New Year's Eve is a time when everyone believes in miracles, although they are no longer children. This is a great time to try your luck in lotteries and believe in magic. A lottery ticket is a great gift for the holiday, because on New Year 's day the biggest jackpots and various prizes are raffled.
The Russian Lotto lottery has prepared a surprise for everyone, namely in the New Year draw prizes worth one billion rubles will be drawn. Billion lottery tickets are on sale now and will continue until 09:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on 01/01/2018. Of course, you should hurry to get a ticket, because you can buy a winning chance earlier.
Facts about the game "Russian Lotto"
Russian Lotto is the favorite game of many, the first circulation of which took place about 24 years ago, millions of people became winners, and over the past five years, more than 7 billion rubles have been played.
The Russian Lotto lottery is trusted by many due to the fact that it has been going on for many years, and the broadcasts are always on TV. Other lotteries cannot boast of this.
The largest jackpot in Russia was recently played in November 2017 in this lottery, and it amounted to more than 500 million rubles.
New Year prizes from Russian Lotto
The prize fund of the New Year festive lottery will be more than 1 billion rubles. The lottery has prepared many prizes, among which the following are drawn in the 1212 New Year's draw:
- jackpot (it is expected to be more than 500 million rubles). The main prize can be won by one or several people;
- 50 houses;
- multiple cash prizes.
The billion lottery jackpot will be played forcibly. If the main winner is not determined, then all funds will be distributed among all the winning tickets, which means that all cash prizes will increase.
The live broadcast of the "Billion New Year's Eve" lottery draw from "Russian Lotto" will be held on January 1, 2018 at 20.00 on the NTV channel. In addition to the draw itself, there will be a whole show with interesting stories and people, winners of the lottery.
The good news is that the winner will be the owner of every second ticket, since the chance to win is 1 to 2.37. At the end, only two barrels will remain in the bag.
How to win?
What needs to be done to win the billion dollar New Year's lottery? Of course, you need to purchase a lottery ticket. The ticket price is only 100 rubles. Such a small amount by today's standards can make someone a millionaire.
The lottery ticket has two fields, each contains 15 numbers, i.e. a total of 30 numbers in one ticket. All tickets already have ready-made combinations, which are all different for one run. Replacement of any numbers is not provided.
To increase the chances of winning, you should buy more tickets, preferably with different combinations, so that they do not repeat. For example, the Stoloto website has a special function, and you can buy tickets with all numbers from 1 to 90.
Rules of the game
The rules of the lottery are known to many, but to refresh the memory, recall.
The prize drawing is held in the television studio, where there are spectators and the drawing commission. The commission is needed to check the presence of all barrels from 1 to 90 and complete the drawing by signing the protocol and confirming the correctness of the draw.
After checking the barrels by the drawing commission, the leader puts all the barrels in a special bag and takes them out one by one, announcing each number. There are several rounds in the lottery, 3 main and additional:
- First tour. Winning tickets are those in which 5 numbers will be closed in one of the horizontal lines before everyone else.
- The second round. The winners are those whose tickets match all 15 numbers in the same playing field with elongated barrels before everyone else. The jackpot is won by someone who has 15 numbers out of 30 in the ticket matching the first 15 moves.
- Third round. Winning is taken by those in whose tickets all 30 numbers matched before everyone else.
- Optional tour. It doesn’t always happen, it is called "Kubyshka". To become the winner of this tour, it is necessary that all the non-lost numbers are in the same field. Prizes are also raffled off by ticket numbers.
The largest prizes win in the first two rounds.
Where to buy tickets?
The main question is where to buy tickets to take part in the New Year draw. Tickets for the New Year run from the Russian Lottery billion lottery can be purchased in several ways:
- On the Stoloto website. To do this, you must register on the site and buy a ticket using payment systems Yandex.Money, WebMoney, bank cards, Qiwi, etc. On the site you can choose tickets with your favorite numbers or all numbers from 1 to 90.
- Through the regular Stoloto mobile app. You just need to install the mobile application on your phone.
- By sending a message to the short number 9999, which should contain the text "RL". So far, you can send a message only from the phones of Russian operators.
- It is traditionally purchased at retail outlets and networks (at Russian Post offices, at Svyaznoy, MegaFon and Euroset mobile phone stores, at the Baltbet betting office, at the Balt Lotto lottery network, at Rostelecom branches) or at the lottery kiosks.
Where can I find out about the results of the draw?
If there is no time to watch the drawing on TV, then the results can be found in the following ways:
- On the website "Stoloto" and "Lotonews." The results are published within ten days after the appropriate circulation. You can check in the circulation archive or by ticket number.
- By phone * 777 or phone number +7 499 27-027-27.
- Through the mobile app.
- At points of sale, lottery kiosks.
- In the newspaper Arguments and Facts, the results are published every week on Wednesday.
How to get a win?
Methods of obtaining depend on the amount of winnings:
- At points of sale and lottery kiosks, you can get a win up to 2 thousand rubles.
- You can transfer a prize to the Stoloto wallet, which is less than 100 thousand rubles.
- You can transfer to a personal account a win, which is more than 100 thousand rubles. To do this, send a specific package of documents to the address of the Stoloto trading house.
- A win of more than 1 million rubles is paid only in person.
New Year billion in 2017
Last year, the amount of a billion rubles was played for the first time in the State Lottery “4 out of 20”. The New Year show was held on December 31, 2016 on the NTV channel. The result was: 9 new millionaires and more than 1 million winners. The total prize was about 300 million rubles, but the winner of the main prize was not determined. The super prize went on to the next draw.
Finally
Whether or not to play, try your luck or not is up to you. But when, if not in the New Year, believe a miracle? In addition, this is a great opportunity to have fun on January 1 of the new 2018.