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How Russian lotteries work and how realistic it is to win

Let's get ahead of ourselves: yes, the lottery is sometimes won. No, the lottery is not a way to earn money. The lottery company always wins. Everything is legal.

Ilya Anonymous

dabbled in lotteries

In Russia, there is a system of state lotteries. For the buyer, it usually looks like this: you buy a lottery ticket, mark the numbers on it, and somewhere in Moscow a drawing takes place. The numbers are randomly drawn. If you guessed any of them, you won. The more you guessed, the more you won.

For example, for this article, I bought a Russian Lotto 4 out of 20 ticket for 100 rubles. You have to guess four numbers in each of the two fields. I guessed two numbers in one of the fields and won 100 rubles.

Who is doing it

By law, all lotteries in Russia are state-owned. You cannot get together with business partners and organize a lottery: since 2014, the state has been a monopoly here.

Lotteries in Russia come from two ministries: sports and finance. Several private companies are subordinate to them, from which ministries buy services for organizing and distributing their lotteries. That is, the ministry itself does not print tickets and does not publish the results of lotteries in newspapers - this is done by contractors.

Contractors commissioned by ministries do most of the work: they buy equipment, get certified, make tickets, keep records and sell them; place advertisements, conduct draws, wipe floors in lottery centers; looking for the winners, digging through the paperwork and paying out the money. Since 2018, they also pay some taxes on winnings.

The largest Russian lottery contractor - Stoloto - drew a picture for us of how everything works:

How they play

Depending on the type of lottery, there are three fundamental ways to play them.

Right at the point of purchase. You buy a ticket with an erasable layer, erase the layer, and if you get a winning combination, you win. The result of the drawing is known immediately, as soon as you have erased the protective layer, and the lottery itself took place, as it were, at the time the ticket was made.

The lottery is that you chose this particular ticket, and not the next one. This ticket already contains whether you won or not.

Purely theoretically, lottery players can print lottery tickets so that none of them has a winning combination. But they assure that this will never happen. Let us suppose.

On the computer. Somewhere in the bowels of the lottery company there is a computer, a sophisticated random number generator works in the computer. Several times a day, he is given the command to spit out random numbers, they are immediately published on the lottery website. If by this time you have bought a ticket and you have guessed the right numbers in it, you have won.

I bought a ticket for the Rapido lottery directly from the site of the lottery distributor.

Purely theoretically, a random number generator can be given the task of spitting out only those numbers that no one noted in this draw. After all, the lottery knows in advance who marked which numbers. But lottery players assure that this is out of the question.

In the lottery. There are special devices for drawing lotteries: balls with numbers are loaded into them, air jets are blown, the balls are mixed, and at some point the balls fall into a special tube. The first few balls are considered dropped, and if I guessed them, I won.

Draws on lottery drums at Stoloto are broadcast live on the Internet, plus you can watch them at the lottery center in Moscow on Volgogradsky Prospekt:

A variant of the lottery drum is "Russian Lotto". This is the same lottery drum, only instead of a plastic flask - a bag, instead of balls - barrels, instead of air jets - a leader. The draws of the "Russian Lotto" are broadcast on TV, the shooting takes place in advance in the studio with the audience.

Purely theoretically, of course, it is possible to give the balls an additional charge or mass, and engrave a microcipher on the kegs, by which the presenter can determine which kegs need to be pulled out. But lotteries say they don't do any of that.

Lotteries with prizes of tens and hundreds of millions are played in bags and lottery drums; with prizes of hundreds of thousands - on random number generators; the most modest winnings - right on the tickets.

What is the trick

The trick of state lotteries is three things:

1. The money in the prize pool is the money of other lottery participants who have bought tickets. This is not the money of the state and private investors, it's just the money of all participants.
2. Of all the money that goes into the lottery system, only half goes to the formation of the prize fund. The remaining half is distributed between the state and private companies. This is directly written in the legal information on holding lotteries. Behold: "The prize fund is 50% of the proceeds."
3. The total winnings of all people from one lottery draw cannot exceed the total prize fund. If 100 people guessed all the numbers of the draw and claim a super prize of 100 million, these 100 million will be divided among 100 people, each will receive a million.

The general rule is: as soon as you buy a ticket, the lottery system wins immediately, and you - how lucky. And even if you won, you won not from the state, but from other, less fortunate participants in the lottery.

Winning the lottery is always winning at the expense of others

It does not matter at all whether you won 120 rubles, 10 thousand or 200 million rubles. No matter how much you win, the lottery system has already earned several times more, and you received this money from hundreds of thousands of other people who did not win. The trick is that there is no trick.

You can clearly see how lotteries work in our video.

What is the probability of cheating

Lottery regulars may claim that the lottery system is cheating them: they collect evidence of fraud, complain to the courts and build conspiracy theories on forums. But so far, the courts and official expertise do not recognize that lottery players are cheating.

Lottery equipment has been tested, certified and complies with international lottery equipment standards. There is an entire industry that manufactures gambling equipment, and these enterprises are very careful to ensure that all their devices give a smooth random result.

Some lottery draws are broadcast on TV in a tape, and there is indeed room for fraud. But it's unclear why this should be done if the lottery company has already made money, whatever the prize.

There are stories on YouTube of people who, according to them, did not receive their winnings due to technical problems. How they end is unknown.

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What is the probability of winning

The probability of winning a significant amount in the lottery is measured in tiny fractions of a percent. That is, the probability is not zero, but insufficient to somehow rely on it. And, unlike the probability of raising your salary or collecting a reliable investment portfolio, you do not influence the probability of winning the lottery in any way.

Most lotteries are set up in such a way that the more you guess, the more you can claim. For a little guessed numbers, you most often get a small fixed prize, for a lot - you claim a part of a more serious prize. An example is the "5 out of 36" lottery. In it you need to guess five numbers from one field and one number from the second, in total 6 numbers.

