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Oz Lotto Tuesday: The Jackpot that Stops a Nation – November 5th, 2012

The AU$ 100 million Oz Lotto jackpot has been named “the jackpot that stops a nation”. Will all of the hype and excitement surrounding Tuesday’s draw push the prize to record-setting heights?

Each year on the first Tuesday of November, Australia’s fastest thoroughbred horses dash across the finish line in the Melbourne Cup, dubbed, “the race that stops a nation”. The 3,200-metre race will commence at 3:00 PM sharp and distributed prizes to the first ten horses to complete the course, with about AU$ 6 million going to the winner and AU$ 125,000 given to the horse in the 10^th place spot. Melbourne Cup Day is a public holiday for Melbourne residents and over 110,000 people head to Flemington Racecourse in formal raceday wear to partake in the annual tradition.

However, this first Tuesday of November is somewhat of a different story. As Americans make a mad dash to the voting booth, Aussies will experience a completely different “race that stops the nation” as it is estimated that between one third and one half of the Australian adult population will rush to their lottery retailers to snatch up tickets for the AU$ 100 Oz Lotto jackpot draw, offering the biggest declared jackpot prize in the nation’s history.

In May 2009, the Oz Lotto boasted an AU$ 90 million declared jackpot. That top prize was pushed up to AU$ 106.5 million after stronger than expected ticket sales leading up to the draw. 5.5 million lottery tickets were purchased to last week’s AU$ 70 million Oz Lotto draw and the Tatts Lottery operator published a conservative estimate of 7 million tickets. Lottery fans, ticket retailers and Oz Lotto officials are waiting with baited breath to see if ticket sales can push the AU$ 100 million “jackpot that stops a nation” over the AU$ 106.5 million mark, creating a new Australian record.

No matter the outcome of the Oz Lotto Australia lottery results on Tuesday, the jackpot is destined for the history books. If only one winning ticket matches all seven numbers selected in the lottery results, they will become the single biggest lottery winner ever in Australia, taking home nearly double as much as the previous record-holder, a $58.7 million prize from 2008.

With AU$100 million, a potential Oz Lotto jackpot winner could afford to decorate their home with Vincent Van Gogh’s Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe (1889), estimated at $100 million, or fly 180 of their closest friends around the world on an Airbus A320neo, for $96.7 million.

On the other hand, if the jackpot goes unclaimed in Tuesday’s draw, it could rise to unprecedented heights, setting a new national record with tens of millions of dollars to spare.

What do you think? Will one of estimated 7 million tickets to be sold leading up to tomorrow’s draw win the coveted Oz Lotto jackpot win the AU$ 100 million prize or will the jackpot achieve the unimaginable and continue to grow! Cast your vote on our Facebook page here.

A Look at OZ Lotto Winning Numbers – October 25th, 2012

Australia is in the midst of an Oz Lotto frenzy! The Ozzie lottery favourite has not distributed a jackpot since August 28^th, and the top prize has subsequently rolled over to reach AU$ 70 million over the course of 11 draws. The jackpot hit AU$ 70 million last on May 8^th, 2012 and three lucky lottery fans successfully matched all 7 Oz Lotto winning numbers, each taking home AU$ 25 million in tax-free prizes. Excitement levels are rising as Tuesday’s upcoming Oz Lotto draw nears.

Here is an overview of the Oz Lotto Mania sweeping Australia, in terms of the numbers:

oz lotto infograph A Look at OZ Lotto Winning Numbers October 25th, 2012

Australia Saturday Lotto Super Draw makes 3 WA millionaires – September 25th, 2012

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Excitement Builds Ahead of Australia Saturday Lotto Super Draw – September 21st, 2012

The Australia Saturday Lotto has long been one of the finest global lotteries on offer.

Known for its impressive winning odds – one-in-31 players get their hands on money – the jackpot is also tax free and there are no caps on jackpots or rollovers. Indeed, the draw is currently top of theSmart, which means it has the best cost-to-benefit ratio in the world, and fifth on theBig.

However, the next Australia Saturday Lotto on September 22^nd is going to be one to remember as it is a Super Draw with AUS$22 million (€14.3 million) on offer. Several times a year, lottery officials make sure there is a monster jackpot and this is going to be one of these occasions.

These draws offer the best odds of winning a cash prize of any lottery in the Asia/Pacific region and so people will be very keen to make sure they have a ticket for the Australia Saturday Lotto Super Draw.

