]

Reply #6

paurths — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:40:40 GMT

The price is not $1.5

They already charge $2.5 per ticket (per combination of 5 + 2

Reply #5

savagegoose — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:33:46 GMT

euro isworth more and the prize is a lump sum and tax free i think

Reply #4

Newb — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:42:27 GMT

By coincidence there's a 85million Euromillions superdraw this week.

But at 1.50 per ticket and little or no prospect of winning anything, I dont think that many people can be bothered to play. Sometimes I may play it once a year and buy a couple of tickets but no amount of money will force me to play again.

Reply #3

ambelamba — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:18:57 GMT

Africa as a continent has no infrastructure to support a lottery system (ie: telco to transmit ticket info across the countries) and many regions in Africa are very unstable.

In case of Asia, the level of economy is so different by nations. And doing a multi-nation lottery in Asia will cause a great headache. (disputes over sharing the profits, protecting the identity of the winners and stuff

Reply #2

MillionsWanted — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:24:07 GMT

Probably because there isn't market for more (frequent) lotteries. Many european countries participate in a multi country lottery and also got one or several national lotteries. Usually the national lottery is being drawn on saturdays while the multi country lotteries (Euromillions and VikingLotto) are drawn on ordinary weekdays. The jackpot doesn't get so high since there's not a lot of powerty in Europe and people doesn't feel the need to gamble to raise some extra cash. When we got a national... [ More ]

Reply #1

MaddMike51 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:45:32 GMT

People in Europe might quit playing the lottery if you doubled or tripled the price of a ticket.

Why is Europe Euromillions & the world so Behind the USA

pumpi76 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:11:04 GMT

There is something i don't understand can someone explain this to me...Why is Euromillions played once a week, for crying out loud is a multi-country game...What people in Europe don't play lottery is it like a taboo over there? I think the population of Europe is larger than the USA and even if it wasn't it should still be bigger than the USA because there is more population in lots of European countries than in some US states...Not only that but i think it cost 1 dollar and 50 cents for the Eu... [ More ]