"in lieu of betting cards, to repeat number selections played in the appropriate games. The replay feature makes use of either of the two large data matrix barcodes found on Connecticut Lottery tickets. They contain information such as the game played and the numbers selected.. The Connecticut Lottery offers numerous scratchcard games with price points of $1, $2, $3, $5, $10, $20, and $30, with differing themes and prize levels. Beginning with the April 8, 2013 launch of its 19th version of ""Win for Life"", all prizes in Connecticut Lottery scratch games are paid in lump sum (some games' top"
"popular draw, with around 15 to 45 million tickets sold each draw. The most winners for a single jackpot was 133 in January 1995, each player winning £122,510. In the draw, six numbered balls are drawn without replacement from a set of 59 balls numbered from 1 to 59 (formerly 1 to 49 until October 2015). A further ""Bonus Ball"" is also drawn, which affects only players who match five numbers. There are six prize tiers, which are awarded to players who match at least two of the six drawn numbers, with prizes increasing for matching more of the drawn"
"game will have to play 210 combinations, while a full wheel with 15 numbers in the same lottery will require 5005 combinations! In a famous occurrence, a Polish-Irish businessman named Stefan Klincewicz bought up 80% of the 1,947,792 combinations available at the Irish Lottery. He and his associates paid less than one million Irish pounds while the jackpot stood at 1.7 million pounds. The syndicate did have a ticket with the winning numbers. However, so did two other players, and the jackpot was split three ways. With the ""Match 4"" and ""Match 5"" prizes, though, Klincewicz's syndicate made a small"
"state. The prize fund is 45% of revenue, with the remaining 15% going towards running costs and profits for the lottery organisers and ticket sellers. The odds of specific combinations occurring in the United Kingdom national lottery are as follows: In February 2011 the media tycoon Richard Desmond announced the launch of a new Health Lottery, with the aim of raising a minimum of £50 million each year for health-related charities. Tickets cost £1 each and 20p in the pound goes to the charities involved. The UK Postcode Lottery is in aid of charity, and works by using an entrant's"
"lowered to £22 million. If nobody wins the jackpot when it is £22 million or more, it will roll to the next draw one final time. Then, the jackpot must be won: if no-one matches all six main numbers, the jackpot prize will be shared by the players with the most winning numbers. From October 2015 the total prize fund is 47.50% of draw sales in a normal week, including the raffle. The three-ball prize winners, with odds of 96 to 1, receive £25 each; the two-ball prize winners receive a free £2 entry. 17.82% of the sales are divided"
"with a minimum of two games. Five numbers from 35 are drawn, plus either ""red"" or ""black"". A jackpot (minimum $50,000) is won for matching all five numbers plus the correct colour, with fixed minor prizes down to four numbers, or three with the correct colour. First drawn on 1 June 2009, and similar to Lotterywest's ""Cash 3"" game above: a three-digit number is drawn each night at 6:30pm. Games cost $1.10 each (including agent's commission). Exact matches of the number win a fixed $500 prize; matches of the number in ""any order"" win a fixed $20 prize. Unlike Cash"
"numbers. The players who match all six drawn numbers win equal shares of the jackpot; the chance of doing so is 1 in 45,057,474. Similarly, if four or five balls are matched, the relevant prize is divided equally between all who match that many balls. If no player matches all six numbers, the jackpot is added to that of the next Lotto draw—a ""rollover"". This accumulation was limited to three consecutive draws until 10 February 2011, when it was increased to four. Rollovers are frequent, with for example 20 Wednesday (39%) and 13 Saturday rollovers (25%) in 2011 (fewer tickets"
"and requires the selection of numbers in a 3x3 grid, with the centre square provided ""free"", and five numbers to be selected in each other square, starting from numbers 1–5 in the top-left, up to 36–40 in the bottom-right. Prizes are won for how many lines of three numbers (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) are matched, with a jackpot (minimum $9,000) for matching all eight numbers and therefore, all eight lines. Known as ""Cross and Match"" in Intralot's licence, and the official rules. First drawn on 1 June 2009, and drawn daily at 7:30pm. Games cost $0.55 each (including agent's commission)"
