Supermarket chain has launched a lottery with a difference

An ingenious Italian supermarket chain has launched a lottery with a difference. The prize for this novel lottery isn’t a multi-million jackpot, the prize is a job. The economic pressure being felt across the world has left many people without jobs and Italy is no different. This means that the prize of a job, as opposed to a huge cash prize from this clever lottery will still create lots of excitement.

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Mega Millions lottery jackpot won for the second time in four days

On Tuesday night the Mega Millions lottery jackpot was won for the second time in four days but it wasn’t until Wednesday evening that the winning ticket holder realised that he had won a fortune. The 54 year old man from Atlanta matched all five main numbers and the Mega Ball to win the $12 million lottery prize.

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Lottery Winners Curse

Is there really such a thing as a ‘lottery winners curse?’ Over the years studies of lottery winners, who have suddenly found themselves incredibly wealthy overnight have shown that being a big lottery jackpot win can be a dream come true one day and a nightmare the next leading people all over the world to talk about the mysterious lottery winners curse.

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Lottery spending in Spain has fallen

Due to the increasingly difficult economic conditions in Spain and the rest of Europe, lottery spending in Spain has fallen by €151 million for the first 34 weeks of this year which is a decline of approximately 3% compared to the same period last year.

This news of this decline in ticket sales for the Spanish El Gordo state lottery comes as Spanish households continue to compete against rising unemployment and ever-increasing levels of debt across the country. Spain’s Ministry of Finance claims that the total lottery spending between January 1st and August 16th 2009 was just under €5 billion, down from over €5.1 billion for the same period last year, amounting to an approximate drop in ticket sales for the El Gordo lottery of €150 million. However there is one lottery which the Spanish public are continuing to spend their money buying tickets for.

The EuroMillions trans-continental lottery has bucked the trend of falling lottery ticket sales in Spain this year. The El Gordo Spanish lottery offers it’s players a one-in-three chance of buying a winning ticket with a huge 70% of all ticket sales proceeds being made available for the prize fund, compared to 40 to 50% which is the rough average of the payout structures of most north American and European lotteries for example. However the lure of the huge international rollover lottery jackpots and cheaper tickets seems to have swayed the Spanish public into playing the EuroMillions as opposed to their own El Gordo lottery, whose operators have designed it’s format to ensure that more people win but are rewarded with smaller prizes, possibly reducing the excitement of playing the El Gordo for Spanish citizens.

You can join the Spanish and the rest of Europe in playing the EuroMillions lottery, even while sat right there at your computer. You can buy tickets for the EuroMillions and many other lotteries from around the world right here at Online-Lotto. Just select the lottery you would like to play from the “Play Online Lotto” list to the right of this article and start picking those lucky numbers.

The National Lottery has announced the recipients of lottery funding

The National Lottery’s Big Lottery Fund has released details of where a lot of the recent good causes funding has been distributed. The National Lottery has announced the recipients of more than £52 million worth of lottery funding in the UK and Northern Ireland.

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