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The internet is a wonderful thing. You may now do all kinds of things from the comfort of your own home when you used to have to go to a shop or put something within the post.
I now rent my DVDs online and they arrive throughout the post and I get my weekly groceries delivered to my door having ordered them from my list of favorites online.
The internet makes things convenient. So when I forgot to buy my lottery ticket again and missed out on a small prize, I turned to the net for help. I was surprised at what I found!
There was as I expected the ability to purchase lottery tickets online from the UK's National Lottery website. Great! No longer did I have to fiddle around with cash or get soaked within the rain going to the shop.
In fact they take care of everything - take the money through your banking account for the subscriptions automatically in order that you never miss a draw, check your numbers for you without fail and pay you any winnings!
Paying you your winnings probably does not sound like a problem - but considering that the UK National Lottery began in 1994, unclaimed prizes have accumulated to more than Ł650 million [$1.17 billion]!
Checking that your numbers have won is probably the most useful service of all - because if you don't claim it you don't get it!
A good service - convenient, easy and also fun.
Then a couple of months ago I found the next phase on - an online lottery syndicate system!
Sure - the official lottery national lottery website offers a syndicate management tool - although not like this one.
I looked at it rather sceptically as anyone having an economics degree might! But I went throughout the numbers to check anyway. I was impressed.
They operate syndicates with 49 members in each. Then they do something clever - they fix among the six numbers so that each of the 49 numbers is covered and then with 5 other randomly generated numbers they make 44 separate lines.
This really is clever - it means that you can find 44 entries and effectively the syndicate only has to match 5 of the 6 lottery draw numbers to win the jackpot - since the sixth ball shall always match.
But it's cleverer than that since the syndicate also wins more than the jackpot - another of the 44 lines will win 5 plus the bonus ball and then of-course the other 42 lines also win by matching 5 numbers! Add all those multiple wins together and divide through the number within the syndicate and also you win more than you might have done if you played solo!
In fact your odds of winning increases by 702% within the UK National Lottery Lotto draw!
And they have done the same trick with the EuroMillions draw. In the event that you are not experienced with this it really is as big as many of the multi-state lotteries in the United States of America. Why? Because 9 countries in Europe are all playing it! And more want to join in!
It's the largest tax-free lump-sum national lottery on this planet!
If you were watching the news earlier in 2006 you may have seen which it rose to an incredible Ł125m rollover (yes - that's in GBP not dollars or euros!)
Being a part on this lottery syndicate increases your chances of winning by an astounding 3600%! Increasing the odds of winning any prize to 1 in 10 and it means you may win a prize by matching just one ball!
So next time you are waiting in line to buy your lottery ticket, running the risk of losing it, or forgetting to check whether you've won, think about how the internet will make it simpler for you.