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Home | Recreation & Sports | Gambling & Casinos The Fantasy 5 jackpot starts at $50,000 and increases up to a maximum of $500,000. It also pays out on three and four numbers, and gives you a free ticket for matching two numbers. It costs $1 for each play. California Fantasy 5 prizes are always paid in cash, in full. Lottery Systems suitable for California's Fantasy 5 lottery can be found at http://www.power-ball-pro.com In addition, California offers lottery players the multistate lottery game, Mega-Millions. The odds of winning Mega-Millions are astronomical at 1-in-175,711,536, but there are nine different ways to win. Mega-Millions is the largest lottery game in America, played every Tuesday and Friday, in 12 different states. Prizes start at $12 million and it has a record payout of $390 Million. To win Mega-Millions, you need to mark one set of numbers, choosing five numbers from 1 to 56 and a second set of numbers where you choose one number between 1 and 46. You have a choice of being paid by 26 annual instalments or receiving a reduced cash value prize. You have 180 days to claim your first prize. California's own SuperLotto Plus is drawn twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday. You need to correctly choose from five numbers between 1 and 47, plus one number from a separate set of numbers between 1 and 27. SuperLotto Plus starts with a jackpot of $7 million, and its record payout is $193 million. Players have the option of being paid in 26 annual payments or receiving a reduced cash lump sum immediately. There are nine different ways to win, but the odds of winning first prize are very high at 41,416,353-in-1. Income from all California lotteries is distributed as follows. Around 54% goes back to players in the form of prizes; around 34% supplements the public education budget; around 7% goes to lottery retailers, and the remainder covers the expenses of running the California lottery. The one billion contributed to the education budget accounts for around 1.5% of California's funding for education and most of this is spent on teacher's salaries or classroom instructional materials. At the time of writing this (November 2007), California lottery may be about to become a political hot potato. There are discussions in progress regarding privatising the California lottery and broadening the benefits to California's citizens beyond the education field. Predictably, those in education are not impressed by the fact that their funding may be compromised by political promises in the health area. Rather than an outright sale, California would probably lease its lottery. The California lottery was born in 1984 with sales that year at 1.8 billion. Sales have steadily grown, up to more than $3.5 billion for the financial year 2005/6. However, even at $3.5 billion, California lottery underperforms most American lotteries in terms of sales per capita; probably a reason the arguments for privatisation have surfaced. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Lottery Expert Terry Fisher's book "Powerball Pro" offers lotto systems suitable for all Pick-5 lotto games. Alternatively, custom lotto systems can be created for the Pick-5 Lottery.
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