Probability theory and game theory have opened many possibilities for man. It would seem, how can both parties benefit when sums with six zeros are at stake? The lottery uses the basic axiom of game theory, which says that each of the players must act in the interests of the whole group.
Yes, one of the players will receive an astronomical amount of money, but thousands of other players will not receive anything, risking only a couple of hundred rubles. This is how any lottery works, no fraud and fraud, only pure mathematics and combinatorics. Consider what the Russian Lotto lottery offers, how to play it and is it possible to win in it?
For the first time, Russian Lotto raffled off a prize more than 20 years ago. The first edition falls on 1994. The game was broadcast live on the RTR channel (Russia), and since 2006, live broadcasts have become the responsibility of NTV. At first, Russian Lotto tickets could only be purchased in Moscow, but since 1996 this opportunity has been opened up for all residents of Russia.
Since 2011, Stoloto has been organizing Russian Lotto. The company raised the broadcast of games to a wide format and began to broadcast, along with Russian Lotto, the results of other lotteries (for example, the Golden Horseshoe).
To date, Russian Lotto is the largest jackpot lottery from Stoloto in terms of size, more than 200,000,000 rubles and 30 elite houses are played in it.
Over the past 5 years, Russian Lotto winners have won more than 7,400,000,000 rubles.
Where to buy tickets?
There are 3 ways for Russian Lotto participants:
- buying tickets in the Stoloto store (on the official portal or in the application for mobile devices);
- purchase of coupons at retail points of sale (Rostelecom, Pyaterochka, Russian Post, BaltBet, BaltLoto, Euroset)
- buying tickets via SMS (you need to send a message to the number 9999 with the text "RL").
The price of one ticket is 100 rubles when purchased in any way.
What does the ticket look like?
There are two types of Russian Lotto tickets - physical (paper ticket) and electronic. Electronic coupons contain the inscription "Russian Lotto Ticket", the ticket number and the image of the current prizes. On the front side are the cell numbers and the ticket number.
Front cover of the e-ticket 
Reverse side of the e-ticket To buy a ticket on the Internet, you need to follow the link "Buy a ticket" on the official website of Stoloto. Here you need to pick up a coupon with random numbers - to do this, click "Update tickets":
Tickets on the Internet are sold only for the current circulation. To issue a coupon, you will need a mobile phone number - you need to specify it at the time of purchase.
- To receive a win from a ticket purchased on the Internet, you need to know:
- mobile number specified when buying a ticket (an SMS with a special code will be sent to it)
- personal key
- winning code (comes in an SMS message).
When buying a paper ticket, a mobile number is not required, the winnings are credited upon presentation of the ticket.
paper ticket
What are the rules of the game?
The player receives a ticket that has two parts. Each contains 15 numbers (total - 30 numbers):
During the drawing, the presenter (by the way, he has not changed since 1994) takes out the kegs from the bag. There are 90 barrels in total. If a ball falls out with a number that is on the player's ticket, then he crosses out this number from the ticket.
As soon as 86, 87 or 88 kegs are opened (depending on the draw), the lottery is considered completed and the selection of winners begins. There are several tours:
- Round 1 - the winners are those who, before the rest of the participants, closed 5 numbers in any line of the ticket (there are 6 in total):
- Round 2 - those who closed any 15 numbers in the ticket in 15 moves win (these players receive a "jackpot"):
- Round 3 - those who closed all 30 numbers on the ticket win:
- Round 4 - "Kubyshka" (not always held). In the “Kubyshka” those players who have the numbers that did not fall out at the top or bottom of the ticket win.
How to increase the chances of winning?
Stoloto organizers see two ways:
- Buy more tickets. It's simple - the more the better, because with each new ticket the chance of winning increases exponentially. Moreover, the organizers of Stoloto recommend purchasing tickets in which there are no identical pairs. If you buy three coupons, then try to buy such tickets so that all 90 numbers are present in them.
