Is the Lotto Skelm?
Imagine this…you get the lucky feeling and head off to Shoprite to get your Lotto ticket for the Saturday R21 million draw.
At 9.30pm you switch over to E-tv, check you numbers and against all the odds you’ve won the Lotto!
Your heart beats so fast you can hardly breathe.
You make all sorts of plans for yourfuture – maybe get a nice comfortable house in a more upmarket suburb. Upgrade your car and perhaps help out some family members and good friends financially. Give a few hundred thousand to charity and invest the rest, giving you comfortable existence for the rest of your life.
Fortunately it’s a Saturday night so you don’t get the opportunity to tell off your boss before getting a chance to double check your winnnings. Maybe 1 or 2 other people were also lucky.
Come 10.30pm you switch over to E-tv again to see the payouts. 18 other people won too!!!
You have to split your one Lotto win with 18 other people – giving your the grand price of R1.2 million. Not too shabby, but not enough for grand plans either.
It could be worse – you could be one of 33 as there was in 2003!
Why would this happen when the jackpot is R21 million and not when it’s it’s usual R2 million or so? Is there a snake in the grass?
Gidani, the Lotto operators say no, there is nothing suspicious going on. It is all the luck of the draw.
I guess if you were one of the 18 it would not look above board at all and if you didn’t win you probably don’t care.
What about those 133 Brits who had to share the UK Lottery in 1995??!! It could always be worse
