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The internet is a wonderful thing. You may now do all kinds of things from the comfort of your own home when you used to have to go to a store or put something in the post.
I now rent my DVDs online and they arrive throughout the post and I get my weekly groceries delivered to my door having ordered them from my list of favorites online.
The internet makes things convenient. So when I forgot to buy my lottery ticket again and missed out on a small prize, I turned to the web for help. I was surprised at what I found!
There was as I expected the ability to purchase lottery tickets online from the UK’s National Lottery website. Great! No longer did I have to fiddle around with cash or get soaked within the rain going to the store.
In fact they take care of all of it – take the money through your checking account for the subscriptions automatically in order that you never miss a draw, check your numbers for you without fail and pay you any winnings!
Paying you your winnings probably doesn’t sound like a problem – but considering that the UK National Lottery began in 1994, unclaimed prizes have accumulated to more than Ł650 million [$1.17 billion]!
Checking that your numbers have won is probably the most useful service of all – because in the event that you don’t claim it you do not get it!
A good service – convenient, simple and fun.
Then a few months ago I found the next phase on – an online lottery syndicate system!
Sure – the official national lottery website offers a syndicate management tool – although not like this one.
I looked at it rather sceptically as anyone with the economics degree might! But I went through the numbers to check anyway. I was impressed.
They operate syndicates with 49 members in each. Then they do something clever – they fix one of the six numbers in order that each of the 49 numbers is covered and after that with 5 other randomly generated numbers they can make 44 separate lines.
This really is clever – it means that you will find 44 entries and effectively the syndicate only must match 5 of the 6 lottery draw numbers to win the jackpot – because the sixth ball will always match.
But it’s cleverer than that since the syndicate also wins more than the jackpot – another of the 44 lines will win 5 plus the bonus ball and after that of-course the additional 42 lines also win by matching 5 numbers! Add all those multiple wins together and divide through the number in the syndicate and also you win more than you might have done if you played solo!
In fact your odds of winning increases by 702% in the UK National Lottery Lotto draw!
And they have done the same trick with the EuroMillions draw. In the event you are not acquainted with this it is as big as many of the multi-state lotteries in the USA. Why? Because 9 countries in Europe are playing it! And Discover More want to join in!
It is the largest tax-free lump-sum national lottery on earth!
If you were watching the news earlier in 2006 you will have seen that it rose to an amazing Ł125m rollover (yes – that’s in GBP not dollars or euros!)Being a part on this lottery syndicate increases your chances of winning by a staggering 3600%! Enhancing the odds of winning any prize to 1 in 10 and it means you can win a prize by matching just one ball!
So next time you are waiting in line to buy your lottery ticket, running the risk of losing it, or forgetting to check whether you’ve won, think of how the net could make it simpler for you.
