It has now become much easier to play Australian Lottery Games. You can now play almost all the lotteries, be it Saturday Lotto, Powerball Lotto, Oz Lotto, Super 66, Australian Soccer Pools, Syndicates and many others online with your PC, Mobile or Tablet. There was a time when you used to rush to the store to buy a ticket and wait for days to come back to the store again to check your results. But with time, things have changed due to technological advancement and the needs of society.
If you look back into history then the first lottery in Australia took place in the 1880s in Sydney. It was a private sweepstakes that was quickly prohibited, despite being moved to other areas such as Queensland and Victoria.
In 1916, the Australian government started their own lottery, named the ‘Golden Casket Art Union’, with the intention of raising money for charities and projects. Its first draw is credited with raising funds for veterans of World War One.
As said above, multiple lottery operators in Australia are licensed at state or territory levels and are also state government-owned or privately owned companies. Prizes and jackpots can reach tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. Patrons no longer need tickets at news agencies, convenience stores, or petrol stations.
Oz Lotteries is the exclusive distributor of online lottery products on behalf of leading Australian lottery exporters, TMS Global Services Pty Ltd and TMS New South Wales. Operating for over 20 years, TMS has serviced more than 500,000 customers in over 40 countries. TMS distributes lottery products worldwide via mail-order as a direct lottery service partner for some Asian and South Pacific nations, and its industry-leading website, www.OzLotteries.com
Oz Lotteries operates under strict government supervision and is an accredited sales agent of the following Australia lottery operators: NSW Lotteries and Tattersalls.
Purchasing tickets to play lottos and raffles through Oz Lotteries – an authorised online vendor – is legal in Australia. However, it should be noted that Oz Lotteries cannot offer instant-win scratch cards.
Several lottery games are syndicated across Australia, and anyone in the country—and even overseas residents—can play them by purchasing tickets online at www.OzLotteries.com.
Central Lottery Games To Play
The Lotto
Owned by Tatts Group Limited, the Lotto is divided into two Lotto categories – the Monday and Wednesday Lotto and the Saturday Lotto (Tattslotto) – nationally-based lottery games syndicated to all Australian states and territories. For more information, visit: https://tatts.com/
Oz Lotto
This national lottery game, also operated by Tatts Group Limited, Oz Lotto, is played on Tuesday nights throughout all states and territories in Australia. Oz Lotto currently holds the record for the most significant Australian lotto win – four winners shared a Division 1 pool of $111,972,151.04 in November 2012. To get to know more, click: http://www.ozlotteries.com/
Powerball
Based on the American game of the same name, Powerball is administered by Tatts Group Limited and syndicated across the country. It is drawn weekly on Thursday nights.
Super 66 and Lotto Strike: Super 66 is a national lottery played in all states except New South Wales – NSW, which plays a similar game called Lotto Strike instead.
These lotteries are regarded as ‘add-on’ games in which players buy tickets with other lottery tickets like Monday and Wednesday or Saturday Lotto. Super 66 is drawn just before the main Saturday night lotto draw, while Lotto Strike is drawn on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, just before the big lotto draw.
Lucky LotterLotto
Administered by New South Wales Lotteries, these games are based on traditional draw lotteries (raffles), where a set number of tickets (usually 225,000) are offered for sale in each draw.
Players choose either random or sequential ticket numbers. Once all tickets are sold, the raffle takes place, and a set of numbered tickets is drawn by a random number generator. Each lottery has a jackpot that grows until it is won, and you can play $2 or $5 tickets.
The Australian Soccer Pools
The soccer pools are drawn every Saturday based on Australian, European, and other soccer matches around the globe. The 38 matches are numbered from 1 to 38.
For a standard game, you choose six numbers from 1-38. To determine the winning numbers, scores of each match are compared, and the top six games’ numbers are gathered based on ranking rules: draws rank highest, then away wins followed by home wins. The seventh game is used as the supplementary number.
AUD Deposits and Withdrawals
The financial transactions for purchasing Aussie lotto tickets online and withdrawing any winnings from your account at licensed and government-monitored sites such as Oz Lotteries are 100% secure. Oz Lotteries complies with standard online security measures and allows deposit methods such as PayPal, Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards, BPAY and Diners Club International. Winnings are paid by set dates after the draw completion and are immediately available for withdrawal or additional purchases once paid to your account. Request a withdrawal by cheque or direct deposit to your bank account (ID must be verified).
Lotto Games on Mobiles and Tablets
OzLotteries.com is 100% compatible with smartphones and tablets such as iPhones and iPads, Android Samsungs, HTCs and Sonys, Windows phones and BlackBerries, and other older data-enabled devices like those using WAP technology.
The site functions exactly as it does on a desktop computer—you can check all the latest lottery game results, navigate easily to purchase all game-type tickets, and utilise safe and secure AUD currency banking, with transactions protected by 128-bit SSL encryption technology.
Customers receive an email confirmation for every Oz Lotteries transaction they have made, and you can view all purchased tickets in your account directly on your mobile or tablet device.
With all the above lottery games available online, you can now also play Australian and International lottery online with a great mobile app called the Lottoland App.