The national lottery draws are conducted on Saturdays and Wednesdays. The first draw was back in November 1994.

The national lottery has had many TV hosts presenting the programme since being aired n television, some of them including Dale Winton, Gary Barlow, Athena Turner and Noel Edmonds.

It is known to be the UK’s biggest millionaire making game and it is said that over 70% of the UK’s population is already playing on a weekly basis and that this is continuing to increase. The lotto game is one of pure chance, people that play for profit try to research and analyse past winning numbers to create their number combination in order to increase the chances of them winning that jackpot prize.

In order to play, you select six different numbers between one and forty-nine, these are known as the main numbers, then you select another number between one and, this is known as the bonus ball. This bonus number can be the same as one of the numbers previously selected as a main number.

The draw takes place using two machines that are shaped like balls, one of them for the main numbers and the other for the bonus numbers. Each machine is filled with balls, each ball representing one of the numbers, then the machine shuffles the balls continuously throughout the selection process, one ball is selected at a time until all balls have been selected, it is the same process for the bonus ball but only one ball is selected.

To ensure all draws are 100% fair, Camelot do a series of checks which include the inspection of all balls for wear and tear so that no ball has a higher probability of being picked then others.

In order to win a cash prize you need to match a minimum of three numbers… here are the prizes available and how many numbers you have to match in order to qualify

3 numbers is a prize of £10

4 numbers is typically a prize of £65

5 numbers is typically a prize of £1,500

And 6 numbers gets you that jackpot prize which is typically around £2 million.

The chance of winning any lottery prize is determined by several factors, some of which being include the lottery design, the count of the winning numbers that are drawn and how frequent game rollovers are ( when there is no winner of the jackpot prize so it gets added to the following weeks prize fund.). Another factor is the number of tickets you own for that particular game, the more tickets you’ve purchased, the higher your chances of winning.
Chances of winning the lottery rises substantially after purchasing tickets where the numbers have been researched and analysed compared to tickets with numbers that have been selected randomly. Most professional lottery players that play for the pure interest of profit advise others that wish to begin purchasing such analysed tickets to start researching and analysis for the smaller cash prizes. This is due to the fact that the smaller prizes hold bigger odds than the big jackpot prizes. As the UK’s biggest millionaire making game (the UK lotto) and the biggest rollover game (the Euromillions) have such low odds of winning the jackpot prize, they are the most difficult to crack. The UK lotto has over 70% of the UK’s population playing on a weekly basis, all hoping to win that life changing sum of money. It is a game of chance and any chance of that jackpot win becomes improbable.
However, there are ways to improve your odds of winning. You could join one of the lottery syndicate systems available. VWD is a UK based company that is designed to enable lottery players who play for the more professional reasons, a way to increase their odds. Playing in a syndicate makes that jackpot prize that bit more probable at no extra cost. The odds for the lotto game are increased by 733% and the Euromillions game is increased by 3,600%. All winnings are divided equally between all participating players.

70% of the UK’s population are already playing the UK’s biggest millionaire making game. This continues to grow on a daily basis, each player having that ultimate aim to be the winner of that life changing sum of money.

With so many people playing, Camelot has to ensure the draws are 100% fair. In order to do this they check every ball for dents or anything else that could increase the chances of that particular ball being drawn. They do this for all their lottery games (Euro millions, daily play, thunder ball, lotto hotpicks and dream number).

With the amount of people playing and purchasing more then one ticket, odds of winning that jackpot are very small. People began playing in groups, known as a syndicate. Everyone participating would pay the same amount of money in order to buy tickets, and then any winnings from all the tickets purchased would be shared equally between all players. By joining a syndicate, players can increase their chances f winning without any extra cost.

With such high demand for syndicates, a UK company called VWD (virtual world direct) created an online syndicate system in 2002, known as e-lottery. The e-lottery opportunity has become the solution for many disputes. Creating syndicates with friends, family, and colleagues there are many disputes regarding how mach money people have put in, who is responsible for purchasing tickets, who is responsible to keep hold of and check all tickets, weather any winnings are divided equally and so on.