How much money can you get in the lottery "5 out of 36"

2 numbers out of 6

80 R

800 R

8000 R

from 100 000 R

from 3 000 000 R

The first three prizes are fixed and guaranteed, the other two are distributed among all guessers and cannot be lower than the guaranteed minimum. For example, if the lottery has a super prize of 100 million rubles and 20 people win the super prize, then everyone will receive 5 million. In reality, however, this almost never happens.

In practice, the chances of winning something significant are one in millions, and the average chance of getting your money back is one in eight. When you play the lottery, you will, on average, only make money once out of eight. Here are the lottery odds calculations from the Stoloto website.

Your chances in the Stoloto lottery

Gosloto "4 out of 20"

Win the maximum

win something

Gosloto "6 out of 45"

Win the maximum

win something

Gosloto "5 out of 36"

Win the maximum

win something

Gosloto "7 out of 49"

Win the maximum

win something

Sportloto "6 out of 49"

Win the maximum

win something

It must be understood that the mathematical probability makes sense only on giant samples and is meaningless on small ones. For example, if you play "6 out of 45" and bought 8.14 million tickets, this does not mean that you will definitely win a super prize. But if you look at the 81.4 million tickets sold, chances are you'll find about 10 tickets that won this super prize.

To increase the chances, an extended bet is used: for example, at least 4 numbers must be marked on the ticket, and 8 are marked. But with each additional marked number, the cost of the ticket increases: for example, if in the “4 out of 20” lottery, mark not 4 in each field, but 8 numbers, the ticket price will exceed 300 thousand rubles and the site will not sell it because of the limit on one operation.

How to read odds of winning

Psychological trick: read not "Chance to win at least something - 1 in 57", but "Chance to lose - 98.25%".

Another good example: the chance of not winning the super prize in the 6 out of 49 lottery is 99.999992849%.

Is someone winning?

Since millions of people participate in lotteries throughout Russia every day, no, no, yes, and there is a lucky one. In February, a certain Yuri N. took 267 million from the 6 out of 45 lottery.

The Stoloto website contains the stories of the winners, but you need to understand that these are dozens of victories out of billions of tickets sold. Many winners boast in their reports that they have been playing regularly for several years and regularly betting more than a thousand rubles. Imagine how much money they spent all the time on all those tickets.

What does it mean when they say "Every second ticket wins"

In promoting the lottery, the organizers put pressure on the fact that there are many winners and there are more and more. In the New Year's draw of Russian Lotto, they promised that every second ticket would win, and the prize fund - 2 billion. As a result, 42.5 million tickets were bought for the New Year's draw. Won 18.9 million tickets. Strictly speaking, this is not every second, but close.

Under the words “Every second ticket wins”, the organizer means that every second ticket will pay off. To put it simply, out of two tickets for 100 rubles, only one will bring 100 rubles of winnings. The phrase "every second ticket wins" also means "every second ticket loses."

In the Russian Lotto New Year's draw, out of 42.5 million tickets purchased, only 158 tickets brought in more than 131 rubles.

One of those who worked on this article bought 5 tickets for different draws of the Russian Lotto and the Golden Horseshoe, in which the numbers almost did not repeat. They cost 500 R. The victory was brought by 2 tickets out of 5, the co-author received 200 R and did not get rich.

taxes

The likelihood that you will win some significant amount in the lottery is so small that we will not even write about taxation. Read better

Is it possible to forge a ticket

Lotteries do not want you to fake a ticket, so they came up with a security system.

When you buy a ticket, you mark the numbers for the game on it. These numbers are immediately entered into the electronic database - the ticket is registered. Now the lottery player knows who you are, what numbers you bet on, what circulation and what ticket number you have on hand. This applies to both paper and electronic tickets - everyone registers.

When registering, you may be asked for a mobile number to which the winning code will be sent - this is also a means of protection. This is how the lottery system gets to know you better.

If you buy a paper ticket and mark additional numbers in it after the drawing, it will not pass the authenticity check - there will be other numbers in the database, the ticket will be invalidated. If you find a lottery ticket on the street, but it is not registered to your phone, you will not be able to receive the winnings either.

The only way to fake a lottery ticket is to hack the servers of the lottery organizers and fake information about your ticket. But this must be done in the very first fraction of a second after the drawing - between the time the winning combination fell out and the time the system scanned the database in search of winning tickets. It seems to be fantasy.

Can the winnings not be returned?

There are stories on the network that Stoloto conducts draws dishonestly, does not pay money to the winners, or performs actions similar to fraud. However, in judicial practice with the participation of Stoloto, there is not a single case when Stoloto would be found guilty of dishonest pranks. So it is impossible to argue that lottery operators and distributors are deceiving players.

Decide for yourself whether to trust these people.

Remember

1. The lottery system won the moment you bought the ticket. Whether you win is unknown.
2. The chances of winning are better calculated as the chances of losing. Sobering.
3. If the organizer of the lottery says that he will win every second ticket, then every second ticket will pay off, and not bring a large sum. Accordingly, on every second ticket you will lose money.
4. There are no schemes to win the lottery. If you buy several tickets, make sure that the numbers do not repeat, this will help make sure that at least one ticket pays off.
5. Raise your salary through negotiation or start your own business - ventures with a much better chance of success than the lottery.

How to win the lottery? The soldier who does not dream of becoming a general is bad. To paraphrase, we get: "Everyone who has bought a lottery ticket dreams of hitting a big jackpot." What are the chances of winning? And in general, does it make sense to buy tickets in the hope of winning? And the most important question that worries most players is whether there are strategies that allow you to increase your chances when playing. Read on and find out.

The biggest winnings in Russia and the world

First, let's see how much money people have won in the lottery here and abroad.

Breaking the big jackpot in the lottery is unlikely, but quite real. And a lot of “lucky ones” confirm this. Having received several million by chance, they immediately changed their lifestyle, reaching a fairly stable financial position that helped them live life to the fullest and not think about where and how to make money. It is these examples of winners that push the majority to buy lottery tickets in the hope of catching luck by the tail.