In order to become a multi-millionaire, all people have to do is match six numbers from a guess range of 1-45. However, this is not the only lottery worth entering in Australia at the moment.

The Australia Oz Lotto currently has a top prize of AUS$13 million, which places it ninth on theBig – a rundown of the biggest declared jackpots in the lottery world. This highlights how now is a great time for people to enter draws in the Southern Hemisphere country.

Once these multi-million windfalls are won, there are sure to be some people living big in the nation in the coming weeks. For around AUS$750,000, they could purchase a luxury yacht, which would offer them the chance to explore some of the fabulous coastline that Australia has to offer.

They may also buy a top-of-the-range sports car and drive along the Great Ocean Road, which stretches for 151 miles across the state of Victoria. Finally, they could rent a helicopter or plane and jet off to Kangaroo Island, which is a natural haven filled with Australia’s unique wildlife.

So there is likely to be a lot of excitement in the air when the Australia Saturday Lotto Super Draw is made on September 22^nd.

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Make it a Super Draw September to Remember! – September 13th, 2012

Lottery players across the globe are getting ready to enter two Super Draws this September.

Individuals can get their hands on a guaranteed monster jackpot thanks to the special draws being organized in both Australiaand Europe later in the month. On September 22^nd, the Australia Saturday Lotto Super Draw is taking place.

The top prize on offer will be a minimum of AUS$22 million (€14.3 million), which is much higher than the average windfall of AUS$4 million typically handed out by the lottery.

In order to have a chance of becoming the latest Australia Saturday Lotto Super Draw multi-millionaire, individuals have to buy themselves lottery tickets and wait for the numbers to come out.

The guess range is 1-45 and there will be six main and two bonus numbers drawn. Provided people match all six main numbers, they can start to dream about what they will do with the life-changing sum of money.

Known for offering great winning odds, the Australia Saturday Lotto currently sits on top of the theSmart, so with an increased jackpot on offer, everyone should get involved in the Super Draw.

However, the EuroMillions also has something special planned on September 28^th. A guaranteed €100 million top prize is going to be on offer. This means that even if someone wins in the previous draw, the jackpot will not be reset to €15 million as usual, but instead inflated to €100 million.

As this windfall has to be won on the night, it raises the possibility that someone could take home the prize without matching five numbers and two Lucky Stars. Should no one manage to guess all seven numbers correctly, the jackpot will simply roll down and be shared amongst players in the next winning prize tier.

Since the EuroMillions was started back in 2004, there have been a number of Super Draws held. The last one took place on October 4^th 2011 and the top prize is always increased to a minimum of €100 million and can grow to as much as €130 million.

So people have no excuse for not buying a few lottery tickets and trying to win either of these fantastic Super Draws!

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Oz Lotto Winning Odds To Tempt Players? – August 2nd, 2012

People are always looking to enter lottery draws they think they have a good chance of winning.

The Oz Lotto – which was set up in February 1994 – is one ofAustralia’s leading lotteries and holds the record for the highest Aussie lotto jackpot. This partly explains its popularity, as people know they are in with a shot of taking home a large pot of money.

oz lotto Oz Lotto Winning Odds To Tempt Players? August 2nd, 2012

Another reason that individuals are more than happy to pick their seven numbers – from a guess range of 1 to 45 – is the Oz Lotto winning odds on offer. The chances of taking the top prize are 1:45,379,620. To put this in perspective, it is much better than the odds of 1:54,979,156 offered by the Australia Powerball Lotto draw for the jackpot.

Players have a 1:87 chance of taking home some money, as this is the odds offered on the smallest prize tier. In contrast, this is much smaller than the probability of taking home money that the Australia Powerball Lotto, where 1:556 is the best odds on offer.

The Oz Lotto has a history of big rollovers and can continue to grow indefinitely as there is no cap set in place by the organisers. Back in 2009, an Au$106 million top prize was up for grabs after no one matched all of the seven numbers on a succession of draws. This still ranks as the largest ever jackpot offered by the lottery.

In May of this year, the lottery jackpot reached the sizeable sum of Au$70 million after there were nine consecutive draws without a jackpot winner. Unsurprisingly, many people fancied the Oz Lotto winning odds and bought plenty of tickets in the hope of becoming millionaires. As well as this, a more recent draw in June left an Australian celebrating after they took home a cool Au$13 million.

The next Oz Lotto draw will take place on Tuesday (August 7^th) and the jackpot will be Au$2 million. However, as we have seen in the past, this prize total could grow and shoot up to one of the Aussie lotto’s well-known records if no one manages to match all seven numbers in the next draw!