"It is possible to enter two or three results for one or more matches, in which case the entry is treated as a number of separate entries for all possible combinations given; marking two possible results for each of five matches and all three possible results for each of four matches will result in submitting 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 = 32 × 81 = 2592 different entries. All entries submitting 13 correct predictions will be declared to have won the top prize; sometimes, prizes for fewer correct"
"potential prize in the safe is £100,000, obtained by accumulating the maximum in Rounds 1 and 2, answering all four questions correctly, and taking the money on each. Each teammate is given a button that controls one of the two still-closed locks on the safe. When the countdown clock reaches 30 seconds, it disappears from the team's view. Both teammates must continue the countdown in their heads; once they believe it has reached zero, they must push their buttons within the length of their window of opportunity to open the locks. The National Lottery draw is held after both contestants"
"National Lottery describes Hotpicks as ""five games in one"", because the player has a choice of five ways of playing the game, each offering different odds and payouts. The entry fee to the Lotto Hotpicks draw is £1 per board. The Thunderball jackpot draw requires players to pick five main numbers from 1 to 39 and one 'Thunderball' number from 1 to 14 for an entry fee of £1 per board. Prizes may be won by matching the main numbers, with matches of the Thunderball number winning bigger prizes. The top prize, now £500,000, is won by matching all five"
"on the player's ticket match those produced in the official drawing (regardless of the order in which the numbers are drawn), then the player is a jackpot winner. For such a lottery, the chance of being a jackpot winner is 1 in 13,983,816. In bonusball lotteries where the bonus ball is compulsory, the odds are often even lower. In the Mega Millions multi-state lottery in the United States, 5 numbers are drawn from a group of 75 and 1 number is drawn from a group of 15, and a player must match all 6 balls to win the jackpot prize."
"""quick pick"". Prizes are won for matching the four corners, or a diagonal cross, within the first 25 numbers, or a ""full house"" within 50 numbers (with odds of 1:212,085). A jackpot ""snowball"" prize (minimum $500,000) is won if a ""full house"" is made within 44 numbers (odds of 1:14,638,344). In the original incarnation, the diagonal cross was allowed to be made within 27 numbers, the corners within 28, and further numbers would be drawn until the ""full house"" prize was won. First drawn on 1 July 2008, and drawn daily at 7pm. Games cost $1.10 each (including agent's commission),"
"so that both the jackpot odds and the overall odds of winning can be controlled. In either game, all six numbers must be matched to win or share a jackpot; however, matching the number drawn from the second drum automatically wins. The order in which the five ""regular"" numbers are drawn does not matter. A player holding a ticket with 1-2-3-4-5 in one game matches all five regular numbers if the order in which the machine selects these numbers is 5-2-4-3-1. To win a jackpot, the player must match not only the first five numbers drawn (in any order) but"
"49. If a ticket matches all six numbers, the jackpot prize of at least $5,000,000 is won. A bonus number is also drawn, and if a player's ticket matches five numbers and the bonus number, the player wins the ""second prize"" which is usually between $100,000 and $500,000. Should more than one player win the top or second prize, it is split amongst them. Lesser prizes are also awarded if one matches at least three numbers, or two numbers plus the bonus number. If the top prize is not won, the jackpot prize increases for the next draw. As many"
"the second (key number). The key number also serves as return number. The tickets can be bought from Monday to Saturday in over eleven-thousand locations in Spain and cost €1.50 per grid. By selecting six to eleven numbers in the first grid you can make multiple (6 to 462) bets with the same ticket. Drawings are held every Sunday at 13:00 (GMT+1). Five numbers are drawn at random from 1-54, and then another one for the key number from 0-9. Prizes are awarded to tickets whose numbers match the drawn ones. First prize is for a perfect match (5+1), second"
"are based on their playing postcode, which is most commonly their home postcode. A given postcode in Britain will usually represent a group of houses. If more than one resident has tickets in a winning postcode, all playing neighbours collect prizes. In accordance with restrictions under the Gambling Act 2005, the maximum amount which can be won by a single ticket is £400,000 or 10% of the total draw proceeds. A minimum of 32% of the ticket price from players' £10 monthly subscriptions goes to various trusts, which in turn provide funding to charities and community projects across Great Britain"
