Halloween Festival – Celebrate with Treats and Secret Lotteries

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Weeks of costume designing and party planning are coming to fruition, which means that Halloween is upon us! theLotter is ready to join in the holiday atmosphere with a few Halloween Festival tricks up our sleeves to treat our players. Read on for a little bit of Halloween History, an amazing deal on the world's biggest jackpot and a secret lottery offer that is out of this world!

Although modern Halloween celebrations were still forming their identity during the first half of the 20th century, its history dates back to at least the late 1500s, as good old William Shakespeare mentions the archetypal 'beggar at Hallowmas' in The Two Gentleman of Verona, one of his earliest plays. Beggars at Hallowmas referred to the poor who would beg door to door on November 1st, a.k.a. All Hallows or All Saints Day.

The modern equivalent would be Trick or Treaters who come out in costumed force on October 31st to beg for candy treats from neighbours, suggesting a trick (egging, toilet papering, etc.) will be played on any house who denies such a request.

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Steve Jobs Quotes Show He Would Have Loved theLotter for iPhone 2013

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Steve Jobs was a visionary, the man who put 1,000 songs in your pocket and wouldn't accept the word 'no' for an answer, even and especially from himself. Thanks to Steve Jobs, barriers between consumer and technology were blown away and many of our lives are sleeker and more convenient due to his unique brand of product perfectionism. theLotter brings you a decade of similar dedication, sharing our love of lotteries with millions of players worldwide. With the widest selection of lottery draws to play online, we knew our iPhone app upgrade could be something special – we hope you enjoy the results!

Quote: "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

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Online Lottery and Holiday Raffles All in the Cauldron for Halloween

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October 31st approaches with haste. Do you know how you're carving your pumpkin lantern(s)? Have you picked a delightfully frightening costume and bought enough fake blood and cobwebs? What about tricks and treats and the inevitably gruesome parties you need to choose between? Let theLotter tick one thing off your Halloween To-Do List with our creepy crawly guide to all that is hallowed in the lotto world.

Double, Double Toil and Trouble
Fire Burn, and Cauldron Bubble

Shakespeare's Three Witches
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I

 Sold Out Eerily and Scary Good Prizes

There's still one whole week left until ghosts and ghouls come out to play, yet the Halloween Raffle offered by the Oregon lottery is already sold out! With a $1 million first prize and ten $20,000 payouts promised, it's no wonder that 250,000 tickets were sucked up quicker than free blood at a vampire convention.

In the meantime, the Illinois Lottery continues in good spirits, with more than 250,000 entries remaining to its Halloween Millionaire Raffle. Players should not fear the unexpected, although with $100 prizes popping out at some just for buying a ticket, and four $1,000,000 grand prizes, get ready for some heart skipping moments as All Hallows Eve creeps ever closer.

Powerball's Millionaire Making Minions

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What is the Megaplier option and why do I need to know?

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American lottery draws are known for their enormous jackpot offerings, especially the $656 million world lottery jackpot record holder Mega Millions. Did you know you will soon be able to win a multi-million dollar prize in this world-beating lotto draw without matching all the numbers required for the top prize? Now we have your attention! The secret is using a multiplier called the Megaplier in the NEW and improved Mega Millions 2013!

Ask any US lottery jackpot winner how they felt when they found out they had won and they will tell you that winning the top prize is the best feeling in the world! Would you complain if you won a $250,000 payout for matching all five main Mega Millions winning numbers but missed the Mega Ball? Probably not but it would certainly be nice to sweeten the windfall in some way.

What is the Megaplier option?

Put simply, the Mega Millions Megaplier multiplies secondary prizes to increase the amount of money you win. Players select the Megaplier at the time of purchase, knowing that if (or rather when) they win big they will actually win really big.

In the past, and until the Tuesday draw on October 22nd, the Megaplier has been drawn before the main draw, from a mixed selection of 21 balls marked 2, 3 or 4, weighted in favour of a quadruple multiplier coming out; there are 12 x 4s, 7 x 3s and 2 x 2s giving a greater than 50:50 chance of a 4x M [...]

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Raffles Raffles Everywhere: Lotto 649 and Lotto UK Join Raffle Scene

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The excitement of a regular lottery often boils down to how high the jackpot is going to go and how many people will win the top prize. While still part of the lottery family, raffle lotteries offer a slightly more predictable outcome with a fixed number of tickets, winners and prizes. That said, raffles are seeing somewhat of a renaissance of late, with 19^th and early 20^th Century 'old faithfuls' such as Loteria de Navidad and Loteria del Nino finding company in the form of a new brand of twice-weekly 21^st Century raffle draws.

[Editor's Note: To give a proper analysis of modern raffle lotteries, this blog is slightly longer than our usual articles. For those who want to skip ahead to a particular lottery, the order is as follows:
1. Loteria de Navidad & Loteria del Nino, 2. Loteria Nacional Sorteos Extraordinarios, 3. EuroMillions UK Millionaire Raffle, 4. Lotto 649 Guaranteed Prize Draw, 5. UK Lotto Raffle]

1. Loteria de Navidad & Loteria del Nino

Christmas in Spain is a jolly time and Loteria de Navidad a.k.a. the Spanish Christmas Lottery plays a huge role in adding extra spice to the already festive atmosphere. Widely accepted as the largest lottery in the world, Loteria de Navidad offers a €2 billion plus prize fund for the annual raffle held on December 22^nd every year.

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Lottery Subscriptions Online: Pay Less and Never Miss a Draw!

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If there was one word to describe life in the 21st Century it would be 'busy'. Work, travel, family and friends all make considerable demands on our time, making it very easy to forget something simple like picking up milk, paying a bill or buying lottery tickets. Online lottery subscriptions won't put milk in your fridge, but they may help you pay a bill or two and are certain to make sure you never miss your favourite lotto draw!

When Paul White of Ham Lake Minnesota won a $149 million share of the $448.4 million US Powerball lottery jackpot on 7th August 2013, his press conference was hilarious (in a good way). Among other anecdotes, Mr. White explained how he almost forgot to buy his lotto tickets for the big draw and would not be sitting at a lottery winner press conference had he not wanted to take his son for a spin in Grandma's brand new Mustang. What would he have done if it wasn't for his mother-in-law?

There's a simple solution: set up a lottery subscription online with theLotter.

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Artists’ Lottery Syndicate: Making Art, Making Friends, Making Money

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Everyone loves a lotto syndicate story such as '12 Corby bus drivers win EuroMillions top prize' or 'New Jersey's Ocean's 16 claim a third share of US Powerball jackpot'. theLotter recently discovered a great lottery syndicate story from back in 2010 when some 40 UK-based artists committed a full year to winning the lotto. Although luck didn’t carry the group to a top prize, they did make a profit and will go down in lotto history as one of the coolest syndicates the lottery world has known.

Lottery syndicates are about hope, community and sharing the excitement of lotto wins, big or small. Whether it is a group made up of colleagues, friends or family, the fate of one is that of all. It is with this understanding that forty artists formed a lotto collective called Artists' Lottery Syndicate.

Founded by Glaswegian artist Ellie Harrison as a response to cuts in arts funding due to the global economic downturn, the "speculative new scheme for acquiring funds for artists" was quick to attract participants, many of whom jumped at the chance to be part of such a potentially lucrative social experiment.

A brief look at the people and art behind Artists' Lottery Syndicate reveals the diversity of the group; Canadian Maayke Schurer's real-time magic realism contrasts dramatically with microperformance social commentators FrenchMottershead, actually a London pairing, who in turn differ greatly from Chinese public-space perfo [...]

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