The biggest wins in Russia

So, who are they - lottery winners?

951 thousand in 2008 was won by a resident of Togliatti. According to him, he bought lottery tickets for 23 years. During this time, he developed his own strategy for guessing numbers. But strangely enough, the correct combination came to him in a dream. After receiving the winnings, he announced that he would continue to play the lottery.

A resident of a small village in the Kurgan region became richer by exactly a million. Luck smiled at him in January 2008. He instantly became the richest guy in the village and an enviable groom.

In 2011, the jackpot went to the Samara region. A 27-year-old resident who spent only 100 rubles on a purchase became richer by as much as 2.5 million. The money was spent on the purchase of real estate.

4 million - this is the amount won by a married couple from the Samara region. They spent all the money on a good cause - the construction of the church.

30 million resident of Ufa won on New Year's Eve - December 30, 2001. At that time it was the biggest win in Russia. In total, 6 tickets were bought, one of which became lucky. Not only the whole of Ufa, but also the whole country learned about the record win. A lot of money that suddenly fell from the sky turned the family's head. Funds began to be spent thoughtlessly: alcohol, gambling, entertainment. As a result, 10 years after the win, the family spent almost all the money and began to live almost as modestly as before the significant date.

35 million went to a resident of Moscow in 2009. A little more than 500 rubles were spent on tickets. The man used this money to set up a business in the village where he was from.

100 million rubles was won in 2009 by a resident of the suburbs of St. Petersburg Albert Bagrakyan. A native of Armenia, who emigrated to Russia in 2001, did not hide either his name or appearance. Moreover, 2 years after winning, he gave a detailed interview to the press - how much and on what he spent all his winnings.

The money was spent on the construction of a hotel, the purchase and decoration of several apartments, the purchase of premium cars (for myself and relatives). 2 million was donated to charity. Albert lent about 12 million to his friends. By the way, almost no one returned the debt to him. Well, the rest of the money went to pay taxes.

The winnings of 184 million went in February 2014 to a resident of Omsk. The man spent 810 rubles on a happy purchase. It is not known how his fate turned out, but he planned to leave to live in warmer climes, having bought a house on the seashore.

The biggest lottery win in Russian history was 358 million rubles. It happened during the drawing of the Gosloto draw in February 2016. The winner - a resident of Novosibirsk, for obvious reasons, decided not to advertise his identity.

The biggest lottery winnings in the world

The biggest wins in Russia are hundreds of millions. The situation is similar in the world, only the amounts here are calculated in dollars (euro, pounds). As a result, in absolute terms, winning the lottery in developed countries can bring the lucky ones 50-100 times more than in our country. The explanation is quite simple - the cost of lottery tickets abroad is many times higher and the circulation of sold out lotteries exceeds Russian lotteries by dozens of times, so we get phenomenal prize funds.

• 425 million single-handedly went to a pensioner from California in 2014. It is noteworthy that for almost a month grandfather did not declare his victory to the organizers of the lottery. He showed up to collect his prize on April Fool's Day, wearing a Star Wars-themed T-shirt that read "May the fortune of the Jedi be with me."
• $488 million were raffled among themselves by 3 participants in 2013
• $587 million in 2012. The prize fund was shared by 2 winners.
• 590 million went to a resident of Florida when drawing a jackpot in 2013. This is the largest win ever won by a single winner.
• $640 million in 2012. The prize was divided between 3 lucky ones.

The largest jackpot was drawn in 2016. The total amount was (and this is no joke) a mind-blowing $1.5 billion!!! It was divided between the three winners. Each received $528 million.

Money generator - what's inside

The lottery is a well-built business based on the desire of people to get rich quick and on simple mathematical statistics. The organizers of the lottery form the prize fund from cash receipts from sold tickets. Moreover, this amount is never equal to the proceeds from the sale. A certain part, usually half, immediately goes to current expenses (maintaining current activities, printing tickets, distribution, salaries to employees, advertising, and others) and, of course, to the pocket of the organizers, in the form of net profit.

It turns out that only part of the money goes to the draw. And if only half. In some lotteries, the share of raffled cash prizes is only 35-40% of all funds collected for the draw. The result is an initially unfavorable prospect for the participants. This is called a negative mathematical expectation. When the invested amounts are obviously greater than the total prize pool. It is on this that almost all gambling games are built. A vivid example is roulette in a casino. But playing in a casino is more profitable than buying lottery tickets.

Simplified, the lottery can be represented as the following picture. 3 people invest 10,000 rubles each and want to play the received 30 thousand among themselves. The winner takes all. To do this, they invite an independent point guard. He takes 15,000 for his services. As a result, the “lucky one” will get only the remaining 15 thousand rubles. Silly, isn't it. But it is precisely the role of such an intermediary distributing winnings that the lottery, represented by its organizers, performs.

The only advantage is the accumulated jackpot, which can be carried over to the next draw, gradually increasing in size. As a result, it can significantly exceed the amount of tickets sold in circulation.

Types of lotteries

From all the variety of opportunities presented, a simple person can blow the roof off. There are 2 simple tips here:

1. Play only in domestic lotteries, so as not to go to another country to receive a win.
2. Select only the most popular draws. First, it is to talk about the honesty of the organizers. Secondly, they usually have a very solid prize pool.

Conventionally, all lotteries can be divided into 2 categories:

Instant

The most simple. The result can be seen immediately after buying a ticket. Information about winning (or not winning) is already indicated on the ticket. It is enough just to erase the protective layer. Small prizes, usually up to 3 - 5 thousand, can be received immediately without leaving the cash desk - at the place of purchase. For large events, please contact the organizers. There is only one drawback - this is the possibility of manipulating the prize fund by the organizer, namely, large winnings. Winning tickets may simply not go on sale or come in a smaller amount.