"next seven days draws and you must play a minimum of two sets to participate. Two bonus numbers are drawn after the main eight numbers, giving ten numbers drawn in total. These numbers are used to determine other prizes. To win the jackpot, you must match all eight regular numbers: There is also a computerised racing game is known as Trackside, where players can also bet on a Win, Place, Quinella or Trifecta, and recently First Fours. Trackside has twelve runners in different racing modes: Thoroughbreds, Harness, Hurdles and Greyhounds. The Trackside odds are fixed and do not change regardless"
"match 6 numbers out of 90. Should a player match all of them, he/she wins the jackpot. Besides the jackpot, SuperEnalotto has five prize categories that players can win. The ""Jolly"" number gives an additional chance to those who have matched 5 numbers. If they also match the ""Jolly"" number, they'll win a higher ""5+1"" prize. The Jolly number only affects the second prizes and not the jackpot. One must match at least 2 numbers to win. The odds of winning for each category are: The ""SuperStar"" number is an additional number which costs extra to play. Under the old"
"the first number in order to start winning prizes"" (ranging from £2 to £500,000), which meant that 90% of players lost as soon as the first ball was drawn. Draws took place on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Originally, the draw was televised on both Wednesdays and Saturdays, but was latterly only televised on Saturdays, when the Wednesday draw took place prior to the live TV show and the winning dream number was announced during the show. All money raised for good causes from Dream Number went towards the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. The National Lottery closed"
"UK. A group of nine (or ranging from five to ten, varying among versions) contestants work as a team to try and win as much money as possible. If a person answers the question correctly, the next stage in the chain is reached. If a person answers the question wrong, the money is lost and the chain starts again. A player can ""bank"" before their question to save the money, but the chain must be started again. If there are nine correct answers in a row without anyone banking, the maximum money amount is added to the jackpot and the"
"The chance of winning the jackpot is 1 in 258,890,850. The odds of winning can also be reduced by increasing the group from which numbers are drawn. In the SuperEnalotto of Italy, players must match 6 numbers out of 90. The chance of winning the jackpot is 1 in 622,614,630. Most lotteries give lesser prizes for matching just some of the winning numbers, with a lesser prize for fewer matches. Although none of these additional prizes affect the chances of winning the jackpot, they do improve the odds of winning something and therefore add a little to the value of"
"correctly in a round. At maximum level, it takes 66 seconds before the ball stops passing through the laser line. This process repeats itself until all the categories have been used up. In the quick-fire parts, one correct answer wins £1,000, two correct answers win £2,000 and three correct answers win £3,000; three further correct answers win £5,000 for the first two categories and £10,000 for the second two, meaning that there is £30,000 on offer. Once this process has repeated itself four times, the National Lottery draws are run. Nick asks quick-fire questions to the UK team, with each"
"or more winning numbers on a ticket matching the seven numbers drawn qualifies the buyer for a cash prize. The prize money escalates with the increase in numbers matched. The maximum allowed matching numbers is six. Thus, if six numbers on the TOTO ticket matches the six numbers drawn, the jackpot (Group 1) prize is won. There are 4 different ways to place bets: The minimum bet amount is S$1.00 per bet ticket. Bets can also be placed by bet amounts. The computer automatically sells the buyer the maximum number of bets for the bet type placed. The balance amount"
"finds ""c"" = 3, which uses up the final unit; this establishes formula_17, and the remaining values ""c"" will be the maximal ones with formula_18, namely . Thus we have found the 5-combination }. For each of the formula_19 lottery combinations ""c"" < ""c"" < ""c"" < ""c"" < ""c"" < ""c"" < , there is a list number ""N"" between 0 and formula_20 which can be found by adding Suppose you want to find a position of a British National Lottery result 3,6,15,17,18,35 in a list of possible results. Excel function COMBIN(49,6) would show that number of results is"