Joining e-lottery could make such disputes a thing of the past. All winnings are worked out and get paid automatically. Winnings are collect in your e-lottery account then around every 3 months you receive a cheque of all winnings you have accumulated over that period of time.

The beginning of the year my partner and myself decided we wanted to get more out of our lives, we want to be able to spoil our children, family and friends and in order to do this we needed a plan.

We looked at many options, many of them actually turned out to be scams, which we quickly avoided. Then a family member told us about e-lottery, at first we were a little concerned it may be another scam as we had already stumbled across a fair few. This was not the case.

As we hadn’t heard of e-lottery before, we done some research and later joined. When researching about the e-lottery we discovered that it was an online way to play the lottery within a syndicate. For those of you that are unfamiliar with what a syndicate is here’s a quick explanation, a syndicate gives people that share the same interest the ability to join a membership-based opportunity to increase their odds.

So further research led us to the information that a syndicate is a great way to increase the chances we had of winning any cash prizes with the lottery without actually costing us any more money. However all winnings are shared out equally between the players in the winning syndicate, but you do win the smaller cash prizes more often.

Since we joined, our syndicate has won over £900 which we have won a share of.

We recently received our very first cheque of these winnings. The amount wasn’t huge but it was still exciting for us. It allowed us to buy a slide for our two year old twins, just seeing the eyes sparkle with excitement and huge smiles on their face made it all worth while. We are now looking forward to winning more cash prizes to spoil them further.

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With the UK lotto being the UK’s biggest millionaire making game that has well over 70% of the population playing on a weekly basis, I wonder how many people actually ask themselves how fair the draws are. Many of them have 1 question only that the ask themselves and that is how would they spend their winnings? I’ve done it myself. But for those of you that do ask that very question… How fair is a lottery draw? I have the answers right here.

To ensure that the lottery draws are always 100% fair, Camelot go as far as to check every ball for wear and tear so that no ball is more likely to be picked than any of the others. They also have statistics experts analyzing draw data to ensure any bias is spotted and investigated thoroughly.

Another question I have asked myself is what happens if I purchase a lottery ticket in store and win a cash prize. Do I take it to the shop I purchased it from? What if the retailer refuses to pay me my winnings?

If you purchase your lottery tickets through one of the thousands of lottery retailers and you win a large sum of money it may not be possible to return to that retailer to claim your prize.  In order to resolve any such dispute an all to the national lottery line will help you to claim your prize.

Thousands of people like to research a product before they purchase it, many household electrical items sold online have the option to have a review written so you can generally get an idea of how good a product is just by reading a few of the reviews. This isn’t the case with the lottery, many people see the winners announced in the papers or hear it on the news and that acts as a review for the majority of people.

We were browsing the news this morning, and, it occured to us that winning the lottery can sometimes be not such a good thing. This has been talked and written about over and over, but why is it that some people just end up miserable after winning large amounts of money?

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In 2005 Keith Gough won £9 million on the National Lottery, he immediately went on a spending spree, blowing millions on property, drinking and horse racing. According to Nick Britten of The Daily Telegraph he even blew a fair whack of cash on an executive box over at Aston Villa.

In This article, Nick shares the news of Keith’s death, apparently caused by a heart attack caused by his money worries…

Last year Gough said he regretted winning the money.He said:

My life was brilliant. But the lottery has ruined everything. What’s the point of having money when it sends you to bed crying?

Apparently Keith also became a target for fraudsters, In June 2009, James Prince was jailed for 3 years after being found guilt of two counts of fraud of and count of money laundering. Prince took figures of around £700,000 from Keith Gough.

It just goes to show that you gotta be careful when it comes to a lottery win!

As you can well imagine, we’re serious about Lottery Syndicates over here!

We’ve been noticing a few sites advertising their euromillions syndicates within Google Adwords, particularly on the content network recently (that just means web sites and blogs that show google ads, not the main google search results pages) and frankly, when we’ve been along to check out those sites we’ve got a little scared!

It would seem that there’s a few companies that have decided to pretty much copy what VWD are doing, to be honest, it’s hardly surprising and VWD should probably take it as a bit of a compliment that someone would want to copy their smarter way to play.