- Buy tickets for special editions. From time to time special draws are held in Russian Lotto. The probability of winning in them is higher than in ordinary ones. To distinguish such a ticket is quite simple - it has a special sign at the bottom, in the left corner.
When will my draw take place?
Russian Lotto ticket sales end at 18:30 (Moscow time) every Saturday Saturday. If the player managed to purchase a ticket before this moment, he will know his result next Sunday. Those players who buy coupons on Saturday night or later must wait a week before the next draw.
How are the draws going?
Russian Lotto draws are held on Sundays at 14:00 Moscow time. Live broadcast on the NTV channel in the program "We win!".
Before the start of the drawing, the members of the draw committee count how many tickets have been sold and announce the size of the prize fund. Then the host checks for all the barrels. After that the game starts. The host takes turns taking out the barrels from the bag. As soon as there are 2, 3 or 4 barrels left in the bag (it depends on the features of the circulation), the draw ends.
At the end of the lottery, the drawing commission checks whether all the rules have been met and draws up a drawing protocol.
What can be won?
In "Russian Lotto" there are such prizes:
- jackpot (its amount is variable - the longer no one wins the jackpot, the higher its amount);
- apartment (or 2,500,000 rubles);
- country house (or 700,000 rubles);
- travel (or 200,000 rubles);
- other cash prizes (minimum - 100 rubles).
Where can you find the results?
If a player missed the live broadcast on the NTV channel, you can view the results of Russian Lotto in this way:
- on the official site;
- in the archive of Russian Lotto draws;
- at the point of sale "Stoloto".
- by phone +7 499 27-027-27
- in the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" for Wednesday.
How to take the winnings?
- if the amount is 2,000 rubles or less, you can contact the nearest Stoloto store - the funds will be issued in cash;
- if the amount is from 2,000 to 100,000 rubles, you can withdraw money at the Stoloto kiosk or order a transfer of funds to the Stoloto wallet;
- an amount of more than 100,000 rubles can be received at the company's central office (documents will be required);
- a million or more can be taken only at the main office by making a transfer to a bank card.
Prizes are paid out one day after the end of the draw. You can apply for a prize within 6 months after the draw took place.
Is it realistic to win?
To assess how realistic it is to win in Russian Lotto, you need to calculate the probability of winning in the current draw. For example, take the lottery that ended on March 16, 2018. Here are her results:
- 88 tickets won a million rubles;
- In total, there were 3,380,466 tickets in the circulation;
From this it comes that the chance of winning is 0.0026%. Not so little, and if you buy more tickets, you can get up to 0.1%. This happens because by purchasing an additional ticket, the chance does not increase by 2 times. The ticket increases the chance of winning not from all tickets, but from the total amount, excluding the main one (which can both win and lose).
The probability of receiving a prize is slightly higher. To do this, you need to add up all the data in the "Number of winning tickets" column and divide this number by 3,380,466 (the number of coupons in circulation). It follows that 664,510 tickets won, or 20% of all tickets.
Note that the draw that took place on March 18, 2018 was “regular”. In it, 86 barrels were withdrawn from the bag (and not 87 or 88), and there was also no draw "Kubyshka". And this means that in other draws the chance of winning is greater: sometimes it reaches 30%. You need to follow the news of Stoloto and the symbols on the tickets in order to participate in draws with an increased chance of winning.
Conclusion
Russian Lotto is an old and proven lottery that has been run by Stoloto for over 20 years. The guarantor of the honesty of "Russian Lotto" are live broadcasts on the federal channel. This is not true for all Stoloto lotteries, so if you want to get an even game guaranteed, then pay attention to Russian Lotto.
The chance of winning in Russian Lotto reaches 25% (in those draws where 3 or 2 barrels remain). This is much more than in similar Stoloto lotteries. You can start playing Russian Lotto in a few minutes - you just need to buy a ticket at a kiosk or via the Internet.
