Powerball
In fact, Powerball is not much different from Mega Millions. Here you need to choose five main numbers from 1 to 69 and an extra powerball ball from 1 to 26. The Powerball jackpot is currently 60 million dollars. To rip it off, you need to guess all five numbers and an extra powerball. But even if you don't guess it, you will be able to win one of the eight secondary prizes.
Like Mega Millions, Powerball has a multiplier, which is called powerplay here. It allows you to increase the secondary prizes from two to five times and win the second prize up to two million dollars.
Among the lottery winners, who bought a ticket using the Golotter service, there are three dollar millionaires, hitting a jackpot of one million dollars each: participant from El Salvador, who won the second million dollar prize, user from Canada and player from Australia.
Draws take place in Orlando every Wednesday and Saturday at 23:00 by local time (7:00 in Moscow).
How it works
Likely, you have a question: “How can I be sure, that I will be paid if I win?»When you place an order, your account receives an automatic confirmation that, that the purchased ticket belongs to you. A ticket purchased by a Golotter service employee will be scanned and uploaded to your account, which will confirm the presence of the original form. By the way, in the terms of use of the Golotter service it is clearly indicated, what's the payoff on 100 % belongs to the buyer, that is, without any commission. The only thing, what will you need to do, Is to pay tax on winnings in that country, where was the ticket purchased. For Mega Millions, these are state and federal taxes..
If you win any lottery, whose ticket was purchased through the Golotter service, then on your phone, as well as email notifications. Secondary prizes are automatically transferred to your account after the publication of the results of the draw, and big wins and jackpots are available in the USA. To do this, the lottery organizers will pay you a trip to the States, where the prize check will be handed over.
On the website of the Golotter service you will find other well-known lotteries, among which there are those, where the jackpot exceeds 10 million dollars. To start playing the lottery, register on the Golotter service website, choose the game option, lottery, numbers and buy a ticket. By the way about the game options. Beyond the standard lottery (fill in the field, you win, take the whole amount), it is possible to choose a game in the syndicate. This is when you play in a group and pay less for more fields. In this case, the prize is divided among all group members in accordance with the fields they purchased..
There are also combo deliveries, which contain individual tickets and shares in the syndicate's years, which allows you to multiply the chances of winning as a member of the syndicate. So, eg, third of the jackpot in 656 million dollars of the Mega Millions lottery was thwarted by the so-called Three Amigos - three members of one of the most famous lottery syndicates.
How to raise a billion
Why then activate the principle that actually prohibits the drawing of the jackpot? And even before the announcement of the upcoming New Year's draw? After all, after the announcement of such a generous prize and, after him, advertising campaign players will start buying tickets for the 1264th draw, hoping (dreaming) win a billion ...
The explanation in this case is simple: organizer, using the prohibitive opportunity, wants to collect the maximum jackpot amount before the upcoming New Year's draw. Because for the remaining draws before the New Year, the super prize accumulated now, no one can win.
Many years ago, when the lottery "Russian Lotto" has not yet taken a monopoly-leading position, it was decided to inform players (based on the results of each draw!) about the amount of the accumulated jackpot, and the concept of a "guaranteed" super prize did not exist at all.
What is the size of the accumulated jackpot now?? This information is not published now, it can only be calculated by yourself, based on data on past runs. Meanwhile, as of 05 November, the accumulated jackpot amount is about 155 million rubles. At the same time, the "guaranteed jackpot" declared by the organizer is almost twice as much.
Jackpots "Russian Lotto" and "Housing Lottery", announced before the end of November - until 300 million in each game
For the remaining (to the 1264th circulation) the organizer will be able to postpone eight draws in the piggy bank more 100-300 million, the total level of the accumulated prize will thus reach 300-450 million. But not a billion. What happens next?
What rules you need to know
To participate in the lottery, it is enough to purchase a ticket or
receive it as a gift from friends or relatives. However, the rules say, what to participate
only older people can participate in the lottery 18 years. Since last year, sellers in trade
points even got the right to demand a passport from the ticket buyer.
To claim a win, you need to apply on the page
winning ticket. Winnings over 10 million rubles are paid
only in Moscow at the Stoloto lottery center with a personal visit. At the time of buying
paper ticket you must keep the receipt. An examination is carried out first
ticket, money is transferred within 180 days.
Winnings are taxable 13%. If the participant won less
15 thousand rubles, he will need to pay the tax himself, by contacting
tax authority. If the winning is greater than or equal to the amount 15 thousand rubles, tax
automatically withheld upon payment, responsibility for this procedure is vested in
on organizers.
The rights of lottery winners are protected by the Law on Lotteries, in
which contains mandatory provisions for operators. for example, winner
of the drawing must receive his entire prize within six months. Besides
of this, the size of the lottery prize fund must be at least 50% by
in relation to the proceeds from its conduct.
New Year's draw options
Nobody will be able to hit the jackpot on New Year's Eve, it's just impossible. What are the options for further development of events? Actually there are only two of them: will the organizers give the claimed prize, or still not:
1 the winner will receive one billion rubles (or winners) second round. That's quite possible. In this case, the first level of the draw (jackpot) turns out to be a mere formality, and the declared prize will be shared by the winners of the second round. If it turns out to be one person, then he will receive a billion (minus 13%, i.e 870 million), and if there are two or more, then the amount will be divided among all.
Last New Year's edition (№1212) in the second round one participant won. true, there are more - over the past 24 of draw, the second round ended twice with a victory of two players, but once (in circulation №1245) won immediately 10 participants.
A billion will not be given to anyone. At all, hypothetically, such a possibility exists ... The only question is, how to present it. As an option, можно ограничить кол-во ходов, during which the "Jackpot of the second round" is determined by completing it earlier, how the winners will appear. You can go further and organize the "Third Round Jackpot" in which to distribute the unannounced, and the accumulated super prize (those same 300-450 million), eventually, no one promised about him, that exactly a billion will be played
Generally, with a strong desire, you don't need to play a billion. Do as last year: allocate part of the money for one large prize, part into a lot of medium (promise 100 prizes for 1 a million) and use the rest for small winnings.
clear, what option, when a billion turns out to be a "dummy" is fraught with a big scandal and reputational losses. But, will these considerations stop the organizers? Finally, our people are used to being deceived - well, think, find out, that they once again misunderstood everything. Until next New Year, everyone will probably forget?
Caricature by Alexei Merinov
If you remember the background, then the Russian New Year's drawings of recent years are a series of big and small scandals. Of course, the organizers take into account their previous mistakes each time. But, may be, they should do it right away?
- in 2016 the jackpot was announced 1 billion in the Gosloto lottery "4 out of 20". After, how there was no winner, the super prize "for some reason" was reduced to 300 million. The just announced billion was just a bait, that's all…
- in 2017, it was already about the total prize fund, which was at first a billion, and then two. true, A lot of people, who bought tickets for the first time, surprised to learn, that the drawing was not conducted live as promised. Misunderstood again, it happens…
- IN 2018 we are promised to play a billion, maybe even in one hand and all this (sort of) live. But, maybe we understand something wrong again?
What if you win one of the lotteries?
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