We recommend you run a few checks before you choose to play in an online lottery syndicate, here’s a few suggestions:

1. Go straight to the contact page of the website and make sure you can get hold of customer services. Any company that takes your money and promises to put you in a lottery syndicate ought to be able to handle a telephone call, even if it’s only during office hours. Phone them up and ask a few questions about the syndicates, find out if they’re professional and if they are real.

2. Make sure that if you decide to play that you are instantly dropped into a lottery syndicate. If the company you choose to play with doesn’t then you know you’re likely to be headed for problems. We’ve noticed some sites that won’t issue your syndicate place for 48 hours, that tells us that there’s a whole load of manual intervention going on and the systems are probably not automated and very likely not to be up to scratch.

3. Just because a website advertises on Google doesn’t mean that Google approves of the company! Seriously, Google will quite happily take advertisers money and they’ll even supply some templates and bits and pieces to make the ads look very nice but they won’t ‘advocate and approve’ a website that advertises with them.

4. This applies to ANY online transaction… DO NOT PUT YOUR CREDIT CARD DETAILS INTO ANY WEB PAGE THAT IS NOT SECURED. We feel really, really strongly about this because it is so important. Online retailers make a big fuss about this because it is SO IMPORTANT. If you go typing your credit card details into a page that is not secured you are running the risk of being ripped off, any company that encourages and allows you to enter your details into a page that is not secured is down right irresponsible and completely unprofessional, and, if that’s the company’s attitude to YOUR ONLINE SECURITY then think very very carefully before you do anything. How do you know if a web page is secured? Generally, you see the padlock appear in Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or whatever your favourite browser happens to be, also, the web address begins with HTTPS not just HTTP, have a read of this page if you need more info:  http://info.ssl.com/article.aspx?id=10068 and please, head this warning and help put a stop to online fraud and identity theft.

5. Insure the company’s lottery syndicate you join is a member of the lotteries council or other such governing or regulatory body, this organisations are there to protect you, the consumer from being ‘ripped off’. If a company operating a syndicate chooses not to associate with these types of groups, it just goes to show they have something to hide…

We hope you have found this article useful, it’s come about because we’re fed up with seeing people taken for a ride and having the good name of legitimate, legal and well organised businesses marred by these sub-standard websites owned by people trying to make a quick buck!

Have you had a bad online experience?

Have you noticed any of these ‘dodgy sites’?

Have you got any good advice for people wanting to join online lottery syndicates?

Feel free to leave your comments!

The leading online lottery syndicate company, Virtual World Direct, have today launched a brand new offer aimed at Lottery Syndicate players worldwide.

The offer incorporates:

1. A GUARANTEED Win within 12 weeks of joining a euro millions syndicate, this is backed by a 100% Money Back Guarantee

2. A Free Week in a UK Lotto Syndicate, this allows a syndicate player to take part in one Saturday and one Wednesday UK Lotto draw as a member of one of the syndicates.

3. Golden Tickets, When playing in the lottery syndicates, players are handed a  ‘Golden Ticket’ which will be used for prizes, cash equivalents and even a brand new BMW Mini. The Golden Ticket draw takes place every 4 weeks along with a superdraw for the BMW Mini taking place every year.

This is a fantastic offer from VWD and we expect to see the membership grow rapidly from over 270,000 users in a very short space of time.

You can check out the EuroMillions Offer by clicking this link Your Euromillions Guaranteed Win

When playing in a E-Lottery Syndicate can you win the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle?

I have been asked this question now on several occasions now, here is the answer:

Each Euro millions syndicate has 36 lines in each draw. The tickets each syndicate uses are purchased in the UK, so, each syndicate also has 36 Raffle tickets.
Because the raffle numbers are allocated to the ticket ‘randomly’ the number on each ticket is not published by vwd… it would simply take too long to enter each one into the system.

The winning raffle ticket number is published on the national website every week

However, should your syndicate win the raffle, you will definately be notified by VWD and you will of course win your share of the raffle prize

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