Mega Sena
Many lottery draws run in the South America region but the biggest and richest of these must be the Mega Sena Brazil Lottery, the largest lottery played in Brazil. The popular Mega Sena Brazilian Lottery is well regulated and run solely by the Caixa Economica Federal bank of Brazil. Mega Sena Lottery draws take place twice weekly, on Wednesday and Saturday evenings and the draw is an unusual lottery draw with balls drawn from two lottery machines simultaneously to make up each individual lottery number.
How to Play the Mega Sena Lottery
The Mega Sena Brazil Lottery is played very similar to wagering, bets are made up of permutations, often increasing chances of a win. Six numbers are drawn from the lottery machine (that’s actually thirty balls), making up Six numbers between 1 and 60 and players can bet within a range of 6 to 15 numbers. The more numbers you have, the more you pay for your lottery tickets as numbers include permutations of groups within the numbers.
However with Mega Sena lottery tickets costing R$2 for each permutation to local lottery players, which means up to R$10,010 for the maximum 5005 permutations, lottery players choosing 15 numbers is unusual. Although that could be the way to go for world lottery syndicates, increased permutations mean more chances to win and that’s what makes the Mega Sena Brazil Lottery the perfect lottery draw for syndicate groups.
The two lottery machines ensure transparency in the Mega Sena Lottery draw, the first lottery machine contains numbers from 0 to 5, the second from 0 to 9, these numbers make up every possible sequence from 00 to 59, should 00 be called it is counted as 60 for all lottery bets. That means the lottery numbers run from 1 to 60 and these are the numbers you need to use to wager on the Mega Sena Brazil Lottery.
Mega Sena Jackpots
To win the Mega Sena Lottery jackpot, players need to match all six numbers on their Mega Sena Lottery ticket to the six numbers between 1 and 60 drawn in the twice-weekly draw. There are also smaller runners-up prizes for players matching four or five lottery numbers.
The organisers of the Mega Sena Lottery dedicate 46% of revenue from the Mega Sena Lottery to lottery prizes and that 46% is split between prize money and Super draws. Of the prize money, players can expect to receive:
35% - Mega Sena Jackpot prize
19% - Players who matched 5 numbers
19% - Players who matched 4 numbers
The remainder from the total above is taken up by cash amounts taken from the pot for regular Mega Sena Lottery Super Draws.
As with many of the World Lottery draws, the Mega Sena Brazil Lottery holds money back for good causes, with the Mega Sena Lottery this amounts to 54%. This amount is split between costs of running the lottery and then redistributed to several social programmes around Brazil.
Written by Kath C
Page Last Updated: 24/11/2011 15:01:53
