Online Lottery Guides
The web is an excellent thing. You may now do all sorts of things from the comfort of your own home when you used to have to go to a shop 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 web 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 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 store.
In fact they take care of all of it - take the money from your savings account for the subscriptions automatically to ensure that you never miss a draw, check your numbers for you without fail and pay you any winnings!
Paying you your winnings probably does not sound like a big deal - but since the UK National Lottery began in 1994, unclaimed prizes have accumulated to more than Ł650 million [$1.17 billion]!
Checking that your particular 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 several months ago I found the next step on - an online lottery syndicate system!
Sure - the official national lottery website offers a syndicate management tool - but not like this one.
I looked at it rather sceptically as anyone through 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 one of 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 really is clever - it means that you will discover 44 entries and effectively the syndicate only has to 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 because 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 another 42 lines also win by matching 5 numbers! Add all those multiple wins together and divide by 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 same trick with the EuroMillions draw. In case you are not experienced with this it really is as big as many of the multi-state lotteries in the USA. Why? Because 9 countries in Europe are all playing it! And many more want to join in!
It's the biggest tax-free lump-sum national city lottery (please click the next site) on earth!
If you were watching the news earlier in 2006 you may have seen which 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 prospects of winning by an incredible 3600%! Raising 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 might make it simpler for you.
