There are several
Lotteries running in Australia but the
biggest and main Australian Lottery
is Oz Lotto. It’s Australia’s
original national lottery game, created
on February 26th 1994 it was originally
a once weekly lottery played on Tuesday
evenings. Since 2000 the lottery has
become, like many world lotteries
bi-weekly with draws every Tuesday and
Saturday evening.
The Oz Lotto was the first Australian lottery game to be based on chance and is administered by Tattersalls, it’s now one of around fifteen lottery draws running in the country including one based on the popular Powerball game based in the US, yet the Oz lotto is still Australia’s main draw, bringing in players from right across the country.
How to Play The Australian Lottery
To
Play the the Australian Lottery you need
to choose seven numbers from a possible
45, games cost $1 plus the agents
commission. Originally just six numbers
were drawn making it similar to other
lottery draws from around the world but
the number was increased to seven in
2005. There are seven numbers and two
bonus numbers drawn from the barrel each
week and to win the jackpot you need to
match all seven main numbers to the
balls drawn.
The chances of winning the Australian
Lottery jackpot are around one in 45
million but with prizes paid across the
divisions including matching several
numbers and the bonus ball the overall
chance of winning a prize is as little
as one in 55.
Oz Lotto operates under several names
since the launch of the seventh winning
number, in Tattersalls jurisdictions the
lottery is now known as Super 7’s Oz
Lotto and in Queensland the name Oz 7
Lotto is accepted, however it is still
know as Oz Lotto is most Australian
states although the branding and
advertising for the game has changed in
line with the rules.
