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On April 1, 2021, the matrix is changed from 6/52 to 6/50 and the base wager was raised to $2 to support the entry for the Main draw and 2 additional draws (Lotto Million 1 and Lotto Million 2, both have a $1,000,000 cash prize). The odds of winning a jackpot in the game's current version are 1 in 15,890,700 for a single set of drawn numbers.
The draw of February 8, 2015, to February 12, 2017, was held from Fridays and Sundays only. But starting February 14, 2017, Draws are now held on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Making the pari-mutuel games of Lotto 6/42 and Super Lotto 6/49 extended as three pari-mutuel games every Tuesdays only. Its minimum jackpot is PHP50,000,000.00.
The first modern government-run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934. [8] This was followed, decades later, by the New Hampshire Lottery in 1964. Instant lottery tickets, also known as scratch cards, were introduced in the 1970s and have become a major source of lottery revenue.
Virginia's Cash 5 with EZ Match game draws five numbers from 1 to 45. The minimum ticket cost is $1. The top prize is a parimutuel jackpot that starts at $200,000 and grows until there is a 5-of-5 winner. Players also win if they match 2, 3, or 4 numbers in any given position. Drawings are held on every night at 11PM.
With no grand prize winner from Saturday's Powerball drawing, the jackpot now is worth an estimated $460 million and a cash value of $220.4 million.
CHF 70.1 million was the largest jackpot in Switzerland's Swiss Lotto, won by 3 winning tickets on 17 December 2016. [81] CHF 64.6 million (US$72.8 million) was the largest winner in Switzerland's Swiss Lotto, won on 2 March 2024. [81] £35.1 million (US$49.6 million) was the largest winner on the UK Lotto game in April 2016.
The winning tickets matched five numbers but not the Powerball, lottery officials say.
Accompanying the lottery is the betting game, an illegal form of lottery among the people, which uses the results of the jackpot of the legal traditional lottery as the prize-winning results. In Hanoi, the "agent" system of the betting game has developed along with traditional lottery stores and iced tea stalls, operating quite openly. [ 46 ]