Four Good Reasons To Play Lottery Games

We know that lotteries are popular, but are there really any good reasons for us to play the lottery on a regular basis? Fortunately, the answer is yes. In fact there are four good reasons for us to play lottery games...

Lotteries Help Good Causes

Almost all regulated lottery games give a proportion of the funds they raise to good causes. The UK National Lottery has given more than £19 billion to Good Causes since it was launched in 1994. According to Camelot, this makes it “the biggest programme of civic and social regeneration since the 19th Century.” Playing the lottery is therefore a good way of giving something back to society whilst having fun at the same time! It certainly beats a straightforward increase in income tax, which is probably what would happen if lotteries didn’t exist!

Lotteries Can Change Your Life

You only need to win one major prize to have your life changed. Although the odds of winning the jackpot outright are small (being just 1 in 13,983,816 for the UK Lotto game) the fact is that someone has to win, so why not be one of the potential lucky people? Even non-jackpot prizes can be very substantial, and recent research from the University of Warwick and Watson Wyatt suggests that even medium wins (ranging from £1,000 to £120,000) can increase our feelings of happiness for several years by around 10%. Buying a ticket could therefore be a fast-track to self-improvement.

Lotteries Can Make You Super-Rich

Lotteries have the potential to make you super-rich. Whilst becoming a millionaire is great, becoming a multi-millionaire is even more attractive, and the “rollover” aspect of lotteries mean that there is sometimes the chance to win £10 million, £20 million or even more. Euromillions, for example, has seen jackpot prize levels reach £100 million and more. Whilst such large rollover jackpots can be and often are shared by several winners, scooping a £20 million share of a £60 million jackpot makes plain old “millionaire” status look positively paltry. We’ll let the bookworms, stats geeks and mathematicians decide whether of not such sums are technically good value (it depends on how many tickets ultimately share the jackpot), but they’re certainly valuable enough for us!

Lotteries Are Fun!

Finally, let’s not forget the plain and simple fact that lotteries are fun! The excitement of waiting several days for a live draw to take place – a draw which could potentially make you a multi-millionaire in less than one minute – is not something you can get anywhere else. Buying a ticket or two on Monday for the Saturday gives you almost a week to look forward to the big event, ensuring that – at least as far as excitement is concerned – you get plenty of value for money.

27 October 2006