The lottery signs are everywhere. Megabucks waiting for us if we can just pick the right number. I began to wonder if the lottery was just an American phenomena or were their similar systems around the world? If so, how did they differ from ours? So began my search for the secret life of lottery tickets
What I have found most people around the world, albeit state, national or even the UK lottery, is that most players have a system to select the numbers that are going to win them the latest jackpot. When purchasing their lottery tickets most people will use birthdays, anniversaries, dates that (in their mind) are those that their lucky star will select for them, and only them, to have the proverbial \"Golden Ticket\". Here in the US, for example, there has been a surge of selections of the same grouping of numbers, found in the popular television show LOST 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. If these are the numbers that are selected, I would hate to see the mass panic that would ensue having to split the winnings 18 million ways. For all of my research, I wasn't able to find the same type of pattern in number selection in the UK, however, there are many differences as to how their national lottery is played as compared to our state lotteries.
The largest difference that I can find between the American lottery system and that of the National Lottery found in the UK is that within the UK you can select your numbers online and play online daily. This is a far cry from what we have in the US today where you have to patronize your local convenience, grocery, or liquor store to invest your earnings in what will certainly be the last lottery ticket you will ever need to purchase. In the UK, not only can you track the numbers you have played in the past online, you can select those numbers over and over again, to play daily, and see if you can win big. You have a capability of simply imputing your numbers in a box on the National Lottery website to see how they compare with the UK lotto results. It appears as if the Europeans are decades ahead in their lottery ticket purchase, selection and tracking process.
Many Americas view the lottery as an evil to be avoided. Thus the attitude of making it difficult to participate in might be the reason for the antiquated system for buying tickets. Barriers to participation are also barriers to the benefit the lottery gives to revitalization of a lagging economy.
We cannot blame Americaas sagging economy on its attitude to the lottery. Yet we canat help but wonder how implementing a national lottery online might help contribute to the well-being of its people if just a small portion of the proceeds was directed to under-funded programs or to reducing the national debt.
Allowing a National online lottery website like that available in the UK could provide our citizens with a wide range of benefits for curretly underfunded programs. These might well be programs that those opposed to the lottery might consider worth the compromise. Anti-gambling groups might find that an online lottery system has capabilities of limiting the amount of funds a single person can invest, while the current system America has allows people to purchase as much as they want in an anonymous way by shopping at a number of local establishments.
By keeping the state lottery rules and regulations the same and simply adding the convenience of an online national lottery we could revitalize our nation, and use just a few pennies from each ticket purchase to fund programs selected by the voters it could turn our entire economy around!
Megabuck dreams held in our pocket or stuffed into our purse to be lost in the shuffle of everyday life is a truly American experience. This excitement of loosing the winning ticket is no longer possible in Europe where a National Lottery played online at the click of a mouse button offering the player as much security as cyberspace can offer.
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