Unclaimed winnings
At all, winnings that are not taken away are a massive phenomenon, they are in any world lottery. There are many of these in Russia, moreover, the accumulated amount is amazing - already more than a billion (!) rubles, lie useless load on the operator's accounts. true, most of this money is small winnings, by 110-150 rubles (at ticket price 100 rubles), but there are also some large, biggest, today, это как раз 18 110 695 рублей 179-го тиража Жилищной лотереи.
If no one asserts their rights to him, then already in May 2019 it should be transferred to the budget (by law, unclaimed winnings for three years go to the state). Less than a year left. You definitely don't have this ticket? ))
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 ...
10. PowerBall Lottery - 315 USD million, 2013 year
Money is not a guarantee of happiness and success, especially "easy" money. And this story is a vivid proof of that.. On Christmas Eve, American Jack Whittaker made an incredible amount - 315 million US dollars. But after that, his life and the life of his entire family went awry.. It all started with, that Jack was robbed several times. But this is nothing, compared to that, that the corpse of a little boy was found in his house, deceased from drug overdose. The winner himself turned out to be a cruel criminal. At the trial, his wife confessed, what if not for this lottery, their life would have turned out differently.
Not looking for firefighters, the police are not looking
При этом факт столь крупного бесхозного выигрыша совершенно не беспокоит лотерейного оператора. Nobody makes loud statements, does not urge citizens to shake up their old lottery tickets and compare them with the results of the drawing. Complete and absolute silence.
What is characteristic, выигрыш 179-го тиража упоминался и позже, behold, eg, quote from news (March 2017), dedicated to the next drawn jackpot:
"February 26, the festive broadcast of the 222nd draw of the Housing Lottery took place on the air of the NTV channel, dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day. A resident of the Tambov region became the winner in the first round, his winnings were 18 097 968 rubles. This is the second largest super prize in the history of the Housing Lottery <…>
“The biggest prize has been raffled 30 April 2016 years in the course of the 179th draw . Then the amount of the win turned out to be slightly more than the current one - 18 110 695 rubles ", — сообщили в PR-службе АО «ТД «Столото»
At the same time, the press service of Stoloto is somehow silent., that the same record win is still ownerless.
In Russia
Residents of Russia love lottery draws no less than Americans. They are divided into two types:
- circulation;
- unclean.
The largest amounts are drawn in the drawn versions, when the rally is held after, how is the sales stage finished?. According to the law, they are all supervised by the state. The creation of such a business by individuals is prohibited., as they cannot provide guarantees.
Find out, what is the biggest lottery win for a resident of the Russian Federation.
Nikolay Miroshnichenko from Yekaterinburg and Sergey Dorogov from St. Petersburg (1billion. rubles)
"Stoloto" lottery brought a gift to two men at the same time. On the eve of a new 2019 the year the jackpot was drawn in 1 billion rubles, it was shared by two lucky ones.
First - driver Nikolay Miroshnichenko from Yekaterinburg. He spoke about the family's tradition of buying tickets on New Year's holidays and waiting for a miracle.. Circulation 1264 did not look, because they just forgot.
N. Miroshnichenko and his wife came for the prize
The second lucky was a locksmith from St. Petersburg Sergey Dorogov. He came to Moscow for the prize with his wife, cloakroom attendant. TO 31 December they purchased immediately 10 tickets and dreamed of winning a house. Now they can make dreams come true.
Natalia Vlasova from Voronezh (506 million. rubles)
In the end 2017 on the eve of the New Year holidays, the country was shocked by the news that, that Russian Lotto played the jackpot, and it was won by a resident of the Voronezh region. The woman could not be found for a long time, and then people reached out to her asking for help with money.
Natalia Vlasova from the Voronezh region
Natalia Vlasova - retired, before, how she got the chance to become a millionaire, she was engaged in trade, to bring additional income to the family. Income tax will be deducted from the total amount, everything else will be transferred in several amounts.
Hasmik Reufovna from Sochi (365 million. rubles)
A resident of Sochi bought a lottery ticket "Gosloto" 6 out of 45 "and 21 May 2017 year, fate gave her a gift in the form of three hundred million. Wherein, organizers said, that a woman can receive a prize at the main office in Moscow. She had to collect money for a trip to the capital, because the family lives in poverty.
Hasmik Reufovna - cultural worker. Amazing, that along with the news about the huge amount of winnings, it was said that, that she wants to donate part of the amount to the KPRF fund.
Failed
This jackpot is a little bit out of the total unclaimed winnings. Strictly speaking - he didn't even exist. It has one thing in common with the rest of the examples - the alleged winner was unknown..
21 May 2010 of the year, in the Corner Store (St. John's, Canada) one of the buyers has issued a ticket for the next Lotto Max Atlantic lottery draw. The seller made a mistake when placing a bid, as a result of which the cost of the ticket was $ 27 instead $ 12. The buyer did not want to pay more and demanded to cancel the ticket
The most interesting thing happened later. In the night draw, the same numbers fell, which were marked in the wrong ticket. Since no one else has marked them, the buyer could become the sole owner of the jackpot in the amount of $ 30 million. If I hadn't canceled the ticket ... (a source)
Representative Atlantic Lottery Corp. in St. John's, said, that the incident is unusual - “this was great news for us. As far as we know, such a big win, on canceled ticket, has never happened before "
maybe, the buyer who refused to pay found out more, that was one step away from the jackpot - St. John's is a small town, and this news was actively discussed there. But no one ever confessed to this oversight, the jackpot remained intact. AND, afterwards, already got someone else
