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Mega Lotto 6/45 was introduced on May 17, 1997, and a more improved version of the 6/42 draw and is also introduced as a nationwide one. As the name states, a six-number combination is chosen from a lot of numbers from 1 to 45. As with 6/42, at least three of one's chosen numbers must appear among the six winning numbers to win a prize.
Similar to lotteries in the United States, Europe and Australia, the automated gaming, initially the Lotto 6/42 and later expanded to Mega Lotto 6/45, 6-Digit Lotto and 4-Digit Lotto in 1997, Super Lotto 6/49 in 2000, Swertres 3D Lotto in 2002, EZ2 Lotto in 2004, Grand Lotto 6/55 in 2010 and Ultra Lotto 6/58 in 2015, the player chooses any set ...
United Kingdom: Lotto (59; Wednesdays and Saturdays) Scandinavia: Vikinglotto (48+1 Viking ball out of 5; Wednesdays) Slovakia: Loto (49; Wednesdays and Sundays) Slovenia: Loto (44; Wednesdays and Sundays) Hungary: Lotto 6 (45; Sundays) Bulgaria: TOTO 2 (6/49 and 6/42) Thursdays and Sundays. Switzerland: Swiss Lotto (6/42) (42+1 Bonus ball out ...
Nordic and Baltic countries: Vikinglotto. Pan-European: EuroDreams. Austria: Österreichische Lotterien: Lotto 6 aus 45, EuroMillions and Zahlenlotto. Belgium: Loterie Nationale or Nationale Loterij (Lotto 6/45, Joker+, Keno, Pick 3), Vikinglotto and EuroMillions. Bulgaria: The state lottery is organized by the Bulgarian Sports Totalizator ...
It originally was a pick-6 (hence the name) of 36 numbers. Players paid $1 for each game; a winning ticket needed at least four correct numbers in a game. In June 1984, it was changed to 6/39, then in February 1986, later went to a 6/42 matrix, followed by an additional change to 6/46, in January 1989; making even higher jackpots possible.
In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner— regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816. The chance of winning can be demonstrated as ...
On November 8, 2022, a single ticket purchased in Altadena, California, was the only winner of a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot, the largest in U.S. lottery history. [73] The prize was claimed on February 14, 2023. The winner was revealed as Edwin Castro. He opted to collect his prize as a lump sum payment of $997.6 million.
SuperLotto Plus is a lotto game played in the style of Mega Millions and Powerball. SuperLotto Plus is drawn every Wednesday and Saturday. The game began in 1986 as Lotto 6/49 (which was played similarly to the Canadian version of the game), then changed to SuperLotto somewhere in the 90s (with the matrix of 6/51).