“It is quite rare that the ceiling amount is reached and won in Euromillions. So it is even rarer than it happens twice, moreover is 3 months apart! One thing is certain, 2025 is a record year for the Euromillions draw game – My Million“, could be read on the FDJ website on June 19, two days after a player’s victory in Ireland winning 250 million euros. And two months later, the ceiling amount is again reached, for the 3rd time in 6 months.
This Tuesday, August 19, Euromillion players will be able to try to win the biggest gaming gain since Friday August 15, 2025, the sum of 234 million did not be a happy winner. The prize pool increasing as long as there is no big winner, it reaches to date the maximum amount it can reach. But why this ceiling at 250 million euros, and what becomes of the jackpot when not won?
The ceiling blocked at 250 million euros since 2023
In 2020, a mechanism had been put in place: the ceiling increased gradually by stages of 10 million euros each time a record was reached, until it is now reaching the maximum set at 250 million euros. Between 2021 and 2023, the ceiling regularly crossed the various levels – 200 million, 210 million, 220 million, 230 million, then 240 million – to reach its current level of 250 million. In December 2023, the gain of 240 million euros won by an Austrian player had thus made it possible to unlock the last level of the Euromillions ceiling and to be able to reach 250 million euros, explains the drawing site.
This ceiling amount that a player can pocket in a single draw is set by a regulation involving all the participating countries. This sum can only be brought into play during four consecutive prints. If it is not won by any player during the fifth draw, it is automatically paid to the lower ranks, (five numbers and a star, and so on). Once this cycle is finished, the kitty is reset to 17 million euros.
The amount is not intended to be increased. “”These are heavy modifications, which imply the consent of all countries, Recently explained Nicolas Robineau, co-founder of the drawing-Gagnant site, in Acti.fr. Some are liberal, and therefore favorable, like the United Kingdom, others are more conservative like Austria“. The expert continues that the Anj (National Games Authority) would need to be able to modify the regulations.
For the time being, 250 million euros are therefore at stake this Tuesday, August 19, this draw is among the most anticipated in the history of Euromillions. If this jackpot were to be won, it would be the 3rd time six months.