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Sportsloto

« Sportsloto" - state lottery in the USSR. According to the system of rules, it is a variant of the internationally known gambling"keno". Played according to the systems " 5 out of 36" And " 6 out of 45”(the latter in 1986, at “numerous requests from workers,” replaced the “6 out of 49” system, with the goal of increasing the probability of winning by 30%), each number corresponded to a specific sport. The first draw of Sportloto took place on October 20, 1970; profits from the drawings (half of the proceeds from ticket sales) went to finance Soviet sports. Notes discussing winning strategies were discussed in periodicals, such as the journal Science and Life. During the years of the USSR, the program was broadcast live on Central Television, hosted by Tatyana Malysheva. In the 1970s, the 6 for 49 draw was held on Wednesdays and the 5 for 36 was held on Saturdays. In the early 1980s, both draws began to be held on Saturdays, and from the mid-1980s on Sundays. In the 1990s, it aired on the RTR channel (mid-90s) and on Channel One TV (1993-1998).

« Sports forecast" - a state lottery held since 1987, in fact, a state sports betting machine in the USSR in the form of a fixed express bet. The goal is to guess the outcome of at least 11 of 13 events in regular time, and the events are selected in such a way that the probability of the occurrence of individual two of the three outcomes of each event, according to expert assessment, is approximately equal. On the ticket it was necessary to mark one of three options for the result of a football (more rarely, another sport) match. In case of cancellation or postponement of the game after the date of the last event, the “result” was played in a lottery machine with balls “ 1 » « X» « 2 "(7 pieces each), and there was a case of drawing two such events in one draw. Tickets were initially similar to Sportsloto, where you had to mark exactly three options; after the launch of Lotto Million, they made lottery forms where you could mark up to four unique options; you can also place more than 1 outcome (two or three) for each event, with a corresponding increase in the price of the ticket. Currently held under the name “Sportprognoz-match”.

« Sportloto-Keno" - experiment in the system "6 (+1 called preferential ball) from 56", which began in the 90s. After relative unpopularity, the rules were changed to the existing ones (marked from 1 to 6 numbers, winnings are of a fixed size).

Our time

Based on Government Order Russian Federation dated September 14, 2009 No. 1318-r Sportloto LLC is the operator state lotteries, held in support of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi. Lottery organizer: Ministry of Finance of Russia. Sportloto is the only lottery company in Russia that has the right to use elements of Olympic symbols.

OOO " Sportsloto" is subsidiary company OJSC "Sberbank of Russia".

The goal is to revive the traditions of lotteries, in which each participant makes a contribution to the development of national sports and can win a big prize. Sportloto offers the “Sportloto 6 out of 49” and “KENO Sportloto” lotteries, as well as 10 instant lotteries.

More than 50% of all proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets constitute the lottery prize fund, from which winnings are paid to the winners.

Targeted contributions from the lottery will be sent to the budget of the Russian Federation.

Rules of the game

Those who wanted to try their luck purchased a Sportloto ticket at a specialized kiosk or at the Soyuzpechat kiosk. He marked the circulation number on the ticket and crossed out the selected numbers. Each number corresponded to a specific sport. Until the early 1980s, each draw consisted of two drawings. Then the system changed: there was only one draw per draw, but players now had the opportunity to cross out two options for sets of numbers on their tickets. The ticket consisted of parts A, B, C. Part A remained with the player, parts B and C were sent to the sports lottery department. Part B was probably machine readable.

A ticket was considered a winner if at least three crossed out numbers in one of the options matched the results of the draw indicated on it. The size of the winnings increased with the number of numbers guessed.

There were also ten-draw tickets, in which the marked combination was played in 10 draws in a row, starting with the marked one. If the ticket won at least one, the winnings were paid out within the time limits established for last edition. Since 1987, it could also be used as 10 regular ones.

Raffle

The drawing was held once a week, previously usually during a break in a sports broadcast. Then it began to be held on Sundays. Balls with numbers rotated in a transparent drum, which then fell into the chute one after another, determining the winning numbers.

