About California SuperLotto

The minutes of the California State Lottery is to spend the extra money for education within the state, rather than imposing an additional tax. According to the Lottery Act, the California State Lottery must give at least 34% of their income to support public education. The first tickets for the California State Lottery went on sale in October 1985. The game of "SuperLotto Plus? The California State Lottery has given SuperLotto Plus lottery since 2000 and previously was named California Super Lotto. The draw of the Super Lotto Plus are held twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7:57 PM. Players must choose 5 numbers from 1 to 47 and an additional number, the Mega number, between the number of 1 to 27. The drawing uses two machines and two sets of balls, one with rubber balls numbered 1 through 47 and the second used for the Mega Number, rubber balls, numbered from 1 to 27. Most California lottery games use random number generators, while the SuperLotto Plus drawing using traditional mechanisms.

To ensure randomness in the draws of the SuperLotto Plus California, machines and ball sets are randomly selected before the draw. Once a month the balls are inspected and calibrated to an accuracy of 001 grams and are means to ensure consistency. Drawings are held regularly test and its results are analyzed and the actual draw results, to ensure that no number appears more frequently than is supposed. Independent external monitors carrying out these tests and also examine the videos of the drawings to ensure that the drawings of the California SuperLotto Plus are reliable.

Mega hit only the winning number will become order to win the top prize of the California SuperLotto, a player must match all 6 numbers correctly. Besides the jackpot, there are eight additional prizes depending on how many numbers you correctly successful participant. There's even a prize for players who have been successful only the Mega number. The chances of winning a prize total of SuperLotto Plus are 1 in 23. The smallest prize in the SuperLotto Plus is 7 million. If the jackpot is not successful or claimed by any player who has hit all 6 numbers, money is accumulated for the next draw, and added to the jackpot and so on, increasing the value until there is a jackpot winner. The winners of the California SuperLotto Plus have 180 days from the date of the draw to claim prizes. The unclaimed prize money is given to the education fund in addition to the 34% of revenue for the fund. The jackpot winning SuperLotto Plus they have to make a choice on how they want to receive the award. You can choose a lump sum, which is equivalent to 50% of the advertised jackpot.

The second option is to receive the prize money in 26 annual installments. The annual payment is a payment made gradually over 26 years. Each year the payment is gradually increased until the amount of payment number 25 is twice the first. Until 2005, players had to choose the charging system when buying a lottery ticket. Since then, the top prize winners of the California SuperLotto Plus have 60 days to decide whether they prefer a lump sum to the total amount, or 26 annual installments. Data from the California Lottery in February 2002, three winning tickets broke the record for the California SuperLotto Plus, whose top prize was $ 193 million. In November 2005 came the top prize on one ticket - was bought by seven people. They shared $ 315 million. The largest group of people who claimed the top prize in the SuperLotto Plus California was 56 people in August 1995. Your ticket won third prize of which was 56 million. Were shared among them 18.68 million dollars.

Each of the 56 received their own personal check. Statistically, on average, there is a jackpot winner every 2.4 sweepstakes.