SuperEnalotto change (after 18 years): the price doubles, salt the jackpot – BBC

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Milan , January 15, 2016 – 11:21

     
     
 

not changed for 18 years but in recent times the competition of “Scratch and Win “and the success of lifetime annuities has drastically diminished the charm of the Superenalotto. Enough to bring down the collection of 22% over the last three years, from 1.37 billion in 2013 to 1.07 in 2015 (source Agipronews). That’s why from January 31 Superenalotto changes increasing jackpot, jackpot and even the price of the ticket.

What changes

The first “6″ in history was centered 17 January 1998 in Poncarale, in the province of Brescia, for a payout greater than 11.8 billion lire. After more than two thousand drawings and EUR 4.3 billion won, the game brainchild of Rodolfo Molo (son of Geo, inventor of the ticket pools) tries restyling. Here’s how: If until now won at least three numbers on the ticket, with the new Superenalotto the two numbers and the odds of winning, according to says the dealership Sisal, will increase twentyfold. The payoff for two numbers will be spot on at least five euro but the ticket will also give access to other prizes through a “magic square” similar to that found today on the tickets of “Scratch.” But, more interestingly, the average value of the jackpot will rise (and a lot) from the current 39 million to EUR 110 million. What does it mean? When no one wins the fateful 6, the jackpot grows now a million a week. Since February instead increase by two million.

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But to grow in addition to the jackpot, it will in a sense, the price of the ticket: while today with a euro you can make two bets, January 31, with the same price if they can make one. “But it will be a board much richer” she emphasizes Marco Caccavale, Director Business Unit Lottery Group Sisal – and with a highest jackpot: 100 made the collection of Superenalotto, the percentage reserved for the prize money will increase from 34.6% to 60%. ” To the detriment of the State: far indeed the Superenalotto was one of the games considered to be more “generous” to the national treasuries, with 53.6% of the harvest that ended straight straight into the coffers of the state (about half a billion Euros in 2015 ). The share of receipts of the exchequer will go instead to 28.27% with the new formula will remain unchanged while those reserved to the bet (8%) and the concessionaire Sisal (3.73%).

15 January 2016 (modified 15 January 2016 | 11:26)

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