Big Payouts in Australian Lotteries This Year

Friday 10 February, 2012 18:47

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While Australian lottery players are used to massive jackpots, lottery experts believe that 2012 will be a particularly lucrative year for ticketholders.

This weekend will see the first Lotto Superdraw of the year being held and players stand the chance to win a $20 million guaranteed jackpot prize.

Other Superdraws are being planned for Saturday March 31st, Saturday May 12th and Saturday June 30th, the latter offering a guaranteed $30 million Division One prize to lucky players.

The Chief Executive Officer of Lotterywest, Jan Stewart noted the growing trend of Australians to purchase lottery tickets ahead of these big draws.

"Some new players are coming into the game, and overall that means we can offer a higher superdraw program, which is what we call these big draws," she said.

Nobody can tell exactly how big the Australian lottery payouts could become, however the more people who buy lottery tickets, obviously the bigger the prizes become.

However, few are expecting Australian lotteries to reach the proportions seen last year in Spain, when the biggest world lottery up for grabs reached a staggering €2 billion ($2.5 billion)! That said, Aussies haven't done too badly themselves with the biggest sum offered in the country's history was the $106 million Oz Lotto jackpot in 2009, which was shared by two winners.

Buy Tickets for Saturday Lotto Superdraw

There is still time to purchase tickets for tomorrow's (Saturday, February 11th) Saturday Lotto Superdraw with a guaranteed $20 million up for grabs.

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Eight balls are drawn from 45, with the first six being winning numbers and the last two being supplementary numbers.

The odds of winning the Saturday Lotto by matching all six numbers are one in 8,145,060.

Lottery experts were asked this week to offer tips that would help increase players' chances of winning a grand prize. Statistician Professor John Croucher noted that if one doubles the number of players, the amount of prize money in general also doubles, and therefore twice as many people win prizes.

Other than buying more lottery tickets, Croucher says that there is one more way of really increasing one's chances of winning a prize.

"If you pick numbers like 17, 18, 19, 20, which are running numbers, many people don't think they're random, so there'd be fewer people who would select something like that," he said.

Saturday Lotto Superdraw lottery tickets are on sale online and at lottery retailers across the board in Australia.

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