You see it whenever you fill up your gas tank, the constant nagging reminder of how much the current state lottery is sitting at. Millions upon millions of dollars sitting, waiting for you to buy a ticket, waiting for you to fulfill your destiny by selecting the \"winning\" lottery tickets. This made me wonder about the secret life of a lottery ticket. How does our lottery in the states compare with how lotteries are played elsewhere in the world? I dove in to find out.
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 Europeans have a much more modern and streamlined lottery system than we do. The biggest difference between the UKas National lottery and the lottery in America is that you can choose and play the lottery daily online in the UK. This enables them to easily track and replay the same numbers if they choose. It even enables them to check their numbers against the winning lotto results at the click of a mouse.
Why hasn't America leaped forward in our lottery selection process? I really don't know. It seems that the lottery in America is still frowned upon by many as the evils of gambling, which means it's restricted to the back alleys and dark corners of back alley poker games in many states in the Union. However, what some of these anti-lotto advocates might overlook is how the lottery can revitalize the economy in certain states, and that lifting the state veil of rules on how and when to play can actually benefit the economy in some ways.
The Euroas ability to out perform the American dollar at this difficult time in history is not solely due to its relaxed attitudes on gambling. Yet, imagine the good that could come from an American National Lottery, easily accessible online, where even pennies on the dollar could be directed at the public good. We could increase support for healthcare, education and the arts. We might even be able to pay down the national debt!
The possibilities are endless when we consider ways in which we might implement a nation wide lottery website similar to the UK. Those opposed to the gambling aspect of the lottery and its harmful effects on those who cannot stop, might be interested in the benefits of an online system that can track and limit the amount of money any one individual can play. Such constraints are not possible with our current store purchase system.
America could have a National Lottery website that is governed by its citizens. Millions could become available by giving just pennies per ticket to causes we all support. This could be done without altering what individual states do with their lotteries.
What does this mean to you and I? Well it means that gone are the days in Europe where you have a wadded up lottery ticket in a pair of jeans or shoved in the bottom of a purse...the ticket that could very well be the winning one, accidentally thrown away or covered in spilled coffee. It means that claiming your winnings could be as simple as one mouse click away. This is the future of the lottery, and so ends, the secret life of lottery tickets with the revolution of online gaming.
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