As musical accompaniment the melody used was Popcorn performed by an ensemble led by Meshcherin.

Our time

The LOTTO 6x49 game draw is held once a week, on Saturdays

The KENO game draw is held every day,

Winning strategy

In popular culture

In the song by Vladimir Vysotsky (parodying the fascination of Soviet citizens with the theme of UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, etc.), patients of the “Kanatchikova Dacha” (psychiatric hospital) in their letter to the editor of the television program “Obvious-Incredible” warn:

...answer us, otherwise
If you don't respond -
We will write to Sportloto!

In 1982, Leonid Gaidai’s film “Sportloto-82” was released, the heroes of which are fighting for the right to own a ticket for which they got big win, in which the first six numbers are crossed out sequentially in two versions. The specified combination was partially repeated in real history (1,2,3,4)

In 1982, the group “Dynamic” dedicated the song “Sportloto” to the lottery.

...I'm taking a risk again
But I will never give up!
I'm taking a risk again
I'm playing Sportloto!

In December 1977, the 7th concert of Alexander Shevalovsky with the Oberton ensemble was recorded, 22 songs in the concert

<АШ>- If you are unlucky in the lottery, then you will definitely be lucky in Sportloto.

Play Sportsloto everywhere, play without swearing, know that you have more chances to waste your money here.

That's what Sportloto is for, there is no more gambling game, know that you pay the money - someone wins.

It’s not for nothing that there are four draws in each week, so that you can be knocked down without a knife, you know, you’re a brave player.

You pay your income voluntarily, peacefully, Play, don’t think about the catch - you’re a profitable player

If your forehead is like a chisel, or an oak from nature, play more Sportsloto, wait for your weather. (3 times)

Mikhail Boyarsky - “Olympic joke”: ... I myself am still playing “Sportloto”.

Verka Serduchka, song “Everything will be fine”

…
Life is like “Sportloto”!
I fell in love, but not that
Won the jackpot in love
I took a closer look - idiot!

Sometimes people compare the draw taking place in live(for example, choosing an option number for final school exams), with Sportloto.

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- “SPORTLOTO 82”, USSR, Mosfilm, 1982, color, 95 min. Eccentric comedy. In the carriage of a train heading to the Black Sea, passenger Kostya gave his fellow traveler Tanya a Sportloto ticket. Having filled out the ticket, Tanya returned it to Kostya for safekeeping. Kostya o... ... Encyclopedia of Cinema

Lottery Dictionary of Russian synonyms. sportloto noun, number of synonyms: 1 lottery (16) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Dictionary of synonyms

The first draw of Sportloto took place on October 20, 1970, at the Central House of Journalists. The format was based on the game "keno", one of the oldest in the world numerical lotteries. The Soviet version used the “6 out of 49” formula. The game immediately became popular; 1.5 million tickets were sold for the first edition, and within a week. This is all the more surprising since only Muscovites took part in the first draw; other cities joined the game gradually. Subsequently, each drawing accounted for up to 10 million tickets.

Membership circulation commission We decided to invite famous athletes, which later became a tradition. In the first draw, the drawing was followed by the famous football and hockey player Vsevolod Bobrov, commentator Nikolai Ozerov and his colleague Nina Eremina, a former basketball player.

The winner of the first drawing was Lidia Morozova, an engineer-economist from Moscow, who received main prize- 5000 rubles. For the country average salary which at that time did not exceed 200 rubles, the amount was truly gigantic. With the winnings you could buy new car"Moskvich"

Sportloto card, 7th edition 1970, part “A”

Subsequent circulations were carried out through. At that time, they resembled the draws of a cash and clothing lottery: members of the commission spun a transparent drum and with their hands took out balls with winning numbers. At first, tickets were sold in Moscow, the second city, in February, became Baku

Reverse side of the Sportloto card “6 out of 49”, 7th edition 1970

In 1971, the distribution network expanded: in March Yerevan was added, then (we indicate in the same order as we connected) - Odessa. Lvov, Kyiv, Tallinn, Zaporozhye, Sverdlovsk, Rostov-on-Don and Leningrad.

