Official veikkaus results – finland lotto winning numbers

History of The Veikkaus Lotto

Finland has a long lottery history and in fact, the first lotteries were already being organized in the 1940s. The Finnish government licensed the games, regulating the way people play and win. Known also as Veikkaus Lotto, the Finland Lotto was launched in 1970 with the first draw taking place on January 3rd 1971. The Lotto game’s popularity soon spread and this Finland Lottery 7/39 is a traditional jackpot and today, it’s the flagship game offered by Oy Veikkaus Ab. History tells us that the biggest jackpot won so far was in 2004 when a cool 5.7 million euro was won by a family who matched all the numbers when Finland lotto results were announced.

Joker

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You can also enter the Joker draw for an additional 20 kr per line. It can be played alongside the main Norway Lotto and Vikinglotto draws, or it can be played as a standalone game.

You are assigned five random numbers, and you must match two, three, four or five numbers in the exact order they are drawn to win a prize. The more numbers you match, the bigger the prizes.

One player in each draw is randomly chosen as the ‘Joker Candidate’ and is awarded a prize, with the opportunity to play another game to increase their winnings. Norsk Tipping contacts the Joker Candidate directly to play this additional game.

SuperLotto

SuperLotto is a special draw that takes place at certain points throughout the year, with an estimated prize pool of 50 million kr. Every player who buys a line for the normal Lotto draw is entered into the next SuperLotto; the more lines you buy, the more entries you receive. There is no additional cost to play SuperLotto.

The SuperLotto takes the form of a raffle and every winning entry that is drawn wins 1 million kr. For example, if there is 50 million kr in the prize pool, 50 winning entries will be drawn; if there’s 45 million kr in the prize pool, 45 winners will be drawn, and so on.

A portion of the ticket revenue from every Lotto draw funds the prizes for the next SuperLotto.

System Games and Cooperative Banks

System games allow you to cover a large range of lottery numbers. To play a system, choose eight or more numbers. Every possible combination of those numbers will then be entered as a separate line in the Lotto draw. For example, if you were to play a system with eight numbers, you would enter eight lines into the draw, as there are eight separate combinations of those numbers:

The more numbers you choose in your system, the more lines you would enter, but the cost would also increase. A system where you chose 12 numbers would generate 792 separate lines and would cost 3960 kr.

Cooperative Banks work in a similar way, except that you split the cost with other players. Any prizes won are then divided equally among the members of the group. Cooperative Banks offer a great way of covering a lot of numbers without having to pay too much more to play.

Interesting Fact

The first Lotto draw took place on 19th April 1986. Players had to pick seven numbers between 1 and 34, and two bonus numbers were also drawn at random. The jackpot available then was €52,281 (500,000 kr) for matching all seven main numbers.

The lottery’s first ever millionaire was a woman from Harstad who won €143,024 (1.3 million kr) in the lottery’s inaugural year. The ticket holder played a system game, matching the seven main numbers and an additional bonus number. She won seven other prizes as well as the jackpot amount, totalling 1.3 million kr.

Prizes

Lottery prizes are drawn on a sweepstakes basis, therefore, their size depends on the number of tickets sold and the number of winners at each level. Each prize tier is credited with a percentage of ticket revenues, and the amount, which you can win, changes with every draw. The prize for matching four numbers is fixed and is 50 crown. Money, to be paid to the winners, are deducted from the prize pool before the remaining funds are distributed among the players.

10,9% from the prize fund goes to the accumulation pool, which is used to pay the winners of the raffle lottery. A raffle draw is held immediately after the main Demark Lotto draw, as a result of which two winners with winnings are guaranteed 1 million crowns (134 000 euros). Every raffle draw automatically participates in the raffle draw, in which two winning tickets are drawn at random.