Lotteries in Australia

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Lotteries in Australia include various lotto related products licensed by Australian lottery companies, comprising mainly of state government-owned corporations - New South Wales Lotteries, Golden Casket, South Australian Lotteries and Lotterywest - plus one private-sector company, Tattersalls, which operates in the states not covered by the state-owned operators.

Although the organisations are predominantly state-based, Australia has a number of national lottery games. These games are typically administered by one of the above companies, and syndicated through the Australian Lotto Bloc - an umbrella organisation consisting of the above lottery operators - with prize pools combined between states. For example, Tattersalls administrates the Saturday Lotto (known as Tattslotto in its jurisdictions), Oz Lotto and Powerball games on behalf of the bloc. Similarly, South Australian Lotteries operate the Australian Soccer Pools, although the Soccer Pools bloc is technically related but separate. The bloc's member operators also market lottery games that run exclusively in its jurisdiction.

Australian lotteries are subject to many regulations, which generally vary from state to state. In most states, lotteries products can only be bought by persons over the age of 18 years. However, in some states (for example, Western Australia and South Australia), the minimum age is only 16 years. It should be noted that unlike most lottery competitions around the world that the Australian lottery game(s) prizes are tax paid values. So if you win a million dollar prize, you get paid a million dollars and you get it all at once, no matter how big the prize.
Tattslotto (Saturday Lotto)

Tattslotto is a product of Tattersalls. This section refers to the national Saturday night draw, syndicated to all Australian states and territories through the Australian Lotto Bloc. The game is marketed as "Tattslotto" in Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory; as "Gold Lotto" in Queensland; and as "Lotto" or "Saturday Lotto" in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.

Tattslotto's first draw was on 1972-06-24, and it became a Lotto Bloc game in 1981-03-07 . Saturday Lotto's draw numbers have only used odd numbers since Draw 233 on 1983-10-15 - this allowed some jurisdictions to use the even numbers for midweek games.

A player purchases a number of "games" by either marking numbers on a computer-scannable ticket or by requesting a random selection (known variously as a "Quick Pick", "Auto-Pick", "Easi-Pick" or "Slikpik"). Games where a player selects six numbers only is known as a Standard game, and these are often played in multiples of two. More than six numbers can be selected per game - known as a Systems entry (eg. 'System 7' is where seven numbers are selected) - but the cost of that game rises as the odds of winning increase. Some states also allow you to select only 5 or 4 numbers, with those numbers being combined with every combination of the remaining numbers (giving the equivalent of 40 and 780 standard games respectively). This is sometimes also referred to as a Systems entry - eg. 'System 5' - or as a 'With The Field' entry.

In a Tattslotto draw, six numbers and two supplementary numbers are drawn from a barrel of 45 numbers. (The second supplementary number was added starting from Draw 413 on 1985-07-06; prior to this, only one supplementary number was drawn.) The following prize divisions can be won:

*First Division (Jackpot Average $700,000) - All six winning numbers in a game.
*Second Division (Average: $12,000) - Five winning numbers and one supplementary in a game.
*Third Division (Average: $1,000) - Five winning numbers in a game.
*Fourth Division (Average: $50 ) - Four winning numbers in a game.
*Fifth Division (Average: $24 ) - Three winning and one supplementary in a game.




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