Costing merely €1 for two tries, Italian Superenalotto is one of the biggest lotto games in the world. The game-play is simple, with people trying to get all of their six numbers to match with the draw. A person needs only a three number match to win a prize.

Results and the Number Draw

Until June 30, 2009, the winning six numbers were chosen from the Lottomatica regional lotto for the cities of Bari, Florence, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome and Venice. The first numbers of the cities were picked up in the sequence as they had been listed and Venice’s number was considered as the ‘Jolly’ number.

However, there was a slight probability of picking duplicate numbers as two cities might have had similar numbers. Duplicity could have made the draw useless. Therefore, since June 30, the numbers started getting picked independent of the Lottomatica draw.

The draw as of October 2009 concludes in two stages, with the first six numbers and the Jolly number being drawn in the first pick and the Superstar number in the next.

Superenalotto has a SuperStar

Well, quite literally! The ‘SuperStar’ number makes the excitement reach new heights with prizes for people with not even a single number match. For the lucky, the prize money increases 100 folds if all the numbers match with the draw along with the superstar number.

Even though the ‘Superstar’ number costs some extra cash, it is, mathematically, a good way of increasing the probability of winning cash prizes.

Superenalotto: A Tough Nut to Crack

What makes winning a jackpot even more exciting is the high odd that the winner leaves behind him to get knighted! The prize pool consists of 35% of the sales and the remaining goes to the Italian state. The odds of winning are:

Italian Superenalotto: The Big Money

The money in Italian Superenalotto is really big and the stupendous amount of the jackpot proves it. With the increasing penetration of the Internet, the doors have opened for people from across the world to buy tickets online and try their luck. With the number of people increasing, the size of the jackpot is expanding too. There have already been a few jackpots that can test our counting skills.

• May 4, 2005, a single ticket bought in Milan by a team of ten customers won a huge amount of $94,804,954. This stayed as the largest amount ever won until 2008, but history repeated itself and this time with a bigger bang.
• Another astronomical figure hogged the limelight in October 2008 when a single ticket in Catania won a prize of $129,753,830. It stayed the highest for almost ten months when another jackpot of $211,807,859 was won on August 22, 2009 in Toscana.

With the doors open to gamblers around the world through the Internet, a new record amount does not seem too far fetched. A ticket with a few numbers can make it happen for you at the Italian Superenalotto. Think about it!

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