No one wants a billion

Where did the billion come from??

Billion, as the organizers explain to us - this is the amount, which they will give to the one, who will break the jackpot. Well, and if there is no winner, then the accumulated super prize will be divided among all.

true, there are a couple of nuances. The promised billion is just advertising bait, or the so-called guaranteed prize. In reality, this money may not exist, this is exactly a promise - if the fact of winning happens, then the organizers will pay exactly the same amount. From their own funds, Yes.

And to distribute to all (if nobody takes the jackpot) there won't be a billion, and the accumulated super prize. Который сейчас составляет 126 million rubles. This is certainly not bad, but will add to the usual winnings 20-30%, not more.

What is characteristic, the concept of guaranteed prizes is not regulated by law in any way. The lottery organizer is not obliged to collect the promised amount in advance, which would be logical. You can promise anything, and if such baits lead to increased sales, then why not do it regularly?

By the way, there are no big "guaranteed" prizes in foreign lotteries. There are minimal (starting) jackpots designed to maintain interest in the game after the usual jackpot has not accumulated. And that's understandable. Who will risk their money and promise to give a big jackpot, while it has not accumulated yet? Much easier to wait, until the jackpot is collected from the players' bets.

Which rules?

This time the draw will include 32 tour conducted according to the following rules:

1. In the first round, the winners are those, who was the fastest to delete everything 5 numbers on one line (in the last draw there were 62 player).
2. The main prize will be drawn in the second round. The one who will win it, who can cross out first 15 numbers in the playing field.
3. In the third and other rounds, can win those, who will cross everything out the fastest 30 numbers.

Those players, who won the first two rounds, continue to play until the very end of the draw. Lucky ones, what we won in the third and other rounds, end the game there.

Unclaimed winnings

Winnings, that no one took the mass phenomenon, they are in any country and in any lottery. IN USA, where is the world's largest lottery market (Americans spend more than 80 billion dollars annually!) the topic of unclaimed winnings is equally widespread. The American scale is impressive, там каждый год 1-2 billion dollars remain ownerless, and most of this amount is small prizes. Although, it happens, that they do not take away and very large winnings, например — 77 or 63 million dollars (you can read more about both cases in the article "Top-7 unclaimed winnings")

The reason, that "the win was not needed" - very different, но чаще всего играют роль обычные, household factors. The ticket might just get lost, disappear when washed, fire or moving. Small children or pets can tear it. Happens, that the owner himself does not check the ticket very carefully, and throws it in the trash. Finally, even with the winner himself, something can happen. But this, of course, extreme case.

And what about us?

Billion, billion, billion…

If you carefully read the terms of participation in the New Year's drawing, then you can find out, what: The phrase "Let's play a billion or more!"Indicates the size of the prize fund.

In principle, no one hides this.

Screen commentary in the official Stoloto group VKontakte

What is the prize pool? According to the Law "On Lotteries", the organizer must at least 50% to send from fees to the prize fund. In other words, you wanna play a billion, need to sell tickets for two billion. If one ticket costs 100 rubles, it turns out you need to sell 20 million tickets. Is it possible?

In each draw of the "Russian Lotto" lottery, about 2 million tickets. Several times more were sold for the last New Year edition, nearly 8 million tickets. Basically, considering the powerful advertising campaign (including PR on a pensioner, выигравшей но пока не получившей 506 million rubles), then the chances to sell 20 million tickets are.

And if you remember, that there is also the accumulated jackpot (126 million) then, in order for the prize fund to reach a billion, you need to sell even less, about 17 million tickets. Generally, the alignment is clear, Yes? Promising a record draw, lottery organizers run a powerful advertising campaign, collecting the necessary money from the players and voila! Billion plucked!

Basically, there is in the lottery world, in which a similar approach is implemented. For example - Spanish Christmas lottery. Literally today they will play there 2,4 billion euros. But, there is a significant difference - in Spain it is known in advance, how many tickets are planned to be sold, what amount will be typed, and most importantly, what is the structure of the prize fund. Somebody knows, how will our billion be distributed?

Unnecessary millions

IN 2017 мы уже делали обзор выигрышей которых остались бесхозными, на тот момент это было 512 million rubles. Only a year has passed and the amount has doubled! Presently, according to the annual financial statements published by the lottery operator, there is already an unclaimed billion on his account!

Billion rubles, which the players just didn't take. Why and where did this money come from?

Like last year, большая часть невостребованных выигрышей скопилась в бинго-лотереях. If you look at the annual report of the VGL 4 Sports » (under this name there are three algorithms, but in fact it is 3 independent lotteries - "Russian Lotto", Housing Lottery and Golden Horseshoe), then you can see what has accumulated only on them 812 million rubles.

The amount of unclaimed winnings of the VGL lottery 4 Sports », 2017 year

Wherein, most of the amount, like last year, these are winnings in the "Russian Lotto" lottery

Unclaimed winnings in Russian lotteries, amounts for each

In this list 8 lotteries (three of which are also represented by separate, new year, circulations) и общая сумма невостребованных выигрышей — 1 067 795 060 rub. One billion rubles!

For the sake of justice, worth saying, что сумма накопилась не за один год. По закону победитель должен получить выигрыш в течение шести месяцев после тиража. Если за этот срок он не был востребован, then the money must be credited to a special account, where and are stored until the expiration of the limitation period. It turns out, what a billion accumulated for 2,5 of the year. true, it should be noted, что максимальный прирост получился именно в 2017 year