Five fascinating facts from MegaMillions history
This lottery game has 5 fascinating features.
- For 20 years of draws players bought 29 billion 410 million lottery tickets MegaMillions.
- Максимальный приз лотереи составил 326 000 000. It was owned by a New Yorker in 2014 year.
- Most wins were drawn in 2015 year. According to statistics, provided by the organizers, in this productive lottery year, 8 main prizes. Interesting, что три приза из восьми были больше 200 000 000 dollars.
- IN 2005 year California joined the American lottery. The founders decided to have a grand celebration of this event. The lottery draw was held in Hollywood. Its useful to note, that the most famous presenters in America were invited to hold the festive drawing: Carrie Underwood and Glenn Burns.
- Throughout the history of the lottery game, win counts. IN 2000, 2011 and 2012 years, players became jackpot holders, who bought tickets online.
Fascinating fact - all participants with online tickets received the same prizes - 250 one thousand dollars.
One of the lucky ones mentioned was skeptical about lottery games.. Once he decided to try his luck and bought a ticket right before the drawing. What was his surprise, when, checking the results, he was the winner.
Benefits of foreign lotteries.
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Let's start with the key advantage of many foreign lotteries:
lotteries are held either by the state itself, or the state exercises the strictest control over lotteries.
- A striking example is American Powerball lotteries, Megamillions, Superlotto Plus.
Many of them are run by specific states, that is, the organizer of the lottery is the state represented by the state.
clear, that the state thereby achieves several goals at once, namely: high confidence in such a lottery on the part of the population, full control over the lottery and distribution of tickets, full confidence that, that the remaining funds after the payment of all winnings will go to the treasury and in the future will be used for the social needs of the state or country, but will not be transferred to a bank account in some offshore.
That is why state foreign lotteries are an example of the maximum trust in them from the population..
By the way, the organizer of the Russian lottery "Gosloto" is by no means the state, and firm (more about it - here), which exists under the state law on the conduct of lotteries.
Yet again, this does not mean at all, that Gosloto will deceive you, but this lottery is not a state one in our understanding.
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First advantage, rather obvious - this is the size of jackpots in foreign lotteries.
Almost sure, that you are interested in foreign lotteries precisely because, what did you hear about, how another lucky guy won a mind-blowing jackpot. Or they saw the amount of the jackpot not yet won and became interested in foreign lotteries.
Yes, yes, there is nothing surprising in this - the more prosperous the country is, the larger the winnings in local lotteries with a rather ridiculous cost of one combination in the ticket. The jackpot is not taken out of nowhere and is formed, of course, exclusively thanks to the participants, buying tickets. The richer the country, the more tickets are bought.
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The second advantage of foreign lotteries is that winnings in some of them are not taxed by the state, in which these lotteries are held.
Yes, this does not apply to American lotteries, but applies, eg, to the Australian lotteries.
More about taxes and countries, where lottery winnings are tax-free, can be viewed here.
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Third, not so obvious advantage of popular foreign lotteries is fair play. I am not at all going to oppose the same Russian lotteries to foreign.
I will never tell, that Russian lotteries are dishonest. I only affirm, that foreign lotteries are fair.
There are two reasons for this..
The first is that popular foreign lotteries are very tightly controlled by the state..
Special committees closely monitor the prevention of any fraud during the lottery.
The second reason is that there is no evidence, that foreign lotteries are unfair.
For all the time of their existence, there was not a single case, so that someone does not get their huge jackpot in a foreign lottery.
There was not a single case, when the organizers of these lotteries were caught cheating. Over the years, a total of billions of tickets have been bought in foreign lotteries.
And there were no cases of cheating players by the organizers.
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Fourth advantage (perhaps the most important thing) - no one will ever know in your city, that you became the owner of a large win in a foreign lottery.
I guess, what explosions of delight a person experiences, who won the Russian lottery with ten million rubles.
But something tells me, that after being intoxicated by such unexpected happiness, a person begins to seriously worry about, that sooner or later all and sundry will find out about his win. And only because, that envious people will always be found and whisper in everyone's ear about your winnings. This is not possible in a foreign lottery. Here is the unwillingness to spoil the image on the part of lottery organizers, and just age-old traditions of respect for other people's capital. So your millions, even potential, better get in a foreign lottery.
You will sleep well and you, and your not so lucky friends, friends and just neighbors.
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The fifth advantage of foreign lotteries over Russian ones is the winning currency.
Whoever and what would not tell me about the Russian ruble, whoever claims what, but I remember well, where and how quickly the national currency rolled into the next financial crisis.
In foreign lotteries, you can choose the one, the currency you like most is the British pound sterling, dollars, euro…
Anyway, and it is better to fix your winnings in a reliable currency, than wake up on another black Monday (Tuesday, Wednesday, …) and sad to realize, that some of your winnings have already disappeared into nowhere.
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How to buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket online
When you buy Mega Millions tickets online, you, similar, as with the usual (paper) tickets, you need to choose your numbers in accordance with the lottery rules. The only difference is instead of the point of sale, at theLotter, you select your numbers on a virtual box.
1. Select ticket type
When shopping online, you can choose from several types of tickets: standard rate (single ticket), share in a syndicate, or combo.
2. Choose your numbers
Buying Mega Million tickets (online or offline), you have two ways to select your numbers - do it manually, or play with random numbers - you can do it online, by clicking on "Auto-select". Each approach has its advantages. Some players have been successful, choosing dates of birth, anniversaries or other lucky numbers. Others use hot and cold numbers. On the other hand, random numbers can also bring you luck, and the likelihood, that the same combination will appear on the ticket of other players below. This reduces the likelihood, what the player, to the winner of the jackpot with a combination of random numbers, will have to share your prize with additional winners. Anyway, everything is in the hands of fate!
3. Choose the "Mega Ball" number
The "Mega Ball" is drawn from a separate reel from the range 1-25. Like the main numbers, you can choose it yourself, or trust fate by clicking on "Auto-select".
4. Add the "Megaplier" option and select the type of bet
Before clicking on the "Play" button, you can connect the "Megaplier" option. You are not required to select this option., but she can turn a small prize into a lot of money. You can also buy tickets for several runs at once by purchasing a Multi-ticket or a subscription. Both options give you discounts!
5. Create an account on the website
If you do not have an account on the site yet, you will be redirected to the website creation page, where you will be asked to enter your personal data. After registration you will be able to complete the ticket purchase process.
6. Enter your billing information
The last step in the ticket buying process is adding a payment method. We offer a wide variety of payment methods, depending on the country, where you are.
