The largest amount in Joker’s history is being distributed today, with the jackpot reaching €26.5 million after 44 consecutive draws without a major winner. The first category was last won on 1 May, whilst from 4 May until today more than 115 million columns have been played.
The OPAP game began in 1997, with the previous winning record set on 10 April 2010, when €19.3 million was distributed.
Since December 2023, the winning categories have been upgraded: the first category starts from €1 million, the second pays €100,000 per winner, a new category with 2+Joker was added, whilst the column price increased from €0.50 to €1.
To become a first category winner, the correct prediction of 5 numbers from 45 and one Joker number from 20 is required, with odds of 1 in 24,435,180 for one column.
Smaller winning categories range from €100,000 for 5 numbers without Joker, down to €1 or €1.50 for the lowest combinations.
According to OPAP, the five most frequent numbers since 2000 are 34, 37, 31, 13 and 29, whilst the most frequent Joker numbers are 8 and 18.
The numbers that have been absent for the longest period are 4, 38, 37, 5 and 24, whilst among Joker numbers, 17 has been missing the most.
(information from CNA)