There is another nuance. The organizers, releasing tickets for sale, cannot precisely determine in advance what percentage of the circulation will be sold: 100, 50 or only 20%. And prize tickets for a certain amount must be printed in advance. There are of course certain data based on past sales statistics. But in order not to get 10 million in the prize fund, and only 2 million worth of tickets sold and 3 million worth of winning tickets purchased, the organizers are insuring themselves by reducing the number and amount of winning tickets to a very modest figure.

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The advantage is a fairly high probability of lucky tickets falling out. And although the size of such winnings is very small (usually 5-10 times the cost of a ticket), there are a lot of them.

Circulation

More popular than instant ones. They, in turn, are divided into 2 types. Some already have a printed set of numbers. For others, the participant is given the right to choose the combinations of numbers he likes. And although the probability of winning in both cases is the same, it is the latter that avid lovers of draws prefer when you can influence the results yourself (or so they think).

Chances of winning the lottery

Everyone who buys the coveted lottery ticket hopes to hit the jackpot. Well, at least win a large sum of money. What are the real chances of winning? What is the probability of winning the lottery?

If we take such popular lotteries as 5 out of 36 or 6 out of 45, then the probability of winning directly depends on the number of numbers in the draw. If the probability of guessing only 2 numbers is 1 to 8 in the 5 out of 36 lottery, then to get the main prize you need to guess all 5 numbers. And here the probability of choosing the right combinations is reduced by almost 50 thousand times and will be 1: 376,992.

The chances of winning in various lotteries depend on the number of guessed numbers and the range of numbers involved in the draw. Increasing just one number to draw the main prize immediately reduces the probability of winning by dozens of times.

A joke on the subject.

Old Abram in his prayers asked God every day:

God! Help me win the lottery!

A month, a year, 10 years have passed. And then one day, kneeling down to pray and asking for help, Abram heard the voice of God:

— Abram! Give me a chance! Buy at least once a lottery ticket!

Here is the math showing the odds of hitting winning combinations on the most popular lotteries.

5 out of 36

6 out of 45

7 out of 49

It turns out that the greatest chance to hit the jackpot in Gosloto is “5 out of 36”, but the prize fund here is the lowest of the above. The probability of winning the 7 out of 49 lottery is 230 times less, but the prize fund is also more significant.

In order to understand which lottery is the most profitable to play, you just need to calculate the probability of winning per one ruble invested.

The following data is currently available:

We received the amount of winnings for each invested ruble. But the probability of hitting the jackpot is different for everyone. We need to equalize the odds of winning the top prize for all three lotteries. How to do it? Increase the amount of money invested in 2 other lotteries.

For example. If the chance of winning is 10% with a ticket price of 100 rubles, by spending 200 rubles and buying 2 tickets, we increase the probability of winning to 20%, with an investment of 300 rubles - up to 30%, and so on. Let's do the same with our examples.

The highest probability of winning in Gosloto is 5 out of 36 - 1: 376,922. Accordingly, we need to increase investments for other lotteries by buying more tickets, thereby leveling the probability for all three draws.

The result is the following data:

We got some pretty unexpected results. With the same probability of winning, the most profitable lottery turned out to be 5 out of 36. The difference with the last one (7 out of 49) is almost 230 times.

How to win the lottery - 5 effective tricks

Hundreds of studies have been conducted on the topic of increasing the likelihood of winning the lottery. Throughout the history of the existence of this type of draws, everyone, from ordinary players to scientists, is trying to find a winning system that allows you to get money guaranteed. Well, or at least significantly increase the chances of success. Thousands of different variations have been developed, from the simplest to the most complex, using the latest computer technology.

But as time has shown, it is impossible to create a profitable system. The chance to win by choosing numbers according to your own algorithms and random numbers is the same. And it doesn't matter if you bought a lottery ticket for the first time in your life or have been playing for 20 years, everyone has the same chances.

The probability of being struck by lightning in a person is 1 in 600,000. This is dozens of times lower than the probability of hitting the jackpot. But people play.... and win!!!

However, do not rush to get upset. There are a number of tricks and tricks that allow you to gain some advantage over other players. You need to be clear right away. They will not affect the probability of winning in any way, they will not make it higher or lower. Everyone has the same chance. But you can achieve a significant increase in potential winnings for the same money spent.

When some will buy tickets for 100 rubles, hoping to win 5-10 thousand or even 30 million, you will have the opportunity to receive amounts 2-10-50 times higher with the same money.

Play against everyone

On the ticket, you need to choose the numbers that other participants use the least. The meaning of the strategy is that when winning combinations with popular numbers fall out, the prize is divided among several participants. It can be 2 and 100 and 1000 people. If a combination with unpopular numbers falls out, then a much smaller number of people will participate in the division. In some cases, the number of winning people can be reduced by dozens of times with one category of winnings. And it is better to divide the prize among 5 people than 50 or even 100.

What numbers to choose? Let's go from the opposite. The range from 1 to 31 is 70% more common than others. This is due to the habit of people to associate everything with significant dates, first of all, of course, this is a birthday: 12 months in a year, 31 days in a month, the year of birth is numbers from 0 to 10.

Numbers 6 and 13 are considered bad.

Even numbers are chosen less frequently than odd numbers.

Another pattern is the choice by most people of numbers that are not next to each other on the ticket: neither horizontally nor vertically. According to the theory of probability, all numbers have exactly the same chance of falling out. Whether it's 1,2,3 or 5, 15,27,31, the system doesn't care.

Numbers from the first half of the ten (21, 33, 14) are chosen a little more often than from the last (28, 19, 29, 46).

By choosing unpopular numbers and combinations, you can increase the amount of potential winnings several times at once.

Increased Grand Prize

Another way to increase the chances of winning is to not play the jackpot. The amount increases with each draw and, accordingly, the amount of winnings for each invested ruble becomes higher. Therefore, in such circulations it is better to buy lottery tickets for a large amount.

