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The internet is an excellent thing. You can now do all sorts of things from the comfort of your own home whenever you used to have to go to a store or put something in the post.
I now rent my DVDs online and they arrive over the post and I get my weekly groceries delivered to my door having ordered them from my number of favorites online.
The net makes things convenient. So when I forgot to buy my lottery ticket again and missed out on a small prize, I turned to the net for help. I was surprised at what I found!
There was as I expected the ability to purchase lottery agent tickets online from the UK’s National Lottery website. Great! No longer did I have to fiddle around with cash or get soaked in the rain going to the shop.
In fact they take care of everything – take the cash from your banking account for the subscriptions automatically so that you never miss a draw, check your numbers for you without fail and pay you any winnings!
Paying you your winnings probably will not sound like a problem – but since 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 great service – convenient, easy and also fun.
Then a few months ago I found the next step 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 by having an economics degree might! But I went over the numbers to check anyway. I was impressed.
They operate syndicates with 49 members in each. Then they do something clever – they fix among the six numbers in order that each of the 49 numbers is covered and then with 5 other randomly generated numbers they generate 44 separate lines.
This is clever – it implies that you will find 44 entries and effectively the syndicate only must match 5 of the 6 lottery draw numbers to win the jackpot – since the sixth ball will always match.
But it is cleverer than that because the syndicate also wins more than the jackpot – another of the 44 lines will win 5 plus the bonus ball and then of-course another 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 could 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 exact same trick with the EuroMillions draw. In the event that you are not acquainted with this it’s as big as many of the multi-state lotteries in the USA. Why? Because 9 countries in Europe are playing it! And even more want to join in!
It is the biggest tax-free lump-sum national lottery on the globe!
If you were watching the news earlier in 2006 you will have seen which it rose to an incredible Ł125m rollover (yes – that is in GBP not dollars or euros!)Being a part on this lottery syndicate increases your chances of winning by an incredible 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 web can make it simpler for you.
