Talk:Eurojackpot

Is not a thousands separator a fixed space according to ISO-Standard?

Hi there - I think the page on EuroJackpot needs to be updated - to start with a number of new countries are beginning to participate as from February 1st 2013. The Croatian State Lottery (Hrvatska Lutrija) has just announced that it will start selling EuroJackpot tickets in its shops and via authorised agents in Croatia from 8am on Saturday January 26th for the draw on February 1st. I believe there are number of other countries joining in as well on the same date but I am unable do double check that. Info on Croatia joining the EuroJackpot can be verified on lutrija.hr - state lottery's website. Another point of possible interest is that EJ tickets in Croatia will not be on sale via Internet - apparently Hrvatska Lutrija has not finished all it needs to do before releasing the online version of the EuroJackpot tickets. So in the beginning the only way to buy them will be for cash in HL stores and its authorised agents' shops.

I'm not taking down the notability box because I created this page. I think something is quite notable, if 20 big companies from 8 countries engage in a common project, even if it fails. I think that YLE is a reliable source and that its understandable, that the English speaking media isn't really mentioning it as none of the participating countries is English speaking and the two English speaking countries are members of the other big European lottery. Jarmo Gombos (talk) 13:07, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

This page is very suspicious. Is it referring to a commercially run lottery or a state lottery? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.140.20 (talk) 20:44, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean by "suspicious"? It will be a commercial lottery run by state (owned) lotteries. Jarmo Gombos (talk) 06:15, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Actually ownership is irrelevant in several countries. Game operator rights are not; all of the companies involved have these rights, and as far as I can tell, these are monopoly rights given by state governments. This is very similar to operation of Euro Millions and Viking Lotto transnational lotteries. 89.27.111.143 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:13, 18 March 2012 (UTC).

Why external links to shady sites are persistently maintained? www.eurojackpot-lotto.net is thinly veiled affiliate site forwarding readers to play the game through TheLotter, which is truly a suspicious business body to support - it (supposedly) resells lottery tickets to players overseas, which is on practically all mentionable games and jurisdictions, to put it nicely, "legally problematic." These sites maintain semi-official look, but never link to licensed lottery organizers, but instead to TheLotter site with their affiliate code attached. Without going to specifics of legality of this business, it can be stated that most English-language sites advertising lotteries in non-English language countries are affiliates of this company. On Euromillions Wikipedia page, only external links provided are the licensed organizers of the game. Shouldn't it be so here, too? Sites described above don't carry official information - they have essentially scraped their information from official sites, with a slant favoring their own business model. 89.27.111.143 (talk)

With reference to TheLotter, I noticed that the resale value of the tickets are €5 as opposed to the retail value of €2.46.7.85.68 (talk) 13:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Eurojackpot is new and authentic but all the web site links are not to official sites but suspicious resellers, each english version is poorly written and clearly attempt to scam the visitor into thinking that they are a legal reseller. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.135.250 (talk) 22:33, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20130202001459/http://puaro.lv:80/lv/tiesiskums-un-kriminallietas-raksti/kadam-laimigam-latvietim-ir-iespeja-balva-sanemt-10-miljonus-eiro-1 to http://www.puaro.lv/lv/tiesiskums-un-kriminallietas-raksti/kadam-laimigam-latvietim-ir-iespeja-balva-sanemt-10-miljonus-eiro-1
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20110609015923/http://www.iltasanomat.fi:80/kotimaa/huhhuh-suomalaiset-paasevat-lottoamaan-jopa-90-miljoonasta-eurosta/art-1288394111249.html to http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/huhhuh-suomalaiset-paasevat-lottoamaan-jopa-90-miljoonasta-eurosta/art-1288394111249.html

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Notable wins
Notable wins list has now over 70 entries. In what sense are all of those notable? I think that list just adds clutter to the article and should be chopped down. Perhaps to 10 entries or something similar. 185.38.2.2 (talk) 14:54, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

A:B Notation
In maths the notation A:B is different from A/B. If you use them to describe likelihoods, A in both notations stands for the "favourable" events or outcomes. That does not mean that it always must be positive. "Favourable" just stands for the events or outcomes you are looking at. However while B in A/B stands for ALL outcomes, in A:B it stands just for the "unfavourable" outcomes, which is the same as A/(B-A) in the notation with the slash. So 1/5 is the same as 1:4. If you are talking about a "fifty-fifty-chance", you mean 50:50 and not 50/50. 50:50 is 50%, while 50/50 is 100% and the same as 50:0. If you think that is confusing, you should just look at a sports game. There the same notation is used. 7:4 means that the home team has scored 7 points, while 4 points were scored against the home team. The A:B notation makes it easy to see if more favourable or unfavourable events occurred. In sports that means which side is leading. In the "/" notation you would have to write 7:4 as 7/11, which would be quite confusing. I would mean that of all 11 points of the match, 7 were scored by the home team. In lotteries the "/" notation would make more sense than the ":" notation, as it is already clear that the number of unfavourable outcomes (not winning) is much higher than the number of favourable outcomes (winning). However when using the ":" notation, it should be done correctly, even if the lottery companies themselves use it incorrectly on their own websites. So when I added the new odds for Eurojackpot from March 25, 2022 on, I also corrected that mistake on all the old odds. That's why 1:9344200 now is 1:95344199 for example. That really is the correct way. Just think about the 50:50 example.Bimmelbammel (talk) 09:30, 9 March 2022 (UTC)