Example. Every week you participate in the drawing of 5,000 million rubles by buying one ticket for 100 rubles. For several months, the main prize was not drawn and amounted to 100,000 million rubles. Since the probability of winning in all draws is the same, but the amount of winnings has increased by 20 times, it is more expedient to buy not one, but several tickets each draw.

It is better not to buy tickets at all (and save up money) until the prize fund grows several times. And at the time of its strong increase on the accumulated money to buy 10-20-30 tickets at a time. After we decide on the lucky one, we again go into "hibernation" and save up money until the right moment.

Distribution circulation

If during the year, no one was able to win the main prize, then a distribution draw is held. This is required by law.

If the main winner is not determined again, then the entire jackpot is distributed among all participants who have received any winning combinations in the appropriate proportion. Conventionally, if the prize fund was 50 million, and the main prize was 200,000 million, then the real winnings of each player grow 5 times at once.

Experienced players always participate in such draws. After all, this is a real chance to get much more for the same money.

The same combination

Instead of constantly inventing new combinations of numbers with each new draw, you need to select the desired set for yourself in advance and use it in all further draws. And then it remains only to wait for a happy occasion. Experienced players can also analyze the archive of past winnings and exclude all previously repeated combinations. And from the rest, choose the one you want. The probability of falling out the second time similar combinations is very unlikely, especially those consisting of 5-6 numbers.

Faith in luck

This is not a scientific method, rather a psychological one. But it’s not for nothing that they say: “Thoughts are material” or “To become a millionaire, you need to feel like a million.” There is an opinion that everything in the world is interconnected: thoughts, emotions, actions. And your behavior and attitude directly affect your life. There are many examples in life when the desires or fears of a person materialized. This is all very interestingly described in the movie "Secret". For those who haven't seen it, I recommend it.

Therefore, when buying lottery tickets, you don’t need to say to yourself: “I’ll lose, it’s not scary, the loss is not great. The ticket costs only 100 rubles.” Think positively, sincerely believe in luck and you will be happy.

A joke on the subject.

The teacher says: “Children, there is no God! Let's show him a fig in the sky! All the children show, one Moishe is not.

Teacher: "Moisha! Why don't you show?

Moishe: “Maria Ivanovna! If there is no God, then to whom then to show? And if it exists….. why show it then?”

Tax on winnings

Few people think about taxes when buying lottery tickets. And by the way - their timely payment is the duty of every citizen. At least that's how it is written in the tax code of Russia. To pay or not to pay, we will leave on the conscience of the “lucky ones” who received the winnings. But knowing for what and how much you need to pinch off your winnings in favor of the state will not hurt.

Absolutely all types of winnings are subject to taxation. But here they are divided into 2 types.

1. Based on risk, sweepstakes and related to the direct costs of the participants. This is primarily about buying lottery tickets. All winnings received are taxed at a rate of 13%. And it does not matter how much you won: 100 million or 100 rubles.
2. Incentive lotteries. These are raffles related to the promotion of their products. It is usually held in stores, hypermarkets and large companies in order to attract new customers and increase their confidence. Prizes are usually not money, but various gifts, vouchers and other goods. The whole thing is taxed already at a rate of as much as 35% of the value of the winnings.

The amount of winnings up to 4 thousand rubles is not subject to taxation. Also, this amount falls under the category of tax deductions and reduces the total amount of taxes. That is, for example, you won a phone for 10,000 rubles, then a tax of 35% must be paid not from the full amount, but from a decrease of 4,000. As a result, the tax will be 35% of 6,000 rubles - 2,100. And not 3,500 rubles.

How to pay tax?

There are only 2 options: lucky or unlucky.

Usually, lottery organizers are tax agents and transfer the necessary amounts to the budget for you. You get your winnings in your hands minus the tax withheld. In that case, you're in luck (if you didn't want to pay taxes, you're out of luck).

The second option is self-payment of money to the budget. To do this, you need to fill out a declaration, submit it to the tax office at the place of residence and, of course, transfer money to the budget.

Finally

Statistics say that everyone has an equal chance of winning. And it is impossible to influence the probability of winning numbers. The only leverage available to players is the ability to change the amount of potential winnings, when for the same money you can win much larger amounts than other players.

This is especially true for regular players who regularly buy lottery tickets and have some statistics on winnings. Following simple tips will allow them to buy tickets at the right time, in more profitable lotteries and profitable draws.

For example, if a player during the year, buying one ticket every week for 100 rubles, won a total of 3,000 rubles in small winnings, then using the tips above, it is quite possible to increase the amount of winnings several times at similar costs.

The priority rules are the choice of lotteries and draws with the highest winnings for each ruble invested, or the game against the crowd, choosing the most unpopular number combinations in the ticket.

Then you are probably interested in additional earnings without investing on the Internet. Let's not be altruists and tell ourselves the truth: everyone who is interested in gambling wants to win money, and not just to kill time in front of the screen of their own computer monitor. As you know, free cheese only happens in a mousetrap, and then you willy-nilly think about how realistic it is, without investing your own funds, to win right now, and even cash out at least something.

At first glance, it may seem quite reasonable that it is practically unrealistic, they say, which casinos or poker rooms will distribute their hard-earned money to everyone left and right. But, as practice shows, when registering a new client on their project, many online companies offer various bonuses that can be the first deposit.

How to win money online without investment?

Let's see how you can win money without investing your own funds. So, if you want to get rich through the Internet right now, you need to know which online services will help you with this.

Free online lottery

Today, it is quite possible to win money without investing online, and online lotteries will help you with this. There are quite a few of them, and they offer everyone who wants to register for free and become a participant in the drawing of cash or valuable gifts. Each player is invited to try their luck by guessing the maximum number of numbers.

money faucet

Is there a money faucet? Imagine that this is possible on the Internet. Faucets are, as a rule, simple one-page sites with a simple registration, where visitors are invited to perform a targeted action and get real money for it. As a rule, this is either visiting various sites for a short period of time, or (which is more common). After completing a simple task, the user receives money, and instantly to his wallet. Payment is made mainly in the electronic equivalent of the Russian ruble or in cryptocurrency - (Satoshi).