Do you often buy Russian Lotto lottery tickets and hope that one day you will be lucky and you will become the lucky one who managed to win millions of rubles? Alas, but this is an absolutely useless occupation, moreover, it is also unprofitable.
Russian Lotto is owned by Stoloto, the official and sole distributor of lottery tickets in Russia. A little earlier, we already talked about how, during the draws, the results are rigged, the participants are deceived, and the winnings are not given out. The situation with the "Russian Lotto" is almost identical, they are also deceiving. I will give you evidence of how ticket buyers are fooled.
What frauds do lottery participants face?
Russian Lotto is a well-known lottery in Russia. The ticket contains a certain set of numbers. Then, during the draw, the host randomly pulls out barrels from the bag, at the bottom of which numbers are indicated. The participant can only compare the numbers in his ticket with those announced by the lottery host. Several rounds are being held, the ticket numbers must match those that were announced on the air. The amount of the prize depends on which round he won. It seems that nothing complicated and no deception can happen. However, the participants of the "Russian Lotto" now and then face fraud:
See how many negative reviews people leave about this lottery, while there is very, very little information on the Internet from the participants of the Russian Lotto about large prizes exceeding at least a few thousand rubles.
Well, all those happy people that you see during the broadcast in the program itself and who are concentrated on crossing out the numbers that have fallen on the tickets and rejoice at the draw are invited participants who are paid for the day of filming. Extras, which should create the appearance of honesty of the lottery and a positive image of her.
New Year's Crash of Hope
This year's New Year's draw No. 1212 was the biggest evidence of the deception of the lottery organizers. The draw was supposed to take place live. The excitement was incredible, because they were going to play 1 billion rubles and 50 country houses. And by the time of the broadcast, the prize fund had doubled and amounted to 2 billion rubles. Moreover, it was promised that every 2nd ticket would be a winner! Lotteries were bought in packs. But what did it all turn out to be?
According to the Stoloto company, 42,500,003 tickets were sold, the total winnings amounted to 2,286,454,048 rubles. The numbers are more than impressive. But let's now look at other facts:
To sum up, all those who bought tickets for the New Year's draw were severely deceived. Together with the live broadcast, they were slipped a mounted recording, not every second ticket was a winner, but the “huge” prizes were slightly more than the cost of the ticket itself. With the exception of 158 people, all the rest received a penny - no more than 131 rubles.
Whether to buy lottery tickets further or not is up to you. If for you this is just a way to have fun and tickle your nerves a little, while you don’t spend much money on buying them, then, in principle, why not? Well, if you seriously hope to win a large amount and solve your financial problems, and therefore often buy Russian Lotto tickets, giving a decent part of your salary, then it’s better to spend this money on something more necessary for you! You simply drain them for nothing and enrich the owner of the Stoloto company. I hope the above evidence of lottery fraud convinced you of the futility of trying to cheat their system and hit the big jackpot.
On July 22, 2018, another big win took place in the Rapido lottery from the Stoloto company. A resident of the Omsk region managed to correctly guess all nine numbers and received a prize - 3,962,626 rubles.
There are other examples of big wins in draws from Stoloto. In early June 2017, a family from Omsk won 2.3 million rubles. With this money, the newlyweds bought an apartment and went on a trip.
The Stoloto lottery supermarket, which already has more than 10 types of draws, allows you to win money every day. Today we will talk about one of the company's most famous lotteries - Russian Lotto.
The first draw of "Russian Lotto" was held more than 20 years ago - in 1994. The drawings were broadcast on the RTR (Russia) TV channel, and since 2006, the NTV company has been organizing live broadcasts. At first, only Muscovites could buy Russian Lotto tickets, since 1996 this opportunity has been available to all residents of Russia.
Since 2011, Stoloto has been organizing Russian Lotto. The company switched broadcasts of draws to a wide format and began to show the results of other lotteries (for example, the Golden Horseshoe) along with Russian Lotto.
