Popular Russian lotteries: reviews and review

Winnings 2016 of the year

14 In October, a street cleaner from Brussels won the European EuroMillions lottery 168 million euros, what was the biggest win in the history of the kingdom.

15 October, a resident of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg won the maximum prize in the international lottery Eurojackpot in the amount of 90 million euros. Eurojackpot lottery popular among residents 17 European countries. To hit the jackpot, players need to guess five numbers from 50 and two more additional numbers out of ten.

12 August, an Estonian resident won a record amount in the country's history during the Eurojackpot international lottery - 1,155 million euros. According to the state company Eesti Loto, this win is the largest in the history of lotteries in Estonia.

29 July, a resident of German Hesse won the Eurojackpot lottery 84,8 million euros. The lucky man managed to guess all the winning numbers

8 May Powerball winner ticket with jackpot in 429,6 million dollars was bought in the US state of New Jersey. The probability of winning is 1 of 292,2 million.

26 March, a resident of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia won the Eurojackpot lottery 76,8 million euros.

5 In March, brothers James and Bob Stoklas from Pennsylvania, USA won Powerball more than 291 million dollars. However, the winnings were not quite evenly distributed.: lottery ticket brought to James 291,4 million, and Bob won 7 dollars.

27 February resident of Novosibirsk, participant of "Gosloto" 6 out of 45 ", became the owner of a record in the history of lotteries in Russia, the super prize "Gosloto" 358 million 358 thousand 466 rubles. He took part in three draws. His lucky bet, which the winner made in one of the city's lottery kiosks, cost 1800 rubles. The record fell on the 1885th circulation.

15 February, UK national operator Camelot confirmed, that the United Kingdom filed won almost 25 million pounds sterling in the largest European lottery Euromillions.

12 February a bunch of Dublin friends shared the EuroMillions jackpot by 132 million euros with a French resident. The winners received 66 million euros.

13 January, the American Powerball lottery raffled off the world's largest jackpot. The winning amount was 1,6 billion dollars. It was won by three tickets, the owners of which divided the winnings among themselves. Chances of winning each ticket, participating in the drawing, were 1 on 292 million. Florida couple is one of three winners. We are talking about 70-year-old Maureen Smith and 55-year-old David Kaltschmidt. They agreed with the organizers of the lottery about a lump sum payment in 327 million dollars. John and Liza Robertson from Tennessee took a similar strategy. Another winning ticket was sold in California, but who bought it, unknown.

Absolute record

In the 179th draw of the Housing Lottery, which was broadcast 30 April 2016 of the year, случилась почти сенсация: the largest super prize in the history of this lottery was drawn in the amount of 17 900 695 rubles. При этом общий выигрыш участника составил 18 110 695 rubles (210 he got additional thousand rubles for the victory in the first round)

results 179 Housing lottery draw - the main prize 18 110 695 rubles

Prior to this, the Housing Lottery jackpot was won three times, true, the amounts were more modest

• 4 100 000 rubles (47 circulation, broadcast from 20 October 2013 of the year)
• 5 100 000 rubles (78 circulation, broadcast from 25 May 2014 of the year)
• 6 412 551 ruble (140 circulation, broadcast from 2 August 2015 of the year)

It's easy to see, что победитель 179-го тиража мог одним махом получить денег больше, than all three previous lucky ones. Who took this money?

Elusive winner

Stoloto rarely shares details about the big winners. Of the holders of large sums, only two are known, and both won not so long ago:

• Vladimir Shatokhin from Krasnodar, winner 74 696 278 рублей в лотерее «Гослото «6 из 45»
• Natalia Vlasova from Panino, winning 506 million rubles in the lottery "Russian Lotto"

Остальные лотерейные миллионеры чаще всего неизвестны. Wherein, о ком-то из них есть скупые интервью-рассказы от Столото, and nothing was reported about the others, it's not even clear if they came to win?

true, any payments or non-payments, (even if incognito lottery millionaires) must go through accounting, и если кто-то не забрал крупный выигрыш, you can see it right away. Все крупные анонимные миллионеры, seem to be, got their money. But the winner of the Housing Lottery is still (прошло более двух лет!) didn't take my winnings. Who is he, whether he came for a prize or not - it is not known. The only detail, which is - a ticket, which hit the jackpot, bought in Ufa.

Annual report screen, which features the largest unclaimed Housing Lottery win

It turns out, that at the time of publication of the report (and it was posted in May 2018) those same 18 million lay on the operator's accounts

From Russia with love

The largest winnings belong not only to foreign players and bookmaker clients. Domestic sports fans were also able to make history, having hit a big jackpot. And not necessarily the largest bet in the world, but the size of some may surprise. Known recent cases:

• the user of the Marathon office set 1,5 million. rubles for the victory of Belgium, which was supposed to rival Sweden, Germany and Tunisia. He ended up getting 3,25 million;
• another representative of the domestic winners is a Moscow businessman, who bet on one of the players in the Australian tennis championship. By choosing outcomes on 15 games, and putting 50 rubles, Muscovite won 141 million in Vinline;
• in February 2020 bettor in BC Olympus put 500 rubles per coupon from 6 NHL matches, in which in all positions chose the outcome of a draw in regulation time. Coefficient - 2000 brought a lucky analyst 1 one million rubles;
• and another client of the same bookmaker Olympus won the KHL this season 1,26 million, put 200000 rubles for kef 6,3.
• Probably the biggest win in recent years was for the forecaster Fonbet at the last world championship - almost 15 million rubles at a rate of 2,85 million. to win the French in the final.

It is problematic to name the largest bet in the world due to the fact, that many do not want to "shine", and services for collecting such information are not yet provided. Occasionally bookmakers run unnamed infographics or publish news about the brightest winnings, what we shared with you.

Article author: Evgeniy