Advice: Recently, making money without investing in collecting bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies has become very popular. For example, not so long ago, the 1B rate was $220, and today it reaches $780. If you collect hourly bonuses on your own, then earnings will be a penny. However, no one has yet canceled the referral system, and the more users you have registered using your link, the greater the daily (!) Profit. It is easy to find referrals on VK, Odnoklassniki, Instagram, Facebook, etc. If you are interested, then you can try to dial refs there. To do this, you need to post posts with your link in thematic communities, on free bulletin boards (in the same VKontakte) or in public. With due diligence, the result will not be long in coming, but you should remember that you can be banned for outright spamming, which will require you to register a new account.

Participation in competitions

If you want to win money without investing, you can find a lot of services on the Internet, as well as forums where various contests are constantly held. Their essence lies in the performance of simple tasks for which customers or webmasters are willing to pay real money. You will have to do fairly simple work, such as guessing what score the football team will play, solving a puzzle or riddle, or simply writing a comment on a post. By the way, the last type of activity that does not require investments is considered one of the most profitable. If you know how to express your thoughts creatively and can comment on articles, movie reviews, or just express your opinion about a new product or service, then it’s quite possible to win the competition and make money online right now.

Trading

I would go to traders - let them teach me! How much has already been said on the Internet about Forex and binary options, and yet it is one of the most profitable activities. We note right away that it is absolutely real to win money here, but for this you need to have a considerable amount of knowledge and good luck. We will not describe in detail the opportunities that this or that broker opens up for each trader, the only thing that can be stated with certainty is that there will always be enough space for everyone to receive unlimited income on the securities and currencies exchange. It is known that the profit of many experienced traders is more than tens of thousands of dollars every month, and many of them started their online business on the Internet without any investments. You can register right now on the website of any broker and receive a no deposit bonus to your account. Also, exchange participants are offered a registration bonus, with which they can immediately start trading, as well as withdraw earned money to an electronic wallet.

Advice: many brokers offer their clients an additional bonus that allows them to trade and win money on the stock exchange online without investing personal funds. Its essence lies in writing posts on the broker's forum. The cost of one comment varies from 10 to 50 cents. When the amount reaches $100 (usually), the money will be immediately transferred to your trading account. This deposit is exactly what you need to bet on, since it is a good starting capital for successful trading. As soon as you win an amount that exceeds the amount of the bonus received (which is not so difficult, especially since you can find a lot of good training video material on the Internet), you can safely withdraw the money in a way convenient for you.

Online casino

This is where fans of getting quick money right now have something to profit from. Connoisseurs of gaming entertainment will find all kinds of exciting roulette options here and will be able to tickle their nerves on slot machines. When registering, everyone receives a certain bonus in the form of money, so it is quite possible to win without investments right now. But it is worth remembering that every online casino values ​​its potential customers, so many of them hold daily contests with the main prize (about 10 thousand rubles). To do this, you need to take part in a free tournament and, if Fortune smiles (to the persistent, she usually turns the necessary side, and not like in a well-known song), the money will quickly go to your account.

Free poker tournaments

There are a considerable number of online services on the Internet where you can not only try your hand and try to win real money right now, but also with a certain ability to do it professionally and receive solid fees. But first things first. From time to time, poker companies organize so-called freerolls for players - free tournaments, participation in which does not require an entry fee from the player. It is very possible to win in the freeroll, however, due to the large number of people who want to fight for the cash prize, the chances of winning become negligible. But as you know, there are no hopeless situations, so you can register on closed-type poker sites. To enter the room, you must have a special password, which can be obtained for free on thematic forums or in the relevant social network communities. Before participating in a freeroll in a closed poker room, you must carefully read the conditions of the tournament, since some companies provide only internal bonuses for the game, which cannot be withdrawn to an electronic wallet.

For lovers of natural

There are many websites on the Internet that offer various products or services. Visitors to such resources are invited to take part in a competition for the best post or product description (in English, of course). So the winner can win a valuable prize in the form of household goods, electronics, quality clothing and other gifts. Right now, cutting money in a quick way will not work, but you can sell it on the Internet and help out a certain amount.

Where can you really win money without investing?

Now let's go directly to the services where you can win money and, of course, withdraw it.

bookmakers

Place your bets gentlemen! Yes, this is exactly how bookmakers work, whose customers are invited to place certain bets on various events and win money.

Bookmakers provide an opportunity to earn money for absolutely every person who wants to bet on the winning of a sports team, on horse races and other events. But in order to learn how to win money here, you need to understand the very principle of operation of any office. So, you bet on the outcome of any event, while the office multiplies it by a certain coefficient. It is clear that if you win, you will receive a bet multiplied by this very coefficient. It should be remembered that it can be changed, since its value is directly affected by the number of bets made by those who want to earn. It is easy to guess that not a single online office that earns a living by gambling bets will remain in the red. Therefore, the more likely the outcome of the event, the less you earn. To attract the attention of customers, the offices also hold promotions with increased coefficients and offer a solid bonus upon registration, by putting which you can earn good money. It is up to you to decide whether to withdraw them from the first win or to think over a strategy to increase your capital. In this case, when receiving a bonus, it is possible to make money on the Internet right now, but you should also remember about the high degree of risk, which can lead to the loss of dividends. Among the online services, Parimatch, Leon, Champions League and others have proven themselves well.

Sports betting

Another type of betting business where everyone can win is sweepstakes. They also involve guessing events and betting a certain amount on them. The client needs to fill out a special card in which various events are presented. A person needs to predict their outcome, as well as bet a certain amount of their own money (online sweepstakes will offer you a bonus). It will be possible to play on it, however, you should know that, unlike bookmakers, sweepstakes do not use odds, and all bets of players form a single pool. The more events the client guesses, the higher the winnings will be. It is also worth noting that sweepstakes remove their percentage from the profits, and the rest of the money is divided among the winners in different shares.

