How to view the results
If for some reason you will not be able to watch online, there are ways to check the results of the draw in a different way. You can check the ticket using an archive entry on the official lottery website. But there are a few more working ways:
- Finblog website. RF - here the results will be published almost immediately after the circulation.
- Supermarket "Stoloto" - the results of the drawing will appear in the evening 1 january.
- Russian Post and kiosks - here you can get acquainted with the official information through 2-3 days.
- By phone 8-900-55-500-55 - you can call the specified number immediately after the drawing.
- Group "Stoloto" in a social network - for this you need to fill out a feedback form.
- Mobile application "Stoloto" - can be installed on your phone and then all the results of the drawing will come in the form of Push notifications.
Jackpot types. Progressive jackpot
Jackpots are (1) predetermined or (2) progressive.
In the first case, the player is guaranteed to take possession of the jackpot of a fixed size when a predetermined winning combination falls out or the expected event occurs.
Progressive jackpot - sometimes referred to as cumulative jackpot - no upper limits. Its value often reaches tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars..
The peculiarity of the progressive jackpot is the constant increase in the money fund created for it due to the percentage deductions from the amounts lost by the participants in the game or lottery.
Due to the participation of hundreds of thousands of participants in certain draws, the size of the progressive jackpot can be comparable to the annual budget of an island nation ...
Accumulating jackpots are widely used in slot machines, video slots and video games, helping to whet interest in them to incredible limits. Greed, coupled with passion, do their "dirty deed": people literally lose their heads in an effort to get rich at once ...
Winning the progressive jackpot isn't easy. It takes more than just luck, and the real favor of Destiny. Millions of gamers see themselves as applicants for such fabulous money, and the more there are, the smaller the chances of a single player to win.
Any casino will benefit from equipping slot machines with a progressive jackpot, because its size is ALWAYS an order of magnitude less than the profit from the services provided by the casino. But a more powerful publicity stunt, inevitably attracting customers, still not invented.
A big win is always made up of the total amount of money lost by less fortunate players. You must always be aware of this., crossing the threshold of the casino or registering on the next virtual playground ...
Types and features of winning lotteries - how to win a lot
There are many types of lotteries: it is very easy for a beginner to get confused by this variety. The main advice to all beginners is to play better in the most popular and large-scale lotteries, best of all domestic.
- At first, in the most popular lotteries, usually, very solid jackpot;
- Secondly, in case of winning in the domestic lottery, you will not need to travel too far to get honestly earned money.
Let's warn you right away, that lotteries have no special secrets. So if you are offered some super-systems for money, wonderful strategies, you, likely, just "bred". You shouldn't spend your finances on purchasing miracle techniques, better to buy an extra ticket.
There are several types of lotteries:
1) Instant lotteries
This is the simplest type of lottery. You need to erase the closed field on the purchased ticket: you will know about the winning immediately after the process of removing the scratch layer. Some instant lotteries have a different principle: you just rip off part of the ticket, and then unfold it. Small winnings can be claimed at the point of purchase, a large "jackpot" requires contacting the organizers directly.
2) Draw lotteries
This is the most popular and demanded type of lottery. Draws are divided, in its turn, still on 2 varieties.
The first option involves self-selection of numbers, the second is a ready-made ticket, having a unique number. The most popular are those lotteries, in which the player chooses the numbers himself.
There are also local lotteries: Promotions, quiz, advertising draws.
Usually, these are one-time events, conducted by the organizers for commercial purposes.
Usually, non-cash prizes are drawn in such promotions., and goods. Experienced players advise not to neglect such events - sometimes the probability of winning in them is quite high due to the limited number of participants.
Another thing, that not everyone in the household can use a coffee grinder or clothes dryer, but, eg, a car or laptop is unlikely to be superfluous.
The largest jackpots
The biggest jackpot in the world was drawn in the Powerball lottery (USA) in 2016 year. Its size was 1,586 billion dollars and was equally divided between the three participants, guessing the winning combination of numbers.
Each winner then received more than half a billion dollars..
In September 2018 of the year, the world community was again stunned by the stunning news of the jackpot drawing, not much inferior to the record, at the rate of 1,537 billion dollars (excluding taxes - as in the previous example).
The lucky winner was the owner of the MegaMillions lottery ticket, acquired in the US state of South Carolina. The winnings will be paid out in equal monthly installments during 29 years. The amount of one such payment will exceed 2,2 million dollars.
Billion-dollar Jackpot Wins Revealed Instantly Heats Interest in Lotteries, causing avalanche-like buying of tickets around the world. Thanks to this, lottery organizers have the opportunity to very quickly restore the winning lottery fund..
The number of participants in such lotteries during the surge can reach tens of millions, despite the fact that the probability of winning each individual participant is inversely proportional to their total number.
In the same MegaMillions lottery, the probability of getting the coveted jackpot is scanty 3 x 10-9. Only one of its more than three hundred million members can count on Fortune's favor.
