Is Stoloto a hoax?
For comparison, need to take some foreign and domestic lotteries, which are held on the territory of Russia.
Everyone knows, that starting with 2014 of the year, only state lotteries are allowed on the territory of Russia. Frequent companies are prohibited from doing this.. At the moment, hold draws for real money can only the Stoloto company. That is why the consideration of Russian lotteries will be limited to products from this company..
The company "Stoloto" has its own peculiarities of lotteries.
# 1 Determination of the winner
The company spends over 10 lotteries. From the end 2017 of the year, as determining the winners, most lotteries use special automatic lottery drums. You can follow the draw in real time, thanks to continuous online broadcast. Draws are held approximately once an hour or more.
Regarding automated lottery machines, their work is the following principle:
- the operator of the lottery drum starts one or two machines at once;
- lottery drums start to work and randomly, balls are issued at regular intervals, which are marked with numbers;
- the dropped balls are shown to the participants.
Thanks to, that the lottery drums are made of plastic / glass, each participant in the literal sense of the word sees all the transparency of the drawing.
# 2 Player complaints
There are several special internet portals, where are the participants of the lotteries held by "Stoloto", talk about their impressions. There are not only positive statements, but also negative.
Otzovik website
If you visit the portal "Otzovik", of all users who voted, the company "Stoloto" was rated 2,3 stars from 5 possible. Among those who left negative comments, it is possible to note the dissatisfaction of the participants regarding the video broadcasts, which are interrupted quite often. You can also note suspicions about the appropriation of "jackpots" of players. Also displeasing is the smartphone app, which is not very convenient and takes a lot of time to purchase a ticket.
IRecommend site
On another similar portal iRecommend, visitors who left a review, rated "Stoloto" in 3,6 stars from 5. The portal also has some negative reviews., for example, about one lucky person, who won the lottery 5 million. rubles, but soon the ticket with the winning data disappeared from the personal account of the site.
№3 Monopolization
As stated earlier, any lotteries, which are held on the territory of Russia, beginning with 2014 years - remain outside the law.
However, if you delve into the legal part, then we can say, that Stoloto is also not a state, after all, this is essentially a joint stock company "State Sports Lotteries", owned by one person. In fact, it is he who pays the state, so that his lotteries are called state, and the rest remained thus banned.
# 4 Little information about the winners
Up to 2017 of the year, the company "Stoloto" practically did not flaunt the data on the winners. Presently, the situation has changed and now you can find not only their photos on the website in the section "Winners", but also interview.
# 5 Investigation of video bloggers
The network is full of videos from video bloggers, who conduct their investigations, on the subject of honesty and possible problems with receiving funds from "Stoloto". There is one very popular video, in which the author talks about, how he failed to take his honestly won 5,8 million rubles.
# 6 Probability of winning
Different lotteries from Stoloto provide different interest rates for winning. The most popular and preferred among the participants is "Gosloto 4 of 20 ", since here is the highest probability of winning up to 1:3,4. This is due to the, that not half of the proceeds from the sale of coupons are deducted as a prize fund, a 67%.
All about the EuroMillions lottery
I think, it is logical - to learn a little about the history and traditions of the lottery, before you start playing. And in EuroMillions, financial traditions are especially interesting - distribution of funds. I am sure, that they pleasantly shock you.
But let's start from the very beginning., since the beginning of the lottery.
It was not so long ago - the first draw took place in 2004 year in Paris, the declared grand prize was 15 million euros won by a participant from France.
EuroMillions initially established three countries: Great Britain, France and Spain. Later they were joined by other members., and now the number of co-founders is 13 countries.
Джекпот лотереи имеет накопительный характер с граничным «потолком» – то есть при достижении суммы главного приза определенной черты (190 million euros) the rise stops. If no one wins this huge amount, founders start raising prizes in the second and third categories. And if EuroMillions draw results not happy with the Jackpot, then they certainly inspire the owners of minor winnings, because then the whole amount is evenly distributed between them.
But this is not the most interesting part of the lottery either.. It turns out, что учредители проекта – очень альтруистичные люди. They only leave to themselves 0,5% from the proceeds from ticket sales.
The rest is distributed in this way:
- 50% - for prizes to winners of all categories;
- 28% - to support charitable foundations;
- 12% - to the state treasury;
- 5% - commission to ticket distributors;
- 4,5% - for current expenses.
Through which intermediary to play
Unfortunately, most reseller sites, like most official sites international lotteries in Russia 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, what 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:
Conclusion
Benefits of the EuroMillions lottery:
- it is the official game;
- draws are carried out in an international format;
- the probability of victory is much higher, than other well-known foreign lotteries;
- draws are held frequently.
disadvantages:
- a fairly high tax rate on the prize (although the lottery is not to blame, because the tax is paid in the country, where does the winner live);
- time, the amount allocated for the application for winning by the participant is rather small (worth checking by country).
For Russians, the lottery game can be a real chance for a big win. The main thing is that you need to skillfully use this chance.. Be sensible in your quest to win!