"bonus ball from a separate pool of formula_35 balls is: formula_36 The general formula for formula_13 matching balls in a formula_11 choose formula_12 lottery with no bonus ball from a separate pool of formula_35 balls is: formula_41 It is a hard (and often open) problem to calculate the minimum number of tickets one needs to purchase to guarantee that at least one of these tickets matches at least 2 numbers. In the 5-from-90 lotto, the minimum number of tickets that can guarantee a ticket with at least 2 matches is 100. As a discrete probability space, the probability of any"
"arranged on the stage, each of which produces a different musical tone when it lights up. The goal is to replicate several sequences of tones. All five panels have separate buttons. The five family members each stand at a different panel and must replicate five sequences by pushing their buttons. The first sequence has three tones, and each successive one has two more tones than the last. Each correct sequence puts one digit from the family's total into their final winnings, proceeding from left to right. For example, a family with a total of £46,437 would win £4, £46, £464,"
"option to have the terminal randomly select the numbers in both fields, which is known as ""Quick Pick"" in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, ""Quick Pik"" in Georgia[1], and ""Easy Pick"" in Virginia. Matching all five numbers in the main field plus the Cash Ball wins, or shares (""split-prize liability""), the equivalent of $1,000-per-day-for-life, or $7,000,000 cash, at the winner's option. Second prize, however, can have multiple winners of $1,000-per-week-for-life and/or $1,000,000 cash. New Jersey Lottery regulations require that players choose either the annuity or cash option when playing. First- and second-prize winners who chose"
"does not allow Daily Million Draws to be viewed by the public or streamed online. Introduced in October 2009, All or Nothing is the National Lottery's first daily draw game. Players choose 12 numbers from 24; if they get all the numbers correct, or none of the numbers correct, they win €500,000—a 1 in 1,352,078 chance of victory. The game has additional prizes of €5,000 for Match 11, €25 for Match 10, €10 for Match 9, and €4 for Match 8. Tickets cost €2 per line. The numbers are announced on RTÉ Two each night and also displayed through an"
"increases when there is no top-prize winner (see below for information on how the Mega Millions jackpot is funded). Reflecting common practice among American lotteries, the jackpot is advertised as a nominal value of annual installments. A cash value option (the usual choice), when chosen by a jackpot winner, pays the approximate present value of the installments. Mega Millions' previous format began on October 19, 2013; its first drawing was three days later. The current version of Mega Millions requires players to match 5 of 70 white balls, ""and"" the gold-colored ""MegaBall"" from a second field, of 25 numbers ("
"Lottery mathematics Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based heavily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold way and combinations without replacement. In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1-49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner—regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816. The chance of winning can be demonstrated as follows: The first number drawn has a 1 in 49"
"to match five numbers from 1 through 69, plus a Powerball number from 1 through 26. A ticket that matches all six numbers wins the jackpot. Jackpot amounts begin at $40 million and grow with each drawing in which the jackpot is not won. Top-prize Powerball winners can choose cash in lieu of annuity payments. The jackpot is pari-mutuel, meaning that if multiple tickets match all six numbers, each of them receives an equal share of the total jackpot. A basic Powerball ticket costs $2. The ""Power Play"" option adds $1 to the price of each ticket in a given"
"all six main numbers after the fifth rollover, the jackpot is shared between every cash prize winner. This is called a ""Jackpot Rolldown"". Every cash prize therefore increases substantially.(estimated amounts shown in brackets). Expected jackpots: £3.8m minimum on Saturday and £2.0m minimum on Wednesday. Lotto Hotpicks uses the main Lotto draw for its numbers but is a different game. The player chooses both the numbers ""and"" the number of draw balls they want to try to match, up to a maximum of five. However, if the player does not match ""all"" the numbers chosen, they are not a winner. The"