Superenalotto
It has been said that lottery games originated in Roman Italy, and as the Romans are attributed to giving us the game we love so much today maybe it’s right that Italy has one of the biggest lottery draws in the world. The SuperEnalotto holds the record for the world’s largest lottery jackpot to be won by a single lottery ticket at €147 million, and the jackpot can regularly be seen at over €100 million.
In it’s regular format, the SuperEnalotto Italy has been running since December 1997 and since then has boasted some of the biggest lottery jackpots ever seen in the world.
While the SuperEnalotto might be one of the world’s biggest lottery draws, it is nowhere near the richest. These bumper jackpots are created by the constant rollovers, caused by the lottery being one of the hardest in the world to win.
When you choose the numbers on the lottery ticket for Superenalotto, you must choose six numbers. However, while many lottery draws from around the world play with six from 49 numbered balls, the SuperEnalotto has 90 balls, multiply the possible combinations again and again. It’s this that makes that SuperEnalotto jackpot so elusive and odds of winning the SuperEnalotto Italy jackpot are said to work out at around one in 622 million.
SuperEnalotto draws take place thrice-weekly, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday evenings. The lottery tickets for the SuperEnalotto Italy cost €1 and for that you receive two lines of lottery numbers on your lottery ticket. As with most lottery draws from around the world, you can choose your own numbers for the lottery ticket, or use the quick-pick system for random selections.
During the SuperEnalotto draw, six numbers from a possible 90 are drawn, plus a ‘Jolly’ number created another tier or prizes. To win the SuperEnalotto jackpot you must match all the numbers on the lottery ticket to the first six balls drawn in the SuperEnalotto Lottery draw.
As rollovers are common, so are lottery syndicates and whole offices, families and organisations have been known to club together to buy lottery tickets when the SuperEnalotto jackpot gets very high. The highest jackpot ever seen on the SuperEnalotto was €71 million won back in 2005. This record was smashed in 2008 by a €100 million win but it wasn’t over there. In 2009 a lottery ticket worth €147 million was sold in the Bagnone are of Italy and the lottery ticket holder became the world’s biggest ever lottery winner, a record still current towards the latter half of 2010.
The SuperEnalotto jackpots also make the draw a firm favourite with world lottery syndicates, who prefer to chase big jackpots around the world than be restricted to their local lottery draw at home.
Italy is one of the European countries that may have been expected to join the Euromillions Lottery when it launched in 2004, but as the SuperEnalotto generates so much revenue for Italy, it’s little wonder they opted out. While other lottery draws around the world put over half of all money from lottery ticket sales into the prize pool, just 34% of the SuperEnalotto revenue goes to the prizes, while 54% goes to the Italian state.