Individuals from the country can also play the Australian Powerball, the Australian Saturday Lotto and the Australian Wednesday Lottery in the hope of winning big.

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Parklife 2012 VIP Tickets Perfect for Lottery Winners – June 20th, 2012

With the Parklife 2012 festival line-up published and lottery online Australia looking to dole out huge prizes in the next few months, it has turned out to be a surprisingly sunny and mild winter for Australia. And while the rest of the world will bundle up for winter in September, Australia will be coming out of hibernation and heading to Parklife 2012 festival, showcasing ground-breaking new music across Australia!

We are entering auspicious times for Australian lotteries – June and July have proven to bring extra luck to Australian lottery winners in past years. On June 30^th 2009, the Ozzie Lotto favourite, Oz Lotto, distributed Australia’s largest jackpot ever, an AU$ 106 million jackpot (US $109 million)! The estimated jackpot had been posted at AU$ 90 million, but record ticket sales pushed the prize up to AU$ 106 million! Then, only one month later, the Powerball Australia Lotto set a new lottery record when it handed out an AU$ 80 million prize on July 30^th, 2009. With Australian lottery jackpots on the rise, there are hopes that Australian lottery results 2012 could rewrite the Aussie lotto history books.

Exactly three years after the AU$ 106 million Oz Lotto jackpot set a new lottery record, the Saturday Lotto will hold a Super Draw special event. On June 30^th, a massive AU$ 30 million will be heaped onto the jackpot and millions will be added to the secondary prize divisions. This Australian Super Draw combines a huge jackpot that could grow even bigger with increased ticket sales and the Australian lottery’s unparalleled winning odds. This not-to-be-missed draw offers the best chances of walking away a millionaire in the Pacific region and quite possibly the world!

In addition to great news from the Australia Saturday Lotto, Australians are celebrating the start of ticket sales and publication of the concert line-up for the 2012 Parklife festival, which will travel to Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide in September and October 2012. The music festival has been an Aussie favourite since its inaugural concert in 2000, showing off the best new talent and traveling around the country for day-long events. The Presets will headline Parklife 2012 with their new album, “Youth in Trouble.” With live music flowing from up to five stages simultaneously, concert-goers will be jumping around like lottery jackpot winners for days.

Join in on the excitement down under and enter the impressive fleet of Australian lotteries, which offer renowned winning odds and great prizes. And if you happen to match all six winning numbers in the Super Draw and collect an AU$ 30 million prize, celebrate with a VIP ticket to Parklife 2012 – complete with exclusive viewing platforms, meetings with the performers, massages, drinks and stage-side gourmet dining!

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Powerball Australia Lotto: Watch Out USA Powerball – May 14, 2012

The Powerball Australia Lotto jackpot seems to have shot up to AU$ 25,000,000 out of nowhere. $25 million is the lottery big leagues. In fact, American lottery giant, Mega Millions, also has a current jackpot valued at $25 million! A $25 million jackpot is bigger than the biggest jackpot record for the Austria Lotto, France Lotto, and Massachusetts Megabucks. And with this AU$25 million jackpot, the Australia Powerball has earned itself the #5 spot on theLotter’s theBig list, sandwiched right in between lottery big wigs, EuroMillions and Mega Millions.

AU$25 million seems to be an auspicious number in the Australian lottery scene lately. On May 8, Oz Lotto set out to break its own jackpot record and create a new Australian all-time high record. The AU$74.6 million jackpot became the second largest in the history of both Australia and Oz Lotto. The three first-prize winners matched the seven main number and two additional number draws, awarding them each about AU$25 million!

Just 5 draws ago, the Australia Powerball jackpot was poised for rollovers with a starting jackpot of AU$ 3 million. The lottery’s sudden spike to $25 million can be attributed to a generous rollover policy that allows for massive jackpot jumps between draws. Once the jackpot reaches AU$ 6 million after one rollover, it takes off running, jumping to AU$10 million, and increasing by either AU$5 million or AU$ 10 million in each draw. In the beginning of February, the jackpot doubled from AU$15 million to AU$30 million in just two rollovers! Very few lotteries that share Australia Powerball’s great winning odds boast such impressive rollovers.

