Australian lotteries
Lotteries are government owned in Australia, which entails full legality and transparency of games - the income from them regularly replenish the country's budget.
Powerball Australia
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The largest weekly lottery with the highest jackpots.
- Guess seven numbers out of forty and one special number from one to twelve
- Player must be of legal age (18 years)
- Chance to hit the jackpot one on 134 million, and to win one of the minimum prizes - 1:44
- Jackpot minimum is 3 million Australian dollars, no upper limit
- To collect your winnings, the winner will have six months from the date the results are announced
Oz Lotto
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Leads its history over 15 years. Like all Australian lotteries - state, with a good reputation and guaranteed payments.
- It is necessary to select seven numbers from forty-five and 2 bonus ball
- Minimum jackpot amount 2 million Australian dollars. Recorded sum record - 112 million
- The chance of winning is one to 45 millions for the jackpot, and one out of fifty for the minimum prize
Monday & Wednesday Lotto
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As the name suggests, these draws are held every week on Mondays and Wednesdays.
- Six numbers are selected among forty-five plus two additional
- Super prize is fixed - it is one million Australian dollars
- One of the cheapest lotteries - you can place a bet for less than a dollar
Tatts Lotto - он же Saturday Lotto
This is not a lottery, and the official distributor of tickets for all possible Australian lotteries. To use his services, you need to register on the official website, using your real data (they will be checked in case of winning).
The site only supports English, so you should be careful, so as not to be mistaken in transliterating personal data. Use latin letters, completely corresponding to Russian sounds, or better, use the official transcription.
Syndicate
What is a syndicate?
Syndicate is a voluntary grouping of players to purchase tickets in bulk and take part in the game. The syndicate allows you to buy many times more lottery tickets, but the resulting winnings in this game strategy are divided equally among all members of the syndicate. The syndicate is also called the "lottery pool". Each member of the pool must make a certain contribution and adhere to special rules, which each syndicate develops for itself.
Syndicate members can be friends, colleagues, relatives and appoint the head of the syndicate, which monitors the results of the game and manages the pool funds. There are syndicates, where the participants don't know each other. Such pools are created for a one-time game in order to save on ticket purchases.
Syndicates were created to increase the chances of winning the game. Known, that the more lottery tickets bought, the more likely you are to win a prize.
How to play as part of a syndicate?
To participate in the syndicate, the player can create his own pool, uniting friends and acquaintances, or join an existing syndicate.
Pool members make monthly or quarterly contributions, fixed size. With this money, a certain number of lottery tickets is purchased for each game.. If the syndicate wins a prize, then the amount of the winnings in equal parts goes to each participant in the pool.
Where to play?
Usually, the opportunity to play as part of a syndicate is provided by intermediary sites. Information regarding participation in pools can be found in the site rules.
How much can you win?
Amounts, the syndicates win range from 4 dollars before the jackpot. According to statistics, near 40 % of all major lottery prizes belong to pool members.
How much more likely to win as part of a syndicate?
Chances of winning are based on the number of tickets purchased by the syndicate. Anyway, playing in a pool means, that the total number of tickets for the syndicate will be 200-300. Compared to the odds of an individual game on 1-2 ticket, then you can see the real picture. The odds of winning with a syndicate are several times higher than playing alone.
Winnings
note, that in this lottery the order of numbers does not matter. The most important thing is to accurately guess all the numbers.
for example, if you have selected numbers on your lottery ticket in the following order “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6», and in the lottery drum they fell out in a completely different order "2, 5, 6, 1, 3, 4». It does not mean, what did you lose, on the contrary, we won, after all, absolutely all the numbers of this drawing have been guessed.
Consider, how the size of the win depends on the number of guessed digits:
- 1 red ball - 4 Doll. USA;
- 1 white and 1 red balloons - 4 Doll. USA;
- 2 whites and 1 red balloons - 7 Doll. USA;
- 3 white balls - 7 Doll. USA;
- 3 whites and 1 red ball - 100 Doll. USA;
- 4 white balls - 100 Doll. USA;
- 4 whites and 1 red ball - 10 thousand. Doll. USA;
- 5 white balls - 1 million. Doll. USA;
- 5 whites and 1 red ball - jack pot.
If the draw is played with a multiplier, then the amount of the win will be:
- 1 red ball - from 8 Doll. USA to 40 Doll. USA;
- 1 white and 1 red balloons - from 8 Doll. USA to 40 Doll. USA;
- 2 whites and 1 red balloons - from 14 Doll. USA to 70 Doll. USA;
- 3 white balls - from 14 Doll. USA to 70 Doll. USA;
- 3 whites and 1 red ball - from 200 Doll. USA to 1 thousand. Doll. USA;
- 4 white balls - from 200 Doll. USA to 1 thousand. Doll. USA;
- 4 whites and 1 red ball - from 20 thousand. Doll. USA to 100 thousand. Doll. USA;
- 5 white balls - 2 million. Doll. USA;
- 5 whites and 1 red ball - jack pot.
It is because of the Powerball prize pool that the online USA lottery is considered one of the most profitable for players., because the cost of tickets is not very high, and there are serious sums at stake for winnings.
Increase in winnings
Everyone wants to get a large amount of winnings, than declared by the organizers of the lottery. If you play Powerball, then you always have such a chance. Players can double or even triple their bets. Of course, the cost of one ticket also increases. But, more chances of getting a prize.
To get a bigger prize, players can cooperate and create a so-called "syndicate". This is not part of the official Powerball rules, however, it is not prohibited by US law.
The principle of operation is simple: a certain number of participants in the drawing redeem the maximum possible number of tickets. In case of a win, it is divided "fairly" between all members of the syndicate.
There are two options for winning section:
- equally among all participants;
- proportionately.
Most often, players choose the last partition method. It means, that the player will receive a large amount, who bought tickets for 100 US dollars, and not on 10 US dollars. This division is considered fairer and more honest..
True, this option is not available for players from Russia and you are unlikely to be able to find honest organizers, who can represent it.
Maximum winnings
The Powerball lottery is considered one of the largest lotteries in the world. And this is not surprising, because at the beginning 2016 the prize fund was 1,5 billion US dollars. This is a lot of money even for wealthy American citizens..
This jackpot was won by a resident of Florida, who recently turned 80 years. The woman did not even suspect, what ticket, which she bought in the store for 2 US dollars, will make her a real millionaire.
The American had two ways to collect her money:
- the whole amount at once (in the end she would get 930 US dollars, net of all taxes and fees);
- partially "split" payments into 30 years.
The latter option would be more profitable in terms of taxation. It is also a safer scenario., since there are known cases, when lottery winners took their big winnings, and then they were just lost.
However, the winner decided, what to expect at her age 30 years is not the best option, so I took all my prize at once.
The maximum winning amount is not limited. As already said, every week is added to the base jackpot 10 million US dollars, if there was no main winner in the previous draw. therefore, everyone has a chance to hit the biggest jackpot in the world and set a new record.