In the first 12 months, 70 million Sportloto cards were sold; participants received winnings worth 10,265,670 rubles - half the amount received from the sale of lottery tickets. The first year brought many big wins. Despite the fact that 5,000 rubles were paid for the correct six (very big money at that time), almost 10 people.

Also, in the first year it was possible to create 17 zonal Sportloto departments, and by the end of 1973 it was planned to cover all regions of the country

"Sportloto-2"

On October 20, 1973, a second game appeared - Sportloto-2, the circulation of which took place after the main one. The “Sportloto-2” card cost 60 kopecks, since it took part in two draws held on the same day, thereby increasing the chances of winning. And drawings began to be carried out using a lottery machine, which was designed and built by chief engineer Väino Paasik and mechanic Kalju Turja from the Special Design Bureau of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. The device they created mechanically mixed and automatically extracted the winning balls.

On January 10, 1974, draws of the Sportloto lotteries began to be held in Moscow, at the studio Central television and broadcast on the first program and the Vostok and Orbita systems, and millions of lottery fans got the opportunity to watch the draws on TV. The musical accompaniment was Gershon Kingsley's melody “Puffed Corn” performed by an ensemble led by Meshcherin.

Sportloto 5 of 36

On August 14, 1976, the first draw of a new sports-numbers lottery with the formula “5 out of 36”, called “Saturday Sports Lotto,” took place. The cards of this lottery took part in a draw that consisted of two drawings held weekly on Saturdays.

Announcement of lottery 5 out of 36 (first name “Saturday Sportloto”) in the newspaper “Soviet Sport”

New circulation devices were put into operation - pneumotrons, in which the mixing of balls was carried out by a jet of compressed air. “Saturday Sports Lotto” was intended to finance the XXIII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. 36 Olympic sports were assigned conditional sport numbers.

“Saturday Sports Lotto” card, part “A”. 13th and 14th edition, 1970

Additional ball and other innovations

In 1977, (from the 37th draw), in order to increase the popularity of the “6 out of 49” lottery, an additional bonus ball began to be played in it, which increased the likelihood of winning the lottery. In August 1978, all numerical lotteries were transferred to non-draw cards. The maximum winning amount was increased from 5,000 to 10,000 rubles. Draws of the “6 out of 49” and “5 out of 36” lotteries (formerly “Saturday Sports Lotto”) began to be held every Saturday, the drawing was carried out using a pneumatic machine.

In January 1981, another change in the conditions of the game took place, the purpose of which was to make it more exciting and offer participants more options for filling out tickets. The Sportloto draw began to be carried out not from four, but from two draws - one for “6 out of 49”, the other for “5 out of 36”. The ticket itself has also changed; another field has been added so that you can participate in two options (combinations)

“Sportloto” form 5 out of 36, for 2 options

Taking into account the numerous wishes of the players who asked to return to the previous mechanical method of mixing balls, the circulation machines were replaced on January 1, 1982. Draws began to be carried out on two new lottery machines producing simultaneous extraction five or six balls with winning numbers. In January 1985, they were improved, and they began to remove the balls not all together, but one by one.

Sportloto 6 out of 45

Since January 1986, to increase the probability of winning (by 30%), the number lottery "6 out of 49" was replaced by the number lottery "6 out of 45"

Archive of lottery draws “6 out of 49”, 1970 - 1985

Archive of lottery draws “5 out of 36”, 1976 - 1992

Archive of lottery draws “6 out of 45”, 1986 - 1992

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Records and interesting facts

Lottery “5 out of 36” (1981-1992)