Today Russian Lotto is Stoloto's largest lottery in terms of jackpot. Today, more than 200 million rubles are played here. Participants can count on one of 30 houses.
Over the past five years, Russian Lotto winners have received over 7.4 billion rubles in winnings.
Where to buy tickets?
Use one of three ways to become a member of Russian Lotto:
- buy tickets on the official website
- purchase coupons at retail points of sale (Rostelecom, Pyaterochka, Russian Post, BaltBet, BaltLoto, Euroset)
- buy tickets via SMS (send a message to 9999 with the text “RL”).
The ticket price is 100 rubles. It is the same at all points of sale.
What does the ticket look like?
There are two types of Russian Lotto tickets - paper and electronic.
Electronic coupons
These tickets are sold online. They look like this:
Front side 
Back side To issue a ticket on the Internet, follow the link "Buy a ticket" on the official website of Stoloto. Here you can pick up a coupon with any numbers - to do this, click "Update tickets":
E-ticket Online tickets are only sold for the next draw. To issue a coupon, you will need a mobile phone number - you need to specify it at the time of purchase.
If you bought a coupon on the Web and managed to win money, then the following will come in handy to receive a win:
- mobile number to which the ticket was issued (an SMS with a unique code will be sent to it)
- unique key
- winning code (will come in SMS).
If you don't have a mobile phone or don't want to buy a ticket online, you can buy it at points of sale.
Paper tickets
If you buy a Russian Lotto ticket at points of sale, you will receive the following form:
You don't need a mobile phone - if you win, you can only get money with a ticket. You can purchase such a coupon at the offices of the Russian Post, as well as at the official sales points of Stoloto.
What are the rules of the game?
Let's move on to the most interesting thing - the rules of the Russian Lotto draw.
The participant receives a ticket, which has two playing fields. In each field - 15 numbers (total - 30 numbers):
In the process of drawing, the presenter (by the way, it has not changed since 1994 - the date of the appearance of Russian Lotto) alternately takes out the kegs from the bag. There are 90 kegs in the bag in total. coupon.
As soon as 86, 87 or 88 kegs are opened (depending on the draw), the lottery ends and the winners are determined. There are several tours:
In the example above, kegs with numbers 17, 23, 45, 77 remained in the presenter's bag. Since all these numbers are at the top of the ticket, the owner of this coupon won in "Kubyshka".
How to increase the chances of winning?
The organizers of Stoloto have prepared two tips that will help you get more chances to win.
#1. Buy more tickets
The more coupons you buy, the higher the chance of winning.
At the same time, the organizers of Stoloto advise buying tickets that do not have repeating numbers. If you purchase three coupons, then try to purchase such tickets so that they have all 90 numbers.
#2. Buy tickets for special editions
Sometimes special draws are held in Russian Lotto. The probability of winning in them is greater than in ordinary ones:
- “3 kegs left” - in this draw, the presenter will get not 86 kegs, as usual, but 87, thus, the probability of winning increases
- “2 kegs left” - in this draw, the presenter will get not 86, but 88 kegs, which means that the chance of winning increases even more
- "Edge" - an additional, fourth round will be held, which we have already written about in the section "What are the rules of the game?".
It is easy to identify a special edition ticket - it has a special sign in the lower left corner:
When will my draw take place?
Russian Lotto ticket sales close at 18:30 (Moscow time) on Saturday.
If you managed to buy tickets before this date, you will know your result next Sunday. Participants who purchase coupons on or after Saturday night will have to wait a week before the next draw.
How are the draws going?
Russian Lotto draws are held on Sundays at 14:00 Moscow time. Live broadcast - NTV, the program "We win!".
Before the start of the draw, the draw commission calculates how many tickets have been sold and announces the size of the prize fund. Then she also checks if the host has all the kegs in the bag.