Fans of American lotto online should consider trying their luck at Australian Powerball. With all of the excitement of its American counterpart, USA Powerball, Australia Powerball offers tax-free prizes and a smaller guess ranges to give lottery lovers better odds of winning. And even though Australian Powerball and Mega Millions have the same current jackpot, with 10 fewer numbers in the regular guess range and 1 number kighter in the additional number pool, the Australian Powerball jackpots offer exceptional odds. A ticket is over three times more likely to win the Australian Powerball thank it is to win the USA Mega Millions jackpot!

In a lottery world dominated by American and European lottery superpowers, Powerball Lottery Australia and Oz Lotto are putting Australia on the map in a big way. Channel your inner Australian and enter AU Powerball at theLotter to win amazing, tax-free prizes!

Oz Lotto Second Largest Jackpot Split Three Ways – May 9, 2012

Oz Lotto’s second largest jackpot, AU $74.8 million, was split between three winners who matched the numbers 17, 8, 28, 34, 41, 42, and 6, and additional numbers 4 and 19, in yesterday’s 2012/951 draw. The three lottery winners, from South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria, each pocketed AU $24.9 million, but they have yet to come forward to claim their prizes. The total prize pool for the Oz Lotto draw was $119.6 million, which was split between the 2.2 million winners for the lottery’s 7 prize divisions in addition to the three big winners.

In the hours leading up to the draw, ticket sales surpassed 7600 a minute, and it is estimated that, on average, every Australian adult spent AU $20 on lottery tickets for the second largest Australian jackpot.

The world is eagerly awaiting the jackpot winners’ great reveal, but it might take time for them to get to the lottery results checker and realize their win! An Oz Lotto official noted, “Sometimes with mid-week draws people forget to look at their ticket until they go in again on the Saturday to buy a new ticket.” In the meantime, the remaining 2,199,997 Oz Lotto prize winners can start celebrating!

Oz Lotto Jackpot Riding the Australian Record Wave—Results Soon! – May 8, 2012

Oz Lotto is once again making waves in the media with a jackpot that is fast approaching both the lottery’s and country’s jackpot record, an AU $106 million (US $109 million) prize from June 2009. Gaining speed an additional AU $20 million dollars per rollover, the Oz Lotto is just a draw or two away from a new jackpot record for Australia!

On Tuesday, April 16th, the Oz Lotto Australia jumped from Au $20 million to AU $30 million when no ticket matched the 7 numbers selected in the draw. The next week it jumped to AU $50 million, and then gained another AU $20 million to reach today’s $70 million prize for the 2012/951 draw whose results lottery fans from around the world are waiting to see any moment!

Another rollover could push the Oz Lotto up to AU $90 million, Oz Lotto’s lucky number. Last time the Oz Lotto jackpot reached AU $90 million, ticket sales exceeded all expectations, driving the jackpot up to the lottery’s record sum of AU $106 million.

Mega Millions experienced three months of jackpot rollovers in early 2012, resulting in a $476 million jackpot for the March 30 draw. However, with over 1.5 billion tickets sold, the jackpot continued to rise before the draw, reaching $500 million, $640 million and finally $656 million. That really says something about the power of HUGE prize!

If the recent lottery craze over the $656 million Mega Millions drawing is any indication, an AU $90 million jackpot has the potential to blow the previous record out of the water! It is estimated that half of Australia’s adult population bought lottery tickets for this momentous Oz Lotto draw. Of those 7.5 million tickets sold, about 4 million were estimated to be sold in the hours leading up to today’s draw.

Results will be published soon! Follow the Oz Lotto’s exciting jackpot trajectory at theLotter with lottery result alerts, jackpot alerts, and SMS winning notifications to find out if you are the proud owner of one of Australia’s top, tax-free lottery prizes!

Take Your Pick – 4 Types of Lottery Tickets in Australia – May 1, 2012

One in five Australian adults purchased Oz Lotto tickets for the lottery’s record-breaking Au $90 million draw, with a surge in ticket sales bumping the jackpot up to Au $106 million in 2009. Australia Saturday Lotto has become a permanent fixture in the top spot of theLotter’s theSmart category, which ranks lotteries according to cost-benefit ratio, taking into account winning odds, ticket price, taxes and jackpot. Australia Wednesday Lotto made headlines in 2011, when it handed out a Au $1 million prize to an unemployed couple whose home had been damaged in the Christchurch earthquate and they had lost everything. And as for the Australia Powerball lotto, it adds an Australian flair to the international trend of Powerball lotteries popping up around the world. With 4 successful lotteries, which offer impressive tax-free jackpots and great winning odds, Australia has a lot to be proud of when it comes to their lotteries.

