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The National Lottery was introduced to South Africa on 11 March 2000. At the time it was run by Uthingo. [citation needed]After a marketing effort that aimed to reach 80 percent of South African homes directly [5] more than 800,000 tickets were sold in the first day of availability [6] Nearly R70 million worth of tickets were sold in the first three weeks of operation.
The Friday night draws showed the EuroMillions results and the Thunderball draw and are usually broadcast at 23:15. The Friday night draws were the only draws not to be broadcast live. From January 2013, the Friday draws are available to watch exclusively on the National Lottery's website. There is still a results update on BBC One at 22:35.
Depending on the game, a minimum of either two or three numbers(not counting a "bonus ball") must be matched for a winning ticket(A 2/5 match usually results in a free play for that game, or a "break-even" win; for the latter, the player wins back their stake on that particular five-number wager.).
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The Powerball jackpot is up to $975 million with a cash value of $471.1 million for Monday night's drawing after no jackpot-winning ticket was sold Saturday night. The drawing for Saturday night ...
The last jackpot winner came earlier this month when a ticket sold in New York matched the five numbers and the Powerball to win $256 million. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are long.
SA Lotto was replaced with an expanded version of NSW Lotto on 1 May 2006; the game is simply marketed as Lotto, in line with the Saturday version, replacing the SA Lotto brand. (The X Lotto brand was replaced with Lotto and SA Lotto in 1999, since crosses on entry forms were no longer accepted – but was reinstated in May 2010. [9])
There are also cases in which players have colluded with lottery employees to cheat the game from the inside; last August, a director of a multistate lottery association was sentenced to 25 years in prison after using his computer programming skills to rig jackpots in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, funneling $2.2 million to ...