A Euromillions Winner from Portugal!

Written By Manuel Poças

The lucky winner from last week’s euromillions’ draw bought his ticket in Algés on the western side of Lisbon. 

Euromillions is Europe’s largest rolling-jackpot lottery game and requires seven correct numbers consisting of five main numbers (from 1 to 50) and two lucky star numbers (from 1 to 12) to win the jackpot.

There are two draws per week – one on Tuesday and one on Friday. Last week, a Portuguese player won the top prize of the week’s second draw. However, there was another winner in France, so the two winner will have to split the pot of  As the odds of someone winning the jackpot are 1 in 139,838,160, the fact that there were two winners is astonishing.

With the top jackpot prize of 53 million euros for the draw in question, each winner will take home 26.5 million euros. However, for the Portuguese winner, national law mandates that prizes greater than 5,000 euros are subject to a tax rate of 20%. The Portuguese state will receive just over 5.2 million euros from this grand prize draw, and the Algés winner will take home just under 21 million euros. 

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