National Lottery (Ireland) their five main EuroMillions numbers in an additional draw for a fixed, non-rolling prize of €500,000. Players can also win fixed prizes of €2,000 for a match-4 and €20 for a match-3. The first Plus drawing was held on 15 June 2007. 76 percent of EuroMillions players now play Plus. Sales of Plus were €44.6 million in 2012, an increase of 3.7 percent over the previous year. In September 2012, the National Lottery introduced Daily Million to replace both Monday Million (a draw game with prizes up to €1 million, held once weekly on Monday nights) and All Or Nothing
Lottery machine Lottery machine A lottery machine is the machine used to draw the winning numbers for a lottery. Early lotteries were done by drawing numbers, or winning tickets, from a container. In the UK, numbers of winning Premium Bonds (which were not strictly a lottery, but very similar in approach) were generated by an electronic machine called ERNIE. Common lottery machines consist of balls with numbers printed on them, which are then mixed in the central chamber, and then drawn one at a time. Such machines are transparent so the balls are visible throughout the entire process instead of disappearing inside