Dispatched this week to NetLotto users and others interested in lotteries around the world, this is ...

LOTTERY TIPS for April 5, 2005 copyright (c) www.netlotto.org

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EUROMILLIONS JACKPOTS TO €62 Million Euro (around £43,000,000 or US$80,000,000): The estimated jackpot for next Friday's Euromillions draw is over €62 Million Euro. EuroMillions is a joint venture between the U.K., France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal & Switzerland. The first draw took place on February 13, 2004 in Paris. The game style is like Powerball, but with two Power Balls, called Lucky Stars. Five main numbers are drawn, from a pool of 50, then the two lucky stars, from a pool of 9. All 7 must be matched to win first prize. You can play Euromillions on-line by clicking on the link http://www.eurolottery.org.uk/.

... NetLotto has rules and past results for Euromillions built-in.

AVOID BAD LUCK - DON'T TELL ANYONE YOU'VE WON: During the Christmas 2002 holiday, Andrew "Jack" Whittaker won the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot, the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. Whittaker chose to take the cash option of $170 million before taxes. Since he won the lottery, Whittaker’s home, business and vehicle have been burglarized repeatedly. In 2003, a manager of a strip club and his girlfriend were charged with drugging Whittaker and taking a briefcase filled with $500,000 in cash and cashier’s checks. The money was later recovered. In addition, Whittaker has been sued by an employee of the Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center for allegedly assaulting her in March 2003, reports CBSNews.com. Also last year, Whittaker faced charges of threatening to kill a bar manager and driving while drunk.

... As I say on page 19 of the NetLotto User Guide, rule 1 when you win big is don't tell anyone. Then follow the other 7 rules, sit back and watch your money grow!

WEBSITE UPDATE: In an effort to make things easier to find, we've added five more navigation buttons to the home page on the NetLotto Web Site. These are:

Free Newsletter (takes you to the Newsletter subscription form)

Latest Results (allows you to download the latest results file)

$31Million Entry (the illustrated story of the winning NetLotto entry that wasn't submitted)

Screen Shots (not done yet but will show visitors what NetLotto looks like)

Links (links to other sites that are relevant and/or interesting)

CURRENCY CONVERTER

We're also introducing a currency converter to help anyone who wants to play a foreign lottery on-line. For a special preview for Newsletter subscribers only, click on http://www.netlotto.org/converter.htm.

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NetLotto Can Help You Win the Lottery!

NetLotto is a computer program that generates a

'number net' designed to give you the best chance

possible of winning your favorite lottery game. Click

on http://www.netlotto.org for more information now.

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN U.S. AND AUSTRALIAN GAMES: Like America, Australia is a federation of states, and so has both National and State based lotteries. Although Australia is approximately the same size as the mainland United States, its population is much smaller (around 20 million) and so prizes are generally lower, although jackpots of $30 million and more are not unknown. However, an important difference is that $30 million means exactly that - $30 million paid now, in one lump sum - and tax-free! In the U.S., it means $30 million paid over some period of time, such as 20 or 26 years. Or, you can (sometimes) take a lump sum payment of about half of the advertised prize. In some states, depending on the ticket wording, you can be taxed on the lump sum even if you elect to take the annual income! Boy, that Uncle Sam is one tough dude! And another difference is that Australian lotteries typically return 60% of ticket sales in prize money, compared to around 50% for most U.S. lotteries. The first lottery world-wide to start operations in the 20th century was in 1917 in the state of Queensland, Australia.

... No wonder they call Australia the lucky country.

A BIT OF HISTORY: Despite having been used by the first President, George Washington, lotteries were banned in America from the late 1800s until 1964, when a modern lottery was instituted in New Hampshire. It was called a "sweepstakes" and affiliated with horse racing to avoid the federal anti-lottery laws. New York followed in 1967.

... To check out the New Hampshire lottery's Web Site, click on the link http://www.nhlottery.org.

LOTTERY PROCEEDS HELP OUTSTANDING STUDENTS: Georgia's HOPE Scholarship Program Is one of the most successful education initiatives in Georgia history. the HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally) Scholarship Program provides Georgia students with tuition, mandatory fees, and a book allowance for attendance at any of Georgia's public colleges, universities or technical colleges. Georgia high school graduates with a "B" average in core-curriculum classes are eligible to receive a HOPE grant. A $3,000 scholarship is awarded to eligible students attending Georgia private colleges/universities. The HOPE PROMISE Teacher Scholarship Program provides tuition assistance to undergraduate students who aspire to be teachers in Georgia's public schools. The HOPE Teacher Scholarship Program offers tuition assistance to teachers who seek graduate degrees in critical areas of need. Since inception, more than $3 billion has been appropriated and distributed to more than 850,000 HOPE Scholarship recipients.

... Opponents of the introduction of lotteries were fond of saying that "it is going to demoralize the youth of our State."

THIS WEEK'S TIP: As with any form of investment, you should have a clear investment strategy for playing the lottery. Here's an example from Louise Hocking's book Winning Lotto:

Firstly, you must set yourself an annual budget. In the following example, we’ll assume you’ve decided on an average investment of $30 a week, so your annual budget is $30 x 52 = $1,560. Yes, it does seem like a lot of money, but it’s better to get your head round it now, rather than just spend it every week without realizing what you’re doing.

If you want to spend less or more, just scale the calculations up or down.

Let’s assume your lottery has 10 minor jackpots a year and 4 major jackpots a year. Our strategy is going to be to invest smaller amounts on the “normal” weekly entries so that we can put larger amounts when there’s a jackpot. Larger amounts mean more entries, which increase dramatically our chances of winning not only the jackpot but also one or more of the minor prizes that also typically increase when there’s a jackpot.

We want to do twice the normal number of entries when there’s a minor jackpot and five times the normal number of entries when there’s a major jackpot. To work this out, we use a little bit of algebra.

Suppose our normal investment is x dollars. We will invest five times this amount on the 4 major jackpots, twice this amount on the 10 minor jackpots and exactly this amount on the 38 remaining “normal” weeks (52 weeks in the year less the 14 “jackpot” weeks.) As our total expenditure for the year is $1,560, this gives us:

38x + 10(2x) + 4(5x) = $1,560

38x + 20x + 20x = $1,560

78x = $1,560

x = $20

2x = $40

5x = $100

So our average expenditure of $30 per week is made up of $20 for each of the normal 38 games, $40 for each of the 10 minor jackpot games and $100 for each of the 5 major jackpot games.

... If you use the NetLotto program to select your numbers, you can easily tell it how many entries you want to generate for any one game, making it particularly easy to implement this investment strategy.

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IT'S A FACT:

91% of computers are infected with spyware!

Spyware is downloaded to your computer from the Internet, totally

without your knowledge, and then tracks your computer usage in

various ways. It will keep a record of your Internet surfing and it may

track your buying habits. Some versions will even record your every

keystroke, thereby revealing the contents of every email you send

and every letter you write, as well as what software you are using and\

what Internet addresses you are visiting.They are not detected by

anti-virus software, and a firewall will not keep them out. You need

Spyware removal software.

Here's a great product you can use to scan your computer for free.

http://www.expelspyware.com/

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