Charity Lottery
Italy
2008年SISAL S.p.A 彩票销售4897.6 M$,其中Lotto 3536.9
Toto 1331.1 Instant 15.0 Other 13.8
2008年Lottomatica S.p.A 彩票销售22400.8 M$,其中Lotto
8249.8 Toto 1078.5 Instant 12938.6 Draw
133.9
Lotteries inside and outside of
Italy
What is a lottery? A lottery is a popular form of gambling which
involves the drawing of lots for a prize. Some governments forbid
it, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national
lottery. The first signs of a lottery are followed back to the Han
Dynasty between 205 - 187 B.C.!
How we have proof is because ancient Keno slips were
discovered. The lottery has helped finance major projects such as
the Great Wall of China. There is also risk to the organizer
if insufficient tickets are sold. The prize may be a fixed
percentage of all receipts. Lotteries are most often run by a
government or by the local state and are sometimes described as
Regressive Tax - since those most likely to buy tickets will be the
less affluent members of a society. Playing the lottery is
voluntary, but it is intended to suggest that lotteries are
governmental revenue - raising mechanisms that will attract only
those people who fail to see that the game is a very bad deal.
Taking into account the present value of the lottery prize as a
single lump sum cash payment the impact of any taxes that might
apply and the likelihood of having to share the prize with other
winners is not uncommon to find that a ticket for a typical major
lottery is worth less than 1\3 of its purchase price.
TOTIP +piu
This game is played on Sundays. This game is Italy's horse
race game. There are six games and the horses are divided into
three groups; 1, x, 2. For every race you need to mark the order of
arrival. You have Corsa (Race) 1 - 12 and group °1 and °2. In
box 'A' you need to choose that horses number of arrival: 1, x, or
2. AT the bottom of the card you have the 'Corso X' here you choose
the horses that you think will come in first or second place,
choosing only two. SuperEnalotto
This lottery you can compare to the 'Big Game' in the United
States or the 'Power Ball' lottery.
Well, this is Italy's PowerBall! You can choose six numbers
from 1 - 90. And you may play the 'SuperStar' your lucky
number. All you need to do is play the six numbers for
SuperEnalotto and the computer will automatically choose a
superstar number for you if you check the box in the star on the
superEnalotto playing card. You may choose your own numbers or you
may pick a pre - made card already having 6 numbers marked
off.
SuperEnalotto is a lottery that has been played
in Italy since 3 December 1997. Draws take place on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM. The jackpots won are among the
largest in the world. On May 4, 2005, a jackpot worth
€71,767,565.57 (US$ 94,804,954.12) was won by a single ticket
shared by ten customers at a bar in Milan.[3] For over three years,
this was the game's largest jackpot. This was later broken by a
prize of €100,756,197.30 (US$ 129,753,830.88) which was won by a
single ticket on October 23, 2008 in Catania. A record breaker
prize of €147,807,299.08 (US$ 211,807,859.58) was won on August 22,
2009 by one ticket holder in Bagnone (Toscana).[4]
The Mega Millions game played in the United States with six
numbers also. It used to be called the 'Big Game' until May, 2002
when it was changed to Mega Millions. The very first ticket was
sold on August 31st 1996. During that time you could only play in:
Massachusetts, Michigan, Maryland, Illinois, Georgia and Virginia.
So those that lived outside had to find the closest state and run
across the borders to play. It is played with two pools of numbers
with five different numbers from 1 - 56 and one number from 1 - 46.
You win by selecting all six numbers in one drawing. If you win,
you may choose between annual payments over a 26 year period -
which is 38,500 every year for every million won (that is before
taxes of course), or you may be paid in a one time lump
sum.
The Powerball lottery is very similar to the Mega millions
game where you have to choose 5 numbers from 1 through 55 and the
powerball (which is the sixth) out of 1 - 42 numbers. Starting in
1988 as 'Lottery America' the name was officially changed on June
8th 1996 - perhaps in competition with the Big Game? Thus a
marketing strategy?
Lotteria Italia
Once a year Lotteria Italia comes out around Oct - November
and the numbers are extracted around the 6th of January which
happens to fall on the holiday of the Befana. These cards are
already set with a series of numbers winning or not! There are
scratch and wins also on the card.
Tuttocalcio (All Soccer)
This game is presented on the same playing card as the
Totogol. The cost for this game is 1 euro. The extractions are done
every Sunday and every other Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.
There are fourteen games printed on the playing card and may
be played by columns - 2 columns is the minimum and the cost is .50
per column. For every game played correct the player receives 1
point. There are 3 winning categories: 14, 13 and 12. If you miss
one the jackpot is added to and keeps accumulating and keeps
growing. They also offer the possibility to win prizes before the
soccer game starts. The prizes start at 100 euro and are assigned
quickly after the game card is purchased so you can check to see if
you won without hesitation! There is one prize given per 15,000
columns - and they are directly paid at your place of purchase
(Right on your receipt of game purchase it is noted if you had won
the pre - soccer game prize).
There is another part to this lotto called 'il 9.' For anyone
who gets one of the 9 games right, they receive one point, and to
win you must get all 9 games right to receive your 9 points and
win.
Totogol
This game consists of 14 different games presented in a
little box and numbered 1 - 14.
You may choose between four possibilities: '01' equal to zero
and for 1 goal, '02' for 2 goals made, '03' for 3 goals, and '04'
for four or more goals. The games to play are pre - chosen with the
tiny boxes in black. You must play a minimum of 2 columns which is
.50 a column.
The New Zealand Lottery is controlled by you guessed it, the
New Zealand Government. The lotteries are held on Saturdays and
Wednesdays The lotto game was first played in 1987 and replaced New
Zealand's original national lotteries. Lotto is a pick of 6 numbers
from 1 - 40.The prizes are around 300,000 - 2 million New Zealand
Dollars. Your chances of winning are 1 in 3,800,000. The New
Zealand Power ball works like to powerball in the United States.
And with this game your chances of winning are one in
30mil.
Canada's first lottery was Quebec's Inter - loto back in
1970. And throughout the 70's other province lotteries started
popping up. Finally the Canadian government ran 'Loto Canada' to
help recoup from expenses of the 1976 Olympics. Lottery prizes are
not usually subject to Canadian tax.
Today Canada has two nation - wide lotteries: Lotto 6\49
(est. 1982) and Lotto Super 7 (est. 1994).
The very first lottery in France was created by King Francis
I around 1505. After his attempt, lotteries were soon forbidden for
almost two hundred years. Finally at the end of the 17th century it
showed up again as a public lotte