Economic games

Here, lovers of easy money should be very careful and, as they say, do not rush headlong into the pool in search of easy money. The fact is that most online economic games offer customers a sign-up bonus, which supposedly can be used to purchase internal game assets in order to generate income in the future. The essence of the game is to attract as many investors as possible who will pay real money. Suppose you grow tea on your plantation (maybe freebie lovers know games like Golden Tee and others) and already count in your mind the income from your own investments, but then the unlucky player will be disappointed, which consists in the lack of payment points (or other gaming assets). As a result, when investing a tidy sum of their money, the player simply will never get them back. This is so, since these same payment points are dozens of times less, and in order to withdraw funds (or, at worst, recapture your hard-earned money), you will have to attract a considerable number of solvent referrals, from whose deposit you will be awarded points. read

Is it possible to win the lottery and how to do it? What are the best lotteries to play? As life practice shows, winning the lottery is an event that can happen to anyone.

Good day, dear readers of HiterBober.ru business magazine. Alexander Berezhnov and Vitaly Tsyganok are with you.

Winning some local lotteries and "intellectual casinos" ourselves, we summarized the topic of winning the lottery, talked with friends who regularly raise good money in this business and presented our vision of this issue.

You don't have to have a college degree, be the son of wealthy parents, or finish school with a gold medal to win. To win, you need only luck and faith in your own luck. It is faith that makes a person buy a lottery ticket.

Some lucky people need to buy a lottery ticket only once to win, others buy lotteries regularly (sometimes for several years in a row), until they finally receive a reward for patience and perseverance.

These questions are of interest to many - not only avid players and gamblers - read our article about working methods and profitable technologies for playing the lottery, as well as the biggest winnings in history.

1. Is it possible to win the lottery and what you need to know for this

Skeptics believe that only lottery organizers remain the winners, optimists believe that Sportloto, Gosloto and other popular lotteries are a real way to gain real financial well-being.

Let's say right away that, of course, it is possible to win the lottery, and each player has the chance of taking the jackpot. Probability theory and mathematics with basic statistics allow for the possibility of winning any lottery ticket at any time.

However, in game theory there is also such a thing as distance, and it is the distance that is the main obstacle on the way of ordinary players to the desired wealth. In other words, a fair amount of time can pass from the moment you expect a win to the moment you win. You can play the lottery for a day, a month, a year, ten years - and the probability of winning will always be about the same.

In the article we will try not to touch on the "mystical" aspect of the game, but it should still be mentioned.

There are players who believe in spells for good luck, in a series of victories, in lucky days and numbers, in rabbit feet and rituals. There are many films, books and TV shows devoted to examples of incredible luck. However, in reality, everything is more prosaic: when playing the lottery, we are dealing with the mathematical theory of the game and nothing more.

Of course, faith in one's own strengths and healthy optimism are conditions that work more as a plus than a minus. A person who believes in luck is more likely to be right than a hopeless pessimist.

Currently, online lotteries have become very popular, which almost do not differ from the usual "paper" and offline lotteries.

EuroMillions is a Friday lottery for players across Europe. Players from nine countries take part in the game, including Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the USA.

The prize consists of bets placed in each of these nine countries, and the top prize starts at 15 million euros. If the jackpot is not won within a week, the prize rolls over to the next week.

The biggest recorded win per person was 115 million euros and the biggest jackpot was 183 million euros. These huge jackpots have made the EuroMillions lottery one of the most successful and exciting lotteries in the world.

5. Examples of the Biggest Winners in Lottery History

There are a lot of examples of people who have received the biggest and biggest lottery winnings. If there are jackpots, then there are people who win them periodically.

Meet: the biggest winnings in the history of world and domestic lotteries.

Among domestic lotteries, the podium is occupied by Albert Begrakyan, who hit the Gosloto jackpot in the amount of 100 million rubles in 2009.

The lucky man bought lottery tickets regularly. Before winning, Albert worked as a security guard in a store.

The most successful "foreign" lottery players today are the Messners from New Jersey and Georgia truck driver Ed Neighbors.

It was these people who equally split the $390 million jackpot of the Mega Millions lottery in 2007.

In Europe, the biggest win is 185 million euros in the EuroMillions lottery: another married couple (Kristen and Colin) received the prize in 2011.

Another lucky winner is Evgeny Sidorov, who won 35 million rubles in 2009. Before winning, a native of Moscow was an avid lottery fan.

The man disposed of the money he received wisely - he organized a business in the village and bought a car.

Earn real money without leaving home - the dream of many people from all over the world. Most of them, however, are faced with a very obvious, but no less unpleasant dilemma: to get a significant income using online technologies, you need to either work hard and hard, or be extremely lucky. Everything is clear with the first option, but for those who are used to relying on chance, there are free lotteries with instant cash prizes.

So, at least, it is approved on the sites of these lotteries. Is it really possible to win money online and what are the pitfalls, will be discussed further.

Free lottery with real winnings

The short answer to the first question asked is yes. Credible online lotteries (as the name implies, all their stages take place directly on the Internet) give the site visitor the opportunity to win money without any investment. Those who want to test their luck do not need to buy a ticket and wait for the draw, as in the traditional lotto: online, the result is often visible immediately after the draw.

It is enough for a player who has free time to open his favorite Internet resource, make a few mouse clicks and get his winnings - or, depending on the circumstances, not get it. Failed to win? There is nothing to regret: participation in online lotteries is completely free, and you can play them as much as you like. And this is the second advantage of such entertainment. But online lotteries without investments also have disadvantages, and, unfortunately, there are more of them.

