Waiting for a billion
On New Year's Eve, it will most likely happen like this, how was it last year. Nobody will get a billion, а накопленный джекпот распределится между победителями. Yes, the total prize pool is likely to be over a billion. But, even a billion, if divided into several million participants, it turns into penny winnings
Lottery "Russian Lotto" is one of our most unprofitable lotteries. On the odds of a jackpot (1 of 295 232 118) она лидер сложности, на уровне американских PowerBall и MegaMillions. At the same time, most of the prize fund is spent on completely insignificant prizes., which many do not even take. Spending money on it is pointless, большинство участников, even playing for years, never get more 200-300 rubles.
Meanwhile, in terms of turnover "Russian Lotto" is now in the lead. Several factors contribute to this - lack of competition, advertising power, the race for the ghost billion and then, that players do not know their chances of winning and do not analyze, how the prize fund is distributed
As a matter of fact, by the ratio of the cost of the game / возможная отдача все российские лотереи давно стали совершенно не интересными. What to do, for those who understand this? Only play there, где существуют более вменяемые лотереи. Good, if desired, all this is quite possible.
UPD. Stoloto's press service reported, that the prize fund of the New Year's circulation exceeded 2 billion rubles. This is a record figure for our lotteries. Meanwhile, despite the increase in the amount of fees, the number of large prizes does not seem to change, все так же фигурируют 50 country houses. Принудительный розыгрыш Джекпота (161 million), will happen too. Nevertheless, судя по этим данным — большая часть призового фонда как обычно будет распределена на мелкие выигрыши.
Promising is not sharing
true, not a billion will be distributed to everyone, but only 161 one million rubles. Why? Потому-что миллиард это лишь обещание, physically it does not exist. There is an accumulated jackpot, the same, to increase which in each draw, a part of the prize fund is withdrawn - it is this that will be distributed.
The accumulated jackpot is now 161 one million rubles. This amount was accumulated in just 5 circulation.
Prize pool and deductions to the jackpot of the latter 5 circulation
As we can see, еженедельно суммы изымались существенные. Особенно показателен тираж № 1209, can be disassembled using his example:
- 2 340 603 - number of tickets, who took part in the drawing
- 117 030 150 - prize fund of the draw
- 68 030 150 - went to the payment of prizes
- 49 000 000 - Sent to the jackpot
49 million (!) from one print run, nearly 42% призового фонда пошло в джекпот. This is a lot. Perhaps the players are not thinking, but in this way the conditions of the lottery become worse - fewer large prizes, less other payments
In many of the world's lotteries, a significantly smaller proportion of the prize pool goes to the jackpot. And large sums are collected because, что играет много людей. Yes, крупный джекпот повышает интерес к игре и, respectively, sales. But, изымать ради его роста столь заметную часть призового фонда — в корне неправильный подход.
If there was competition in the market, then players would have a choice - to participate in the lottery where the jackpot is higher or there, где призовой фонд распределяется на призы второй-третьей категории. A great example of a lottery that focuses on many big prizes is El Gordo de Navidad (Spain) where are the winnings 400 000 евро исчисляются сотнями. Another good example is the experience of the Soviet Sportloto, when there was no jackpot at all.
К сожалению наш оператор занимает монопольное положение и может направлять в джекпот практически любую сумму. This moment is not regulated by law. As well as the existence of guaranteed (promised) super prize. Currently, the operator can announce any jackpot size, he does not need to accumulate money for this in advance, what would be right, and he actively uses it - the example of the New Year's billion is very typical
