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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.
Three separate numbers were drawn, named after the number of digits in each winning number: Lucky 7 (with numbers ranging from 1000000 to 1999999), Lucky 6 (100000-449999) and Lucky 3 (000-999). Prizes were awarded in a similar manner to Super 66, with a $1 million prize offered for matching the Lucky 7 number exactly, while consolation prizes ...
Powerball is a lottery operated by Tatts Group under the master brand, the Lott and its licensed subsidiaries including New South Wales Lotteries in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Tattersalls in Victoria and Tasmania, Golden Casket in Queensland, and South Australian Lotteries in South Australia.
In May 1999, an Australian man from Melbourne named Bill Morgan (born 1961) was captured on film winning a AU$250,000 scratchcard while re-enacting his previous scratchcard win for a news report. The video of the event has since been widely shared online.
It is known elsewhere in Australia as Tattslotto or Gold Lotto. The Monday & Wednesday Lotto draws are run by NSW Lotteries and are available across Australia except Queensland. Although the draws are played identically, all requiring players to select six numbers from a possible 45, Saturday Lotto/Tattslotto is more expensive to enter due to ...
The odds of winning can also be reduced by increasing the group from which numbers are drawn. In the SuperEnalotto of Italy, players must match 6 numbers out of 90. [52] The chance of winning the jackpot is 1 in 622,614,630. [53] Most lotteries give lesser prizes for matching just some of the winning numbers, with a lesser prize for fewer matches.
In 1961, the Victorian TAB (Totalisator Agency Board) was established, legalising off-course totalisator betting. Three years later in 1964, the NSW TAB was established, betting on two race meetings on its first day at Canterbury and Menangle.
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.