Veikkaus – Finland Lottery

EuroJackpot € 18,000,000 Viking Lotto € 8,100,000 Veikkaus Lotto € 10,000,000

Lotto Finland – Veikkausfi

The first ideas of promoting gambling in Finland date back as far as 1919 when the sport of Horse Racing commenced in the country. Suomen Kuninkuusravit – Royalties of Finland – was founded in 1924 & the first Toto game took place on February 5th 1928.

Harsh ecconomic times led to the decline in horse racing in the 1930s however and it wasn't until the Slot Machine Association (RAY) was founded April 1st 1938 that gambling in Finland resumed. Proceeds raised by the Slot Machine Association were to go towards the funding of public health throughout Finland.

Encouraged by the success enjoyed by gaming in Sweden at the time, the company Oy Tippaustoimisto AB was formed in 1940 by the Finnish Worker's Sports Federation, the Finnish Football Association and the Finnish Sports Federation. The first games were offered in September 1940 and invloved betting on athletics events between Finland, Sweden & Germany plus baseball & football games. Profits were raised for sports & physical education.

Slot machine gaming became more widespread throughout the 1940s & in the 1950s Oy Tippaustoimisto AB became known as Oy Veikkaustoimisto AB, with betting proceeds going towards helping to raise funds for the Finland Olympic games in 1952.

Also in the 1950s, profits from betting games began to be used for science, art & youth education in addition to sporting endeavours. The first Veikkaus TV commercial was then broadcast in 1958.

In 1965 a Finland Lottery law was passed and eventually the very first drawing of the Veikkaus Lotto – Finland Lotto – took place on January 3rd 1971 and the very first FIM 1 MILLION win in 1973.

In 1975 the Finnish government became the sole proprietor of Oy Veikkaustoimisto AB and the company's name was then changed to Oy Veikkaus AB. During the latter half of the 1970s the Jokeri (Joker) was added as an option to play with the Veikkaus Lotto.

Veikkaus introduced new scratchcard games in the 1980s & the first Gaming Hall, Täyspotti, was opened in Jyväskylä in 1989.

The Slot Machine Association (RAY) opened it first casino in 1991 and talks commenced in 1992 between Oy Veikkaus AB, Norway's Norsk Tipping, Tipstjänst Ab (now Svenska Spel) of Sweden, Dansk Tipstjeneste (now Danske Spil) of Denmark and Íslensk Getspá of the Iceland Lottery to start a new Wednesday Lotto.

As a result of these discussions, the Viking Lotto was launched on March 14th 1993 as the world's very first multi national lottery.

Veikkaus launched its website – veikkausfi – in 1995 as electronic gambling took off and became instantly popular across Finland.

January 1st 2001 saw Fintoto established as a company to operate horse race betting games and TOTO across the country.

KENO was launched as the first daily Finnish Lotto in 2002 and quickly became the 2nd most popular game in the Finland Lottery portfolio after the Veikkaus Lotto itself. The name  of the company Oy Veikkaus AB was then changed to Veikkaus Oy in 2004.

Following an agreement signed between Finland, Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Slovenia & Estonia in 2011, a new multi national lottery – the EuroJackpot – was launched on March 17th 2012 which expanded the Veikkaus portfolio further. 

On January 1st 2017 the 3 principal gaming companies in Finland – Veikkaus, Fintoto plus the Finland Slot Machine Association (RAY) were merged with the new company retaining the name Veikkaus. The company is still owned by the Finnish state.

If you are familiar with Finland Lottery games that are offered by Veikkaus you will know that there are a great selection of Finnish Lotto games that are produced by Veikkausfi & Lotto Finland.

Some of these Finnish Lotto games can be played not only throughout Finland but right across Scandinavia and due to the presence of authorized, online lottery ticket agencies such as TheLotter and MultiLotto, anyone from around the world is now able to buy lottery tickets online wherever they may be living.

We have written in great detail about each Veikkaus game that is available from the Finnish Lotto that you are able to play lottery online with – just visit our World Lotteries page for a complete list of national lottery games and their individual pages of review.

Here we are simply going to list the primary Finnish Lotto games that are available from Lotto Veikkaus and you can click straight through to read more about the your personal favourite – there are 3 main games from Veikkaus Lotto fi that you can choose from...

Veikkaus Lotto  – Viking Lotto – EuroJackpot

EuroJackpot – Finland Lottery – Veikkaus

First launched on March 17th 2012 the EuroJackpot became the 2nd multi national lottery to be offered across Europe as a rival to the EuroMillions.

Initially 7 countries were a part of the Euro Jackpot consortium of European countries to offer the game – these were Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy, Germany and Estonia.

Spain was the next to join in June 2012 & then Sweden, Croatia Norway, Iceland, Lithuania & Latvia joined on February 1st 2013.

The Czech Republic and Hungary both then became members of the EuroJackpot on October 10th 2014 with Slovakia joining on October 9th 2015 and then Poland following in September 2017.

This brought the the total membership of the EuroJackpot bloc of countries up to its current level of 18 countries all across Europe.

With an audience spanning this many European countries that gives the EuroJackpot lottery an even broader reach and customer base than its longer serving cousin, the EuroMillions.

EuroJackpot is played with a double matrix of 5/50 + 2/10 which means that you first need to choose 5 numbers out of a number range from 1 to 50 and then pick 2 Euro Numbers from 1 to 10.

If you correctly match all 5 of the main EuroJackpot numbers plus the 2 Euro Numbers, then you will win the Euro Jackpot top prize.

The Euro Jackpot top prize starts off at € 10 MILLION and will rollover each week for every draw where a winner has not been produced right up to a maximum amount of a huge € 90 MILLION!

This maximum Euro Jackpot win achievable of € 90 MILLION has been won on numerous occasions now and by various nations. 

The biggest Veikkaus EuroJackpot win so far has been a massive € 90 MILLION that was won on August 23rd 2019 by a syndicate who got a ticket at a supermarket in Siilinjärvi, Northern Savonia.

This win along with another € 90 MILLION that was won playing on the Veikkaus EuroJackot by another syndicate, this time from Loimaa, south west Finland on February 9th 2018, are the 2 biggest lottery wins in the history of Veikkaus & the Finnish Lotto.

There are a total of 12 different ways you are able to win on the Euro Jackpot from the top prize right down to correctly matching just 1 of the main winning numbers plus the 2 Euro Numbers.

Your odds of winning a EuroJackpot top prize are 1 in 95,344,200.

The EuroJackpot is draw is conducted once every week on a Friday and this takes place at 9.00pm from Helsinki in Finland.

Read much more about the EuroJackpot by clicking the link above and play EuroJackpot any time using the banner below…