California SuperLotto, Mega Millions, and Fantasy 5 Lotto by Double Million-Dollar Lottery Winner Terry Fisher

California SuperLotto, Mega Millions, and Fantasy 5 Lotto are California's three main lotteries; the official website is at http://www.calottery.com. Perhaps the easiest game to win is California's Fantasy 5 lottery. This picks five balls from 39, and the odds of a single ticket winning are 1-in-575,757.

Fantasy 5 Lotto costs $1 for each gamey, and you can play for up to 12 draws in advance by marking the advance play box. 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. For Fantasy 5, the jackpot starts at $50,000 and increases if not won, up to a maximum of $500,000. It also pays out for four numbers, three numbers, and gives you a free ticket for matching two numbers.

California also offers the multistate lottery game, Mega-Millions. Mega-Millions is the largest lottery game in America, played in 12 different states. It has a starting prize of $12 million and has had a record payout of $390 Million. The odds of winning Mega-Millions are enormous at 1-in-175,711,536, but there are nine different ways to win.

For playing 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. There is a choice of being paid in 26 annual instalments or receiving a reduced cash value prize. This single cash value prize is normally around 55 to 60% of the published jackpot amount; the theory is that if it is invested for 26 years it will grow to the jackpot amount. You have 180 days to claim your first prize.





California's SuperLotto Plus starts with a jackpot of $7 million, and its record payout is $193 million. It is drawn twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday. For SuperLotto Plus, 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. Players have the option of being paid in 26 annual payments or receiving a reduced cash lump sum immediately. You have 180 days to claim your first prize. 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, after a majority of Californian voters approved Proposition 37. Sales in 1984 began at 1.8 billion. Although they grew during the 1980s there was a period of decline from 1989 to 1992, after which sales increased, up to more than $3.5 billion for the financial year 2005/6.

About the Author

Million-Dollar Lottery Winner 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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