Then the draw begins. The leader takes out the barrels from the bag one by one. As soon as there are 2, 3 or 4 kegs left in the bag (depending on the draw - read about “3 kegs left”, “2 kegs left” or “jug” if you forgot), the draw ends.
After the completion of the lotteries, the drawing commission checks whether all the rules have been observed and signs the protocol.
What can be won?
Russian Lotto has the following prizes:
- jackpot (its amount changes - the longer no one could get the jackpot, the larger its amount)
- apartment (or 2.5 million rubles)
- country house (or 700 thousand rubles)
- travel (or 200 thousand rubles)
- other cash prizes (minimum - 100 rubles).
Where can you find the results?
If you missed the live broadcast on the NTV channel, you can find out the results of Russian Lotto in the following ways:
- by number of circulation and ticket
- go to the archive of Russian Lotto draws on the official website of Stoloto
- visit the point of sale "Stoloto" (or partner), where the ticket was bought
- call +7 499 27-027-27 and ask the operator for the result of the next draw (if you have a Tele2, MTS, Megafon or Beeline SIM card, then dial +7 777 27-027-27 and the call will be free)
- buy the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" for Wednesday.
You can also get acquainted with, it displays the results of all runs.
How to take the winnings?
Depending on how much you managed to win in Russian Lotto, you need to withdraw money in different ways:
- if you received 2 thousand rubles or less, contact the nearest Stoloto kiosk - the money will be issued in cash
- if you received from 2 to 100 thousand rubles, you can withdraw money at the Stoloto kiosk or order a transfer of funds to the Stoloto wallet
- if you received more than 100 thousand rubles, then send the documents to the central office of the lottery company
- if you have received more than 1 million rubles, come personally to the Stoloto office and receive the winnings to your bank account.
Please note that prizes begin to be paid out 24 hours after the end of the draw. You can apply for winnings within six months after the draw has taken place.
Is it realistic to win?
To understand whether it is realistic to win in Russian Lotto, let's try to calculate the probability of winning in a real draw. For example, let's take the lottery that took place on March 18, 2018. Here are her results:
88 tickets won 1 million rubles each. A total of 3,380,466 coupons participated in the draw. This means that the probability of getting a prize of 1 million rubles in this draw was 0.0026%.
Now let's calculate what is the probability of getting at least some kind of prize. To do this, let's add up all the values in the "Number of winning tickets" column and divide this number by 3,380,466 (that's how many coupons took part in the draw). It turns out that the winners were 664,510 tickets, or 19.6% of the total.
Note that the draw that took place on March 18, 2018 was a “regular” draw. In it, 86 kegs were pulled out of the bag (and not 87 or 88), and there was also no “Kubyshka” draw. And this means that in other draws the probability of winning is higher: it can reach up to 30%. Follow Stoloto news and badges on tickets to participate in draws with a high chance of winning.
Conclusion
Russian Lotto is one of the most famous lotteries held by Stoloto. This draw has been in existence for over 20 years.
The guarantee of honesty of "Russian Lotto" is live broadcasts on federal television. This is not available for all Stoloto lotteries. So, if you want to have a guarantee of the fairness of the draw, then we advise you to pay attention to Russian Lotto.
The probability of winning in Russian Lotto reaches 30% (in draws where three or two barrels remain). This is more than in other Stoloto lotteries.
You can become a member of Russian Lotto in a couple of minutes - just buy a ticket via the Internet. If this is not possible, the ticket will be sold at the office of the lottery company or distribution partner.
If you don't feel like going to the TV at 8 am on Sunday, it doesn't matter. After a pleasant breakfast and morning coffee, you can check your ticket and at the same time, going to the Internet. The results of the Russian Lotto lottery draw appear online immediately after the television release and are stored in the archive for more than one year. That's why online checking the Rusloto lottery ticket love to enjoy experienced players who collect game statistics. They use this data in further drawings to increase the probability of winning. Only online is it possible to check several tickets at once, or a ticket that has won many runs. Thus, having bought a Rusloto ticket a few weeks ago, do not think about it until the high point of the check. At a convenient time, playfully go to the site and check the ticket simply and quickly. This option is loved by those who are used to playing high stakes.
