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You see it whenever you fill up your gas tank, the constant nagging reminder of how much the current state lottery is sitting at. Millions upon millions of dollars sitting, waiting for you to buy a ticket, waiting for you to fulfill your destiny by selecting the \"winning\" lottery tickets. This made me wonder about the secret life of a lottery ticket. How does our lottery in the states compare with how lotteries are played elsewhere in the world? I dove in to find out.

People all over the world seem to have a special system by which they will have the winning number. Numbers they consider unique to them that will assure them a better chance at being picked. Americans have also grabbed on to the numbers used over and over again on a popular television show, LOST. The numbers a4, 8, 15,16,23, and 42 have been selected an unusually high number of times in this country. Imagine is that number were actually selected and the jackpot had to be divided by 18 million winners! My research did not show a similar pattern in the UK for selecting the same numbers, but then the system there differs from the lottery systems in America.

The largest difference that I can find between the American lottery system and that of the National Lottery found in the UK is that within the UK you can select your numbers online and play online daily. This is a far cry from what we have in the US today where you have to patronize your local convenience, grocery, or liquor store to invest your earnings in what will certainly be the last lottery ticket you will ever need to purchase. In the UK, not only can you track the numbers you have played in the past online, you can select those numbers over and over again, to play daily, and see if you can win big. You have a capability of simply imputing your numbers in a box on the National Lottery website to see how they compare with the UK lotto results. It appears as if the Europeans are decades ahead in their lottery ticket purchase, selection and tracking process.

Why hasn't America leaped forward in our lottery selection process? I really don't know. It seems that the lottery in America is still frowned upon by many as the evils of gambling, which means it's restricted to the back alleys and dark corners of back alley poker games in many states in the Union. However, what some of these anti-lotto advocates might overlook is how the lottery can revitalize the economy in certain states, and that lifting the state veil of rules on how and when to play can actually benefit the economy in some ways.

The Euroas ability to out perform the American dollar at this difficult time in history is not solely due to its relaxed attitudes on gambling. Yet, imagine the good that could come from an American National Lottery, easily accessible online, where even pennies on the dollar could be directed at the public good. We could increase support for healthcare, education and the arts. We might even be able to pay down the national debt!

Allowing a National online lottery website like that available in the UK could provide our citizens with a wide range of benefits for curretly underfunded programs. These might well be programs that those opposed to the lottery might consider worth the compromise. Anti-gambling groups might find that an online lottery system has capabilities of limiting the amount of funds a single person can invest, while the current system America has allows people to purchase as much as they want in an anonymous way by shopping at a number of local establishments.

America could have a National Lottery website that is governed by its citizens. Millions could become available by giving just pennies per ticket to causes we all support. This could be done without altering what individual states do with their lotteries.

Megabuck dreams held in our pocket or stuffed into our purse to be lost in the shuffle of everyday life is a truly American experience. This excitement of loosing the winning ticket is no longer possible in Europe where a National Lottery played online at the click of a mouse button offering the player as much security as cyberspace can offer.
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