Thursday, July 28, 2016

EuroMillions is more expensive – Journal News

the legal framework for a new social game on lottery numbers, which will be operated in conjunction with the lottery, was on Thursday approved by the Council of Ministers.

the creation of the new game “Toto Draw” intends “combat illegal supply that exists there in such numbers draws, and match the national rules of the game” Euromillions “the other Lotteries of the European Union, according to a statement from the Council of Ministers.

According to the legal framework, “participation in the ‘EuroMillions’ implies participation in ‘Totosorteio’ and participation in ‘Totosorteio’ implies participation in the ‘EuroMillions’.”

the new game is a drawing of numbers that, for the price of 0.30 euros per bet, plus the amount of the bet on Euromillions – which will be updated to 2.20 euros (the total bet will for 2.50 euros) – Portuguese punters are enabled, weekly, at a guaranteed prize of one million euros.

the Council of Ministers states that the creation of this game aims to channel the “illegal offer” to “legal supply in strict safety, integrity and transparency, which are guaranteed by the Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa “, who was granted the organization and operation of the game.

” it is ensured that the net results of these bets continue for the purposes of public interest, “he added.

higher premium

Speaking to Lusa, Maria João Matos, the Department of the Santa Casa Games Misericordia de Lisboa (SCML), said that the new social game, “Totosorteio”, which will be renamed with a new brand (a new name) in September, will raise the price of the minimum bet EuroMillions two euros, to 2.5 euros.

“the EuroMillions will grow with new bets, from September 27, with a cost of bet a higher-bit, because we will have more and bigger prizes,” he said Maria João Matos.

According to the official, the minimum guaranteed value of the first prize goes from 15 to 17 million euros and sweepstakes Super Jackpots minimum guaranteed (SJMG) are 100 million to 130 million.

it will also be carried out “promotional event” twice a year, which will reward 25 punters EuroMillions, with one million euros each, with the first draw scheduled for the end of October.

Maria João Matos said that the first draw of the new game, associated with Euromillions, will take place on 30 September. “

the social game” will, guaranteed, and every week the award of a prize of one million euros, only in Portugal, “creating over 52 new millionaires a year, he said.

This set of changes to the EuroMillions was agreed on July 8, Portugal and the remaining eight countries participating in the EuroMillions Group (Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom).

the Gaming Department of Santa Casa told Lusa that “the mechanics of game will not change, “although punters start to have another star in the matrix (12 instead of 11), but remains unchanged the probability of gain 1 premium (1:13).

the Jogos Santa Casa will launch an advertising campaign to timely inform the Portuguese bettors on all changes to the EuroMillions and the mechanics of the new game.

According to the statement of the Council of Ministers, the creation of Totosorteio intends to fight ” illegal offer that checks exist in this kind of lottery numbers, channeling it to the legal provision, under strict security conditions, integrity and transparency, which are guaranteed by the Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa “.

“by offering the Portuguese this new social game, basically we want to decrease the betting possibilities in everything that is illegal outside the state-regulated framework,” he explained Maria João Matos.

He also recalled the mission of the Department of Santa Games Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa, which “is to create the conditions necessary to channel the demand for money for the provision of social games in games the state.”

social games State are the Classic Lottery, the Popular Lottery, the Totobola, the Lotto, Joker, Scratch card, the EuroMillions and PLACARD.

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