Problem #1 - resource blocking. In Russia, this process is largely uncontrolled, and decisions to suspend access to a particular site are poorly amenable to logic. At best, the order will include a reference to Federal Law No. 224-FZ “On State Regulation of Organizing and Conducting Gambling and on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” with the latest amendments, although to what extent it applies to free online -lotteries, even if they allow you to win real money, are still a moot point.

There are simpler options - in particular, the provider itself or one of the antivirus programs installed on a personal computer or laptop can block the resource - as a rule, due to a truly unthinkable amount of advertising on the site. A side effect is the closure of the free online lottery by the owner himself. It is quite logical: less traffic of visitors (not all players are able to bypass the blocking) - less opportunities to sell advertising space - less money from advertisers. After all, the acquisition of an advertising platform in such conditions is no longer, but rather a gamble. And if international lottery sites suffer little from closing access to them in one of the countries, then purely Russian projects will either cease to exist altogether, or will be forced to reduce the amount of winnings and raise the minimum withdrawal amount.

Problem number 2 - advertising. The second most unpleasant and completely inevitable factor. As mentioned before, online lottery owners make their living (and pay real money to players) primarily by selling advertising space. As a result, a person who has visited the site for the first time, if his head does not go round, will be very rippled in his eyes from multi-colored, flashing and sparkling and extremely intrusive advertising. She is everywhere, and that says it all.

In the absolute majority of cases, it will not be possible to solve the problem with the help of steadily gaining popularity programs and ad-blocking scripts: some online lottery sites, such as Lotzon, explicitly ask the user to disable AdBlock; others simply do not open or do not work normally. The same applies to the Ad Müncher application, no less famous in the recent past: although the Internet resource cannot track its use, the visitor can forget about the game. You will have to choose: a lot of ads and the opportunity to win real money or a "clean" but absolutely useless site. Unfortunately, there are no other options.

Problem number 3 - dishonest resource behavior. Each player, probably, at least once thought, on what grounds is he given the opportunity to play and withdraw real funds for free? The answer was given in the previous paragraph; but no one said that the owner of an online lottery would even want to share advertising revenue with visitors. It is impossible to do this without damaging the reputation, but it is easy to make it as difficult as possible to withdraw funds, thus leaving most of them in the system.

The simplest option is to allow the user to play for his own pleasure, but, by limiting the amount of allowable winnings, at the same time increase the withdrawal bar. For example, if the average amount of virtual winnings is still 50 kopecks, and you can withdraw at least 300 rubles, the player should seriously think about the advisability of such a waste of time. In the end, you can switch to other, slightly more honest online lotteries.

Another way to keep the flow of visitors at the proper level, while almost not parting with the money, is to slow down the withdrawal of funds or in some other way complicate this process. With the first example, everything is clear: if you have to wait several weeks for a win, there is a high probability that you will not receive it at all: an “unexpected” system failure will relieve the owner of the online lottery from obligations. The second case is more interesting: it is assumed that the player will receive a notice of winning not immediately, but at a certain time; the link for switching and withdrawing real money will be available within a day or even several hours. The lover of entertainment did not keep track - he potentially lost his funds, and who is to blame for this, except himself?

Problem #4 - Fraudulent Sites and Pages with Malicious Code. If in previous cases the visitor at least dealt with a real online lottery (albeit dishonest and unprofitable, but still free and safe), then in this he risks his finances and the “health” of his own computer. The variability of these sites is extremely high: depending on the imagination and skills of their creator, a careless user can not only infect the system with a virus, but also part with personal data and, in turn, become a source of income for someone.

The solution is simple: do not trust unverified sites, do not enter personal data into their fields and use an antivirus program that will block malicious scripts before they have time to damage the system.

Important: online lottery - although formally free, but still a gambling game. This means that an overly enthusiastic or self-confident user has a real chance to part with his money instead of getting it from the system.

Of course, not a single site, with the exception of the previously mentioned fraudulent ones, will require a visitor to invest in the simplest game: this is a serious blow to reputation, very often long-term and not bad at all. But how much will a "pure" player who does not donate anything to the system get? That's right, a little more than he invested himself. Yes, it is real to win, and the withdrawal of funds can be fair and fast; but what is the use of this if the user receives 400-500 rubles per month? There are, of course, more optimistic options, but they do not change the essence of the matter: a game without investments is less profitable than “flavored” with one’s own funds.

Depending on the imagination of the developers, the system may offer to invest in "loyalty points", special chips, obtaining special features that are not available to ordinary players, and so on. Whether it is worth spending money on a ghostly opportunity to get more winnings than before, it is up to the player to decide; the main thing is not to get carried away, otherwise he will be left not only without free funds and valuable things, but also without the opportunity to continue participating in his favorite lottery.

Important: it will no longer be possible to return the money spent on additional options - the procedure for finding a beneficiary (and who said that he would be under Russian jurisdiction?) and proving the illegality of his actions is so complicated, debt and generally unpromising that no one will seriously deal with this. They will listen to the victim from their own gullibility, sympathize with him, but his appeal will not bring any real benefit.

There is a common misconception among regular and "novice" players that it is possible to beat a system using a certain algorithm or group of algorithms. In fact, this is not so, or almost so: since the online lottery is a product of cybernetics, it goes without saying that all events occurring on the site are programmed and are random only within the limits set by the creator of the program. Simply put, randomization determines what number will fall on the virtual dice rolled by the user, but not the number of dice or attempts available for rolling.

Therefore, the significant parameters of any free online lottery are set in advance and cannot be changed during the draw. The order of occurrence of potentially random events (how many bananas the scoreboard of the slot machine will show), depending on the conscientiousness of the site owner, is either really random, or predetermined by complex algorithms that are sensitive to many third-party factors. And this means that the proposed (and sometimes sold) sequences of actions supposedly guaranteeing a win do not work: after an accidental or also programmed first success, the player suddenly stops being lucky. If he has enough endurance and common sense, this will be the end of his participation in the online lottery; if not, he will now invest in the game himself, turning from a recipient into a donor. What this threatens, has already been described above.