The regular "Monday, Wednesday and Saturday Games" (MSW Lotto) were launched in the 70s. Today, in terms of the rules for the participation of the Australian lotteries, lottos on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are absolutely identical, only Saturday lottos offer higher jackpots. The form of the game varies from state to state, as well as branding - for example, games designated as TattsLotto are played in Victoria, ACT in the Northern Territory and Tasmania, X Lotto are in South Australia, and Gold Lotto is assigned to Queensland is simply referred to as “Lotto on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday” in Western Australia and New South Wales. Lotto lovers all over the world highly value the Australian lottery, reviews about it are mostly positive.
In 1994, Oz Lotto was launched, offering the largest bets in Australian history, and then in 1996 Powerball Lotto appeared.
Msw lotto
Monday and Wednesday Lotto is a traditional Australian lottery that is played in all states and territories. She began her life as a game in New South Wales, managed by the New South Wales Lotteries since her first draw on November 5, 1979. Its current logo (promoted in its home state) has a large red lotto ball with a unit. NSW Lotto was the only Australian lottery to be played in the state before 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 into other states on May 1, 2006, when commission lotteries in South Australia and Western Australia began selling tickets, displacing SA Lotto from the region. On October 13, 2008, Tattersall began releasing "Lotto on Monday and Wednesday" 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 was returned from May 17, 2010 - the date when the new lottery system was introduced, one of the changes of which was the ability to recognize crosses again (as opposed to vertical marking) on the lotto entry form.
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 Saturday's lotto: six winning numbers and two additional numbers are made up of 45 goals, and five winning parts are identical to each other. Entries cost $ 0.55 per game + agent commission.
Oz lotto
Oz Lotto is a national lottery game run by Tattersall's on Tuesday night. It was introduced on February 26, 1994, and became the first full-fledged Australian lottery at a time when New South Wales was not part of Saturday’s “lotto” sphere of influence. Entries cost $ 1.20 per game + agent commission. If we talk about the 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 the Saturday lottery, requiring six numbers to be selected from 45. However, starting on October 18, 2005, the seventh number was dialed, significantly increasing the chances of winning the first prize. Consistent with this change, Oz Lotto branding has changed in many states to emphasize the seventh ball (including a name change to OZ Lotto Super 7 in Tatta and Oz 7 Lotto in Queensland). However, since 2012, the game has returned to Oz Lotto branding in these regions. Oz Lotto guarantees a minimum prize pool of $ 2 million, which is less than in the American and British lotteries, but also not bad.
Oz Lotto is currently holding the record for Australia's largest jackpot lottery. Initially, it was guaranteed in the amount of 100 million US dollars, four winners shared the pool of Division 1 in the amount of 111,972,151.04 US dollars in the draw on November 6, 2012.
Powerball
Powerball is an Australian lottery modeled on the highly successful American Powerball game. The game is controlled by Tattersall's. It is designed for all states of the Australian Lotto Block. The draw takes place on Thursday evening, starting with the first draw held on May 23, 1996. Each Powerball game costs $ 1 + agent commission, while most states requiring 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, as well as choose the right Powerball. With automatic selection, the computer randomly distributes six numbers between the players, as well as a Powerball for each game line. In this kind of Australian lottery, cheating is simply impossible, because everything is determined by the computer system.
On April 13, 2018, the Powerball format was changed to 7 regular balls that randomly arise from the barrel 35, as well as a Powerball ball that randomly appears from the barrel 20 (initially 6 balls randomly appeared from the barrel 40). The new format contains nine sections, increasing the chances of winning the general bonus (initially 1 out of 78 in one game), but decreasing the chances of winning the jackpot (initially 1 out of 76,767,600 in one game).
SA Lotteries Keno
SA Lotteies Keno operates on an ongoing basis in one draw every 3.5 minutes, with draws closing 40 seconds before each draw. The results are displayed on monitors located in most lottery outlets. You can play South Australian Keno using all numbers from 1 to 10. It offers one jackpot prize for matching all numbers with a Spot 10 ticket with a minimum prize pool of $ 1 million (which was changed from a fixed prize of $ 1 million for the jackpot prize in February 2001).
The biggest jackpot ever
The main result of the Australian lotteries at the moment is the largest Australian jackpot of all time, won during the Oz Lotto draw on November 6, 2012, when four winners shared a jackpot of $ 111,972,151.04.
Prior to that, the Oz Lotto jackpot was $ 106 million, was won in 2009 and split between the two winners.
At the same time, the Australian Powerball Lotto is the highest jackpot with one winner. Its cost was 40 million dollars.
While the chances of getting into the Saturday lotto are eight million to one, as early as 2009, 27 lucky ones guessed the correct numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 23, additional numbers 26 and 41) and divided the shares in the gain.
The main winners of the Australian lotteries
The chance of winning the lottery one day might seem too fantastic, but for a few lucky Australians, even this was not enough, and so they won twice!
In February 2015, a message appeared about a group of accomplices who managed to win two separate dividend prizes worth $ 866,108, taking combined winnings of more than $ 1.7 million or $ 157,474, if they are divided between each of 11 members groups.
A good result, especially when you consider that the second ticket was actually bought by accident - the informal leader of their group actually intended to buy tickets for two separate raffles.
In 2013, there were three such incidents: one person from Brisbane and two people from Melbourne managed to challenge fate by winning twice on Saturday's lotto. A man from Brisbane played his regular numbers after buying a ticket, but then forgot whether he did it or not, and therefore returned to the game again. The result was two wins in the amount of $ 820,000 - a total of $ 1.64 million!
A woman from Melbourne managed to win two jackpots on Saturday's lotto, earning $ 835,149.68.
In April 2013, the headlines of one person from Melbourne, who twice won a lotto in six weeks, appeared in newspapers. The first victory allowed him to help pay off the mortgage, and the second he allocated for home repairs - in total, he won $ 1.2 million.
In 2008, another person from Victoria, who wished to remain anonymous, managed to achieve an impossible win of lotto three times in a row!
Finally, we come to the heartbreaking story of a man who is perhaps the luckiest man in the history of Australian lotteries.
Die, resurrect and win the lottery
While some break the laws of fate, winning lotteries twice or even thrice, others die, come back to life and the first thing ... they also win the lottery. This may sound incredible, but at least one such case is documented. Truly because of stories like this, 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 a critical condition, Morgan was given a medicine that caused a negative reaction of the body, provoking a heart attack that ended in clinical death for the trucker. True, it lasted only 14 minutes.
He later 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 man in the world. In honor of this, he decided to buy a lottery ticket ...
When Morgan won the new car in the lottery, local news showed an unprecedented interest in him. They asked him to repeat the purchase of the lottery ticket, and Morgan agreed, after which he immediately won a huge sum of $ 250,000 - and all this got on camera!