Why isn’t there a lottery game where it draws from the people’s numbers who have played, so that there would always be a winner?
Why isn’t there a lottery game where it draws from the people’s numbers who have played, so that there would always be a winner?
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Because then there would always be a winner.
Gambling exists to make the casino money, not to have winners.
It would be a lot harder to pick from a database of millions of entries and keep the fairness transparent. Picking balls from a bin is a simple process we can watch. Then too, payouts would be lower if there was always a winner.
Lotteries are to make the organization money, not play fair. There is a reason they advertise to poor people.
Those exist and are called raffles.
This is commonly done on a small scale, it’s called a 50/50 raffle
That’s called a raffle.
My state has a game like that called the Minnesota Millionaire Raffle. But it’s only 700,000 tickets and they all get sold.
That is called a raffle
A HUGE part of the attraction to the lottery is that many jackpots aren’t won and the prizes roll over, making pots bigger and bigger. The media coverage of the occasional gigantic pots do more to draw people into playing than if there was a small but guaranteed weekly prize
Because then they’d have to fight each other to the death unless someone volunteers.
(Flips through rules… cool, joke movie quotes are allowed. The actual answer is they want your money.)
Canada’s Lotto 6/49 game works exactly like that. They call it a “Gold Ball Draw”.
There is. At least in Austria and Germany. Dont know about other countries.
There are tons lottery products. One of them does work the way you said. It’s called post code lottery. When you play, you enter your post code. Then it announces the winning post code every month, from the pool that actually plays it of course.
Also. They should set a prize limit. There’s no practical difference between $25 million, $50 million, $100 million. Divide the target payout amount into $5 chunks and draw for each chunk
Because they roll the pot over and when it becomes extremely large, it attracts a lot of people to buy tickets. People are more enticed by a doubling of the prize money than they are about doubling the odds of winning, for some reason.
The types of lotteries we run are popular precisely because there isn’t always a winner. This allows the cash prizes from each round that no one won to get combined into the next round, and that means from time to time they grow really large and therefore attract a bunch of people that don’t normally play the lottery. This also gets free advertisement every time the lotto hits some large number. You wouldn’t get any of that if the lotto guaranteed a winner each round.
The Euromillions does this.
The big jackpot goes to whoever picks the draw numbers, but one person in every country gets picked to win €1m. In the UK the company that runs the lotteries even tops it up to £1m for the British winner.
You have 6 months to claim it, and at any given time there are 5-10 unclaimed prizes in the UK&Ireland alone because some people don’t even realise the raffle exists and that their ticket was part of it.
So like a raffle?