Through which intermediary to play
Unfortunately, most reseller sites, like most of the official sites of international lotteries in Russia, was blocked by Roskomnadzor. For what reason was this done, nobody knows. Moreover, those sites, who work now, too sooner or later will be blocked, this cannot be avoided.
But the intermediaries do not give up and continue to create more and more new domain names., which at least for a certain period allow users to get access to the purchase of the coveted ticket. Also, more advanced Internet users know how to use special tools to bypass blocking.
It all starts to get boring, as users, and by the mediator. This leads to, that international lotteries are becoming less popular. And in the end, they, most probably, will completely leave the Russian-speaking market.
But until that happened, I want to mention one of the most honest intermediaries - Agentlotto. Why do I consider him honest? Because, that they work according to the most transparent scheme and send users scanned copies of purchased tickets.
Generally, watch the video, which shows their scheme of work:
Characteristics of popular euro lottery
In this list, I want to share only the three most popular European lotteries.
3.1. Euromillions
In one of the previous articles, I described in detail the rules of the game and the history of the emergence of Euromillions. Let me remind you:
- The lottery is carried out according to the algorithm 5/50 (basic numbers) + 2/11 (additional numbers).
- You can buy a ticket at any time, like online, and offline. Sale ends for 1,5 hours before the draw.
- About lottery results, its upcoming draws and the current Jackpot size can be found on the website of the European lottery intermediary: agentlotto1.ru.
3.2. Eurojackpot
A very young lottery - exists since 2012 of the year, but already managed to gain popularity among Europeans, despite modest, compared to EuroMillions, Jackpots.
The rules of the game are very similar to Euromillions:
- Algorithm of drawing: 5/50 + 2/10.
- The draw is held on Friday night, broadcast from Helsinki.
- There is an official internet resource eurojackpot.com, where you can learn more about the rules and purchase a ticket. True, this site does not support Russian.
3.3. Viking lotto
This lottery project is not so well known in Russia and the CIS countries., like the previous two, but has the official status of a trans-European.
The price for one ticket is much cheaper, than more popular lottery operators, and is 2,5 euros.
- Draws are broadcast on Wednesdays.
- Drawing scheme:6/48 +2 bonus balls.
- Guaranteed jackpot - 1 million euros. The amount of the prize depends on the country- the participants.
The biggest prizes and jackpots, awarded in Eurojackpot
There is a guaranteed minimum jackpot of 10 000 000 euro for first class winners, i.e 5 numbers and two soles. In the absence of first-class winners, the amount won, expected for this category, will accumulate sequentially every week, until it reaches the maximum jackpot of 90 000 000 euros.
When the accumulated bank reaches a value of 90 million euros, remaining quantities, which are generated for this category, increase the amount, provided for this second category. The second category of rewards also has a maximum cap of 90 000 000 euros for subsequent savings, and the rest will go to lower categories in a row.
From the very beginning of this super lottery in 5 once the maximum jackpot was delivered 90 000 000 euros.
| Year | Draw Date | Jackpot | Winners |
| 2018 | 9 february 2018 of the year | 90 000 000 euros | 1 |
| 6 july 2018 of the year | 90 000 000 euros | 2 | |
| 2017 | 6 january 2017 of the year | 90 000 000 euros | 5 |
| 2016 | 14 October 2016 of the year | 90 000 000 | 1 |
| 2015 | 15 May 2015 of the year | 90 000 000 euros | 1 |
Winnings tax
No matter, how did you win Eurojackpot, online or offline, the amount of winnings received is tax-free. Here the lottery is similar to Euromillions. BUT! This rule applies only to citizens of European states. If you have Belarusian citizenship, Ukraine, Kazakhstan or other CIS countries, be prepared to pay taxes, according to the current legislation of your state.
In Russia, eg, tax rate on winnings (and among them lottery) is equal to individual income tax and amounts to 13%. BUT! It is very difficult for tax officials to identify and prove a fact, what did you win the lottery. Therefore, to pay this tax or not is a matter of your choice..
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Is it possible to win the lottery and what you need to know for this
Skeptics believe, that only lottery organizers win, optimists believe, that "Sportloto", "Gosloto" and other popular lotteries are a real way to gain real financial well-being.
Let's say right away, what to win the lottery, of course, can, and every player has the probability of taking the jackpot. Probability theory and mathematics with basic statistics allow the possibility of winning any lottery ticket at any time.
However, in game theory there is also such a thing as distance, and it is the distance that is the main obstacle on the way of ordinary players to the desired wealth. In other words, a fair amount of time can pass from the moment of waiting for the win to the win. You can play the lottery for a day, month, year, ten years - and the probability of victory will always be approximately the same.
In the article we will try not to touch upon the "mystical" aspect of the game, but it should still be mentioned.
There are players, who believe in good luck conspiracies, in a series of victories, on happy days and numbers, in rabbit feet and rituals. There are many films dedicated to examples of incredible luck, books and TV shows. However, in reality, everything is more prosaic.: playing the lottery, we are dealing with a mathematical theory of the game and nothing more.
Certainly, self-confidence and healthy optimism - conditions, working rather a plus, what a minus. Man, who believes in luck, more often it turns out to be right, than a hopeless pessimist.
Nowadays online lotteries have become very popular, которые почти не отличаются от привычных нам “paper” and offline lotteries.
About that, how it works, watch a short video:
Big win in Russia on a foreign lottery online
By the way, не так давно — в феврале 2016 года — мужчина из Подмосковья, S.K., who works as a personal driver, выиграл с помощью подобной он-лайн лотереи 824 000 euros!
По словам мужчины — победителя лотереи, он играет относительно недавно, just a few months. But this did not become a hindrance, удача улыбнулась ему и джек-пот лотереи «Австрия-лото» успешно перекочевал к отцу троих детей из России.
По понятным причинам счастливчик решил не показывать своего лица, and we can only congratulate him and wish you, dear readers, also be among the owners of round sums.
And we continue… Какие способы выигрыша в лотерею существуют, you will learn, after reading the article to the end.
At one time, many scientific studies were carried out, game theory. Scientists were interested in the question: are there any patterns, on the basis of which you can create a strategy or system to increase the probability of winning?
Is it real, eg, with a theoretically unlimited amount of funds, get more, rather than spending on tickets?
The research results were very disappointing, but quite natural from the point of view of science. They can be summarized in several points:
- The probability of getting any numbers is strictly uniform;
- There is no way to increase the likelihood of guessing numbers over a purely random selection.;
- There are no absolutely winning strategies.
In other words, the verdict of mathematicians was as follows: put it randomly and wait for luck.
However, game theory research did not stop there.. The exact sciences did not inspire reasons for optimism, that's why psychologists got down to business.
The basis was the fact, that the size of the win is influenced not only by mathematics, but also the thinking of lottery participants. The more people choose the same game combination, the less money they get, if this combination is winning.
In this way, the goal of any player is in the "smallest company": i.e, choose such numbers, who are least likely to be chosen by other participants in the draw.
The idea of the supporters of the psychological theory was as follows: don't play against the lottery drum (since you can't beat him), and against other players.
To do this, you need to "just" study the psychology of a typical lottery participant and take them into account when drawing up a winning combination.
Really: in, how the participants choose (cross out) numbers in lotteries, there are certain patterns. The task of a scientific player is to avoid stereotypes of thinking when choosing "lucky" numbers.