The four all-star Australian lotteries are spread out throughout the week so that players can purchase lottery tickets in Australia for draws every day of the week. And with each lottery offering a slightly different lottery format, jackpot, and odds, the Australian lotteries keep life exciting, Monday-Sunday! Read more

Wondering which lotto to play online? Make the Smart Choice – April 29, 2012

Oz Lotto and New Jersey Pick Six Lotto both began their exciting jackpot rollover rise with a $2 million starting prize before reaching their current prizes of Au $50,000,000 and $14,200,000 respectively. The lotteries have installed themselves at 2^nd and 3^rd place spots on theLotter’s theSmart category, thanks to outstanding winning odds and great cost-benefit ratios. So, for those wondering which lotto to play this week, theLotter is here to offer insight into the unique features that make this pair super smart.

New Jersey Pick Six Lotto is the easy-to-play American lottery heading towards the top. The instructions are right in the name – pick six numbers (out of 49) and hope for a winning match. What the title does not say is that the lottery offers three secondary prize categories for players who match 3, 4 or 5 numbers, that the lottery’s prizes have no rollover limit or jackpot cap, or that the attractive first prizes increase by $250,000 with each rollover. New Jersey Lotto awarded its biggest jackpot in 2001, and is currently searching for its next big winner to take the lottery’s $14.2 million prize.

Players looking to enter a national lottery that offers an exceptional cost-benefit ratio and equally attractive jackpots turn to Oz Lotto Australia which has recently scaled the ranks of theBig and thSmart with a AU $50 million jackpot. Oz Lotto offers participants a 1 in 57 chance of winning one of its 7 prize categories and 2 bonus numbers expand the prize division for more ways to win. Even though Oz Lotto frequently appears on theSmart, its impressive jackpots, which reached US $109 million in 2009, showcases the lottery’s versatility which make it at home in theBig as well. In contrast to many of the theBig’s mainstays, the Oz Lotto boasts some of the lottery world’s impressive winning odds that make 87 players winners of the lottery’s 3 + 1 bonus number prize.

theLotter offers lottery tickets online to over 40 lotteries worldwide. With that kind of variety, choosing the right lottery to enter can be a daunting task. As a service to customers, we highlight the biggest jackpots and the best cost-benefit ratios in theBig and theSmart lottery categories to help you choose the lottery that bests suits your interests and goals. Visit theSmart to see Oz Lotto and New Jersey Pick Six in action, and purchase a Subscription for ultimate savings in the world’s smartest draws!

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Oz Australia Lotto – The Bonus Behind the Bonus Number! – April 23, 2012

Oz Australia Lotto made history on June 30, 2009 when it awarded the biggest jackpot seen down under, an AU $106 million (US $109 million) prize. The jackpot winner was perhaps the luckiest Australian ever, seeing that she selected all of the winning numbers on the very first Oz Lotto ticket she had ever purchased. In a state of shock, the winner stayed up all night checking and re-checking the lottery results to ensure that she had in fact won. With seven regular guesses and two bonus numbers selected in each draw, even lottery aficionados will forgive the lucky winner for re-confirming her win. Nine lotto numbers and the resulting winning combinations can get players asking questions. We decided to offer up some answers so that fans can keep their OZ Lotto numbers straight in order to enjoy a relaxed afterglow from a win in Australia’s top lottery!

In the tape of the historic AU $106 million drawing, nine numbers stretch across the entire screen, and they barely fit! One might say that the Australian lottery announcer has a much harder job than announcers for NJ Pick Six or Florida Lottery results, who only have to broadcast 6 winning numbers. Not only does she have to announce the 7 regular guesses pulled from a guess range of 1-45, but she also must dictate the results of the two bonus numbers, selected from the same guess pool. That’s a lot of numbers!

OZ Lotto’s structure allows for the nine numbers to create competitive winning odds and 6 secondary prize categories for more ways to win. Oz Lotto’s two bonus balls are truly a lottery player’s best friend! Better yet, players don’t even have to pick the bonus numbers– the lottery randomly selects them for the benefit of the players. With Oz Lotto, players get VIP treatment even before they win the lottery!

The sheer number of lottery ticket numbers on an Oz Lotto ticket might seem daunting, but look carefully because with seven prize categories, there very well might be a winning combination inside those lucky numbers.

Gosnells family win Au$1 million playing Wednesday Lotto – February 1st 2012

A family from Gosnells has landed $1 million playing Wednesday Lotto.

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