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TattsLotto is a weekly lottery game played on Saturday nights in Australia, known as Saturday Lotto in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia, and Gold Lotto in Queensland. It was the first European-format "lotto" style lottery in Australia.
1994: Oz Lotto is introduced in NSW, ending NSW Lotto's reign as the only lotto game played in the state (New South Wales being the last state to join the Australian Lotto Bloc, in 2000.) April 2004: The game was made identical in structure to Saturday Lotto: six winning numbers and two supplementary numbers are drawn from 45 balls, with its ...
The 'Lucky Lotteries' brand is used to market the $2 Jackpot Lottery and the $5 Jackpot Lottery, which are separate although similar games. Oz Lotto (run by Tatts Group and syndicated by NSW Lotteries) Powerball (run by Tatts Group and syndicated by NSW Lotteries) Set For Life is a new NSW Lotteries game launched on 3 August 2015. [2]
The Powerball lottery jackpot was an estimated $468 million for Saturday night's drawing. ... The jackpot was last won on Oct. 11 when a lottery player in California won the $1.765 billion jackpot.
On 1 March 2007, the Division 1 pool was $33 million; it was the largest Australian lottery prize won. On 5 June 2008, the Division 1 pool was $58,737,207.41; then the largest prize pool in Australian history to that point (since eclipsed several times, including by Oz Lotto in 2012, which had a Division 1 pool of $100 million.) [ 3 ]
Tatts Group had a near monopoly on lotteries in Australia. Tatts Lotteries is the Lotteries Operating Unit of Tatts Group and as of September 2013 the company owned or leased: Tatts Lottery, which operates lotteries in Victoria, Tasmania, and The Northern Territory. [2] Golden Casket, which exclusively operates lotteries in Queensland.
Oz Lotto was first introduced in 1994 and promoted as Australia's first fully national lottery game, at a time when New South Wales was not part of The Australian Lotto Bloc. Originally, the game was similar to Saturday Lotto, requiring six numbers to be picked out of 45. However, starting 18 October 2005, a seventh number began to be drawn ...
It sells lottery tickets and Instant Scratch-Its (scratchcards) through newsagents and other convenience stores. Lottery draws are televised on Channel Seven five nights a week. The drawing of the first Golden Casket in 1917 by Queensland Patriotic Fund was to raise money to support veterans of World War I with a first prize of 5,000 pounds ...