Australian lotteries: characteristics, participation rules and reviews

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Regular "Monday, Wednesday and Saturday Games" (MSW Lotto) were launched in the 70s. Today, in terms of Australian lottery entry rules, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday lotto is exactly the same, only Saturday lotto offers higher jackpots. The form of the game varies from state to state, as does brand affiliation - for example, games labeled TattsLotto are played in Victoria, ACT are played in the Northern Territory and Tasmania, X Lotto are in South Australia, and Gold Lotto is anchored in Queensland and is simply referred to as "Monday, Wednesday and Saturday Lotto" in Western Australia and New South Wales. Lottery fans around the world rate the Australian lottery very highly, with mostly positive reviews.

In 1994, Oz Lotto was launched, offering the largest rates in Australian history, and then Powerball Lotto appeared in 1996.

MSW Lotto

"Monday and Wednesday Lotto" - Traditional Australiana lottery played in every state and territory. It began life as a game in New South Wales operated by the New South Wales Lotteries from its first draw on 5 November 1979. Her current logo (promoted in her home state) features a large red bingo ball with a one. NSW Lotto was the only Australian lottery played in the state until the introduction of Oz Lotto in 1994 - New South Wales was the last state to join Saturday Lotto in 2000.

NSW Lotto began expanding its expansion to other states on May 1, 2006, when commission lotteries in South Australia and Western Australia began selling tickets, pushing SA Lotto out of that region. From October 13, 2008, Tattersall began releasing "Monday and Wednesday Lotto" on its territory, having previously lost the right to launch the Tattslotto game.

In South Australia this game is known as X Lotto, its historical brand in the region. The name has been reverted since May 17, 2010, the date the new lottery system was introduced, one of the changes being the ability to recognize crosses (as opposed to vertical markings) on the lotto entry form again.

If we talk about the characteristics of the Australian lottery MSW Lotto, it is worth mentioning that since April 2004 it has been identical to the Saturday lotto: six winning numbers and two additional numbers are made up of 45 balls, and five winning parts are identical to each other. Entries cost $0.55 per game + agent commission.

Oz Lotto

Oz Lotto is Tattersall's National Lottery Game which takes place on Tuesday evenings. It was introduced on February 26, 1994 and was the first full-fledged Australian lottery at a time when New South Wales was not part of the Saturday Lotto "sphere of influence". Recordings cost $1.20 per game + agents commission. If we talk about Australian lotteries in Russia, then everything is simple - you can sign up for any of them via the Internet by buying a ticket and playing online.

Rules

Initially, the game was exactly the same as Saturday's lottery, requiring six numbers to be drawn from 45. However, starting October 18, 2005, a seventh number was drawn, greatly increasing the chances of winning the first prize. In line with this change, the Oz Lotto branding changed in many states to emphasize the presence of the seventh ball (including changing names to such as OZ Lotto Super 7 in Thatta and Oz 7 Lotto in Queensland). However, as of 2012, the game reverted to the Oz Lotto branding in those regions. Oz Lotto guarantees a minimum prize pool of $2 million, which is less than the US and UK lotteries, but still not bad.

Oz Lotto currently holds the record for the largest Australian lottery jackpot. Originally guaranteed $100 million, four winners shared a $111,972,151.04 Division 1 pull in the November 6, 2012 draw.

Powerball

Powerball - Australian lottery,modeled after the highly successful American Powerball game. The game is operated by Tattersall's. It is intended for all states of the Australian lotto block. The draws take place on Thursday nights, starting with the first draw on 23 May 1996. Each Powerball game costs $1 + agent commission, while most states that require standard games buy four at a time.

How to play

To win the first division, the player must have all the correct numbers in his game, and also choose the correct Powerball. With automatic selection, the computer randomly distributes six numbers among the players, as well as a Powerball for each payline. In this kind of Australian lottery, cheating is simply impossible, because everything is determined by a computer system.

On April 13, 2018, the Powerball format was changed to 7 regular balls that randomly spawn from barrel 35, and a Powerball that randomly spawns from barrel 20 (originally 6 balls randomly spawned from barrel 40). The new format contains nine sections, increasing the odds of winning the total prize (originally 1 in 78 per game), but decreasing the chances of winning the jackpot (originally 1 in 76,767,600 per game).

SA Lotteries Keno

SA Lotteies Keno runs on an ongoing basis with one draw every 3.5 minutes, with draws being closed 40 seconds before each draw. The results are displayed on monitors located in most lottery outlets. In the SouthAustralian Keno can be played using all numbers from 1 to 10. It offers one jackpot win for matching all numbers against a Spot 10 ticket with a $1 million minimum prize pool (which has been changed from a $1 million fixed prize to a jackpot prize in February 2001).

The biggest jackpot in history

Australia's top draw so far is the biggest Australian jackpot of all time, won during the Oz Lotto draw on November 6, 2012, when four winners shared a $111,972,151.04 jackpot.

Prior to this, the Oz Lotto jackpot was $106 million, won in 2009 and split between two winners.

At the same time, Australia's Powerball Lotto holds the highest jackpot with one winner. Its value was $40 million.

While the odds of making the Saturday Lotto are eight million to one, back in 2009, 27 lucky winners guessed the correct numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 23, additional numbers 26 and 41) and split shares in the winnings.

Top Australian Lottery Winners

The odds of winning the lottery one day may sound fantastic, but for a few lucky Australians, even that wasn't enough, so they won twice!

In February 2015, a report appeared about a group of accomplices who managed towin two separate dividend prizes worth $866,108, taking over $1.7 million in combined winnings, or $157,474 if split between each of the 11 group members.

Not a bad result, especially considering that the second ticket was actually bought by accident - the informal leader of their group actually intended to buy tickets for two separate draws.

There were three such incidents in 2013: one person from Brisbane and two people from Melbourne managed to defy fate by winning the Saturday Lotto twice. The Brisbane man played his usual numbers after purchasing the ticket, but then forgot whether he did or not, and so went back to playing again. The result was two wins totaling $820,000 - a total of $1.64 million!

Melbourne woman wins two Saturday lotto jackpots, earning $835, 149.68.

In April 2013, headlines appeared in the newspapers of a man from Melbourne who won the lotto twice within six weeks. The first win allowed him to help pay off the mortgage, and the second he allocated to renovate the house - in total, he won $ 1.2 million.

In 2008, another person from Victoria, who wished to remain anonymous, managed to win the impossible Lotto three times in a row!

Finally, we come to a heartbreaking story about a man who is arguably the luckiest person in Australian lottery history.

Die, resurrect and win the lottery

While some break the laws of fate by winning lotteriestwice or even thrice, others die, come back to life and the first thing… also win the lottery. It may sound incredible, but at least one such case is documented. It is indeed because of stories like this that the Australian lotteries continue to be so popular.

Bill Morgan was a simple trucker, and one day, delivering a valuable cargo, he got into a traffic accident. In critical condition, Morgan was given a drug that caused a negative reaction in the body, provoking a heart attack, which ended in clinical death for the trucker. It lasted, however, only 14 minutes.

Later, he spent 12 days in a coma, after which he woke up, filled with an unprecedented thirst for life and new achievements. He immediately proposed to his girlfriend, and she agreed, making Bill the happiest person in the world. In honor of this, he decided to buy a lottery ticket…

When Morgan won a new car in the lottery, the local news took a huge interest in him. They asked him to repeat the purchase of the lottery ticket, and Morgan agreed, after which he immediately won a huge amount of $ 250,000 - and it all caught on camera!