The two main ways to check a Russian Lotto ticket are as follows:
- Online check by Rusloto ticket number
- Checking the circulation of Russian lotto online
Checking by Russian Lotto ticket number
This check is done instantly. The archive saves all lottery results in gigabytes of memory, and when you enter the ticket number in a certain field, the result appears on the screen instantly. For implementation checking a Russian Lotto ticket by ticket number you need to go to the site and find a special field for entering the number of Russian Lotto tickets, manually enter the number of the ticket or tickets that played and get the result. To collect statistics and analyze data, it is better to use another method to. It will be discussed below.
Checking the lottery draw Russian Lotto online
Unlike the previous one, this verification method gives the general results of the draw, without focusing on the ticket number. The results of the played circulation look in the form of special tables. Looking at the table, you can immediately determine whether your ticket won or lost. The results of the draw are stored on the site and are available to all players.
The most popular lottery in the post-Soviet space, Russian Lotto, has won the hearts of millions of players. The stories of real winnings never cease to delight and amaze. And now the Rusloto ticket check has acquired a new simplified scheme.
Instead of Sunday 8 am and TV - any day and individual time at the computer. Check lottery draws Russian Lotto through Internet resources - the fastest, most affordable and comfortable option. Not surprisingly, this is the method chosen by a large number of players.
After purchasing Russian Lotto lottery coupons, you automatically become a participant in the drawing. Valuable prizes that will be drawn depend on the draw. As a rule, apartments, cars, cash prizes, country cottages, baths, trips to the sea, and so on are raffled off. Quite often, lotteries are timed to coincide with a holiday. In order to receive one of the prizes, it is required that the purchased ticket has a winning combination. To find out the result, you should check the coupon, and how to check the ticket ("Russian Lotto"), you will learn below.
Internet
There are two ways to get the results of the Russian Lotto draw using the World Wide Web. This is a check of the dropped combinations by number and by the draw plate.
How to check a ticket ("Russian Lotto") by number
On the main page of the official site there is a list of all past lotteries. From the list presented, you must select the Russian Lotto lottery.
In the browser window that opens, at the top of the page, there is a button "Check ticket", click on it.
Ticket validation will start only after correct data entry, otherwise the required key will be inactive.
How else to check the ticket ("Russian Lotto")? The circulation table is located on the public website stoloto.ru for checking numerical combinations. On this portal, information about the draws held is stored for six months, so if you did not manage to check the ticket right away, do not despair. Verification occurs instantly, you only need to enter the number of circulation and coupon.
Another way to find out if you won a lottery coupon or not is to watch the recording of the transfer on the Russian Lotto public website.
How to check the ticket ("Russian Lotto") if there is no access to the Web, and the release of the TV show could not be watched? For this case, other methods are provided.
Other verification methods
There are few alternative places where tickets can be checked ("Russian Lotto"), but they are no less reliable and convenient.
For example, through a QIWI payment machine. You can find out the result of the draw by requesting an SMS notification to the designated phone number. In addition, in case of winning, a citizen has the opportunity to withdraw the amount due to him to an electronic wallet registered to him.
Another way is to check the winning combinations against the circulation table in the press. Russian newspapers and magazines publishing the results of the draws:
- "Sportloto";
- "Evening Moscow";
- newspaper "Trud";
- "Moskovskaya Pravda";
- "Sudarushka";
- "Job in Moscow".
How to check the ticket ("Russian Lotto") we discussed in some detail. With the advent of modern technology, various e-commerce services, the procedure for checking lottery coupons has become easier, now nothing prevents you from enjoying the game to the maximum. Remember that you can always get information about the results, even if you didn’t manage to watch your favorite TV show.