The maximum number of options that took part in one lottery draw is: 28 672 799 (1991, 15th printing)
Maximum winnings for 5 numbers in one “5 out of 36” draw - 414 (1990, 17th printing).
In the same circulation it was recorded minimum size winnings for 5 numbers - 1289 rubles The fact is that in the 17th draw of 1990 the same combination came up (3, 5, 12, 16 and 30) as in the 28th draw of 1988. Then 5 numbers matched 22 options, the winnings amounted to 10 thousand rubles.
Number 9 was dropped 5 times consecutively from the 29th to the 33rd edition of 1983.
Number 10 was dropped 5 times consecutively from the 31st to the 35th edition of 1985.
By 4 times numbers 32 (18-21 circulations of 1981), 29 (from the 37th to 40th editions of 1983), 26 (47-50, 1986), 18 (10-13, 1988) and again 29 (32- 35, 1989).
4 numbers in a row appeared in the 8th draw of 1982 (combination 9, 10, 11, 12, 32), in the 15th draw of 1984 (1, 14, 15, 16, 17) and in the 32nd draw of 1987 ( 4, 8, 9, 10, 11).

Lottery "6 out of 49" (1970-1985)

Number 18 was dropped 5 times consecutively from the 51st edition in 1977 to the 3rd edition in 1978.
Number 41 dropped out 5 times consecutively from the 45th to the 49th edition of 1979.
Number 30 was dropped 5 times consecutively from the 3rd to the 7th printing in 1981.
4 numbers in a row appeared in the 8th draw of “Sportloto-2” in 1975 (combination 18, 31, 32, 33, 34, 45), in the 47th draw of “Sportloto-2” in 1978 (12, 16, 34, 35, 36 , 37) and in the 16th edition of 1980 (15, 24, 34, 35, 36, 37).
Taking into account the preferential (seventh) ball 4 numbers in a row appeared in the 35th draw of Sportloto-2 in 1979 (combination 2, 21, 23, 24, 38, 42 + 22).

Lottery "6 out of 45" (1986-1992)

The largest number of options that took part in one draw of the “Sportloto - 6 out of 45” lottery - 3 million 449 thousand 315 (52nd edition 1991)!
The maximum winning amount for 5 numbers (with an option price of 30 kopecks) is 9 416 rubles in the 34th edition of 1986. This is more than the winnings for all 6 numbers matched in the 31st draw in 1990 ( 9 057 rubles)!
Number 12 was dropped 5 times consecutively from the 4th to the 8th printing in 1989.
By 4 times numbers 7 (14-17 editions of 1986), 11 (from 47th to 50th edition 1987), 7 again (from 48th to 51st edition of the same year 1987), 33 (8-11 , 1989) and 8 (32-35, 1990).
4 numbers in a row appeared in the 16th draw of 1987 (combination 18, 33, 34, 35, 36, 43), in the 20th draw of the same 1987 (27,28,29,30,37,44) and in the 44th draw 1992 (12, 21, 41, 42, 43, 44).

Records were collected by Denis Denisenko ( [email protected]) in 2008-2010. The original version of his page is no longer supported; the information remains in

You sent a lot of stories. Thanks to everyone who took the time to write their family history. And now - the exciting moment - we announce the winners and publish their stories.

“My dad played Sportloto before I was born and when I was born, he guessed 5 numbers. I received 5,000 rubles in my hands - and worked as a mechanic with a salary of 90 rubles - and always said that I was a lucky child. I remember he always wrote something in the evenings - he compiled systems. In an evening I could fill up an 18-page notebook. And he always said: make 100 bets - one option wins...” (Dmitry Musaev)

"My grandfather's sister Soviet era worked in a logging village at the post office. Well, as expected, lottery tickets were sold there. So, one woman came to receive a pension and her aunt, so to speak, foisted last ticket cash and clothing lottery. The result is a Dnepr motorcycle with a sidecar. And it was worth good money back then!” (Sasha Maltsev)

“In 1984, a housemate, who was 16 years old at the time, won a Volga car. A policeman accompanied her home. Her family lived very poorly; they sold the car for 15,000 rubles.” (Svetlana Ryabova)

“Dad had a stable combination, which he crossed out time after time, and mom treated his hobby with disdain... And then one day (it was the end of the 80s) she was lying on the sofa and dad approached her with a glassy look, looks at her. She can't understand anything. He asks: “Where is the last ticket I bought?” But my mother doesn’t remember and says that she threw it away. Dad is shocked, mom doesn’t understand anything... And then he tells her: “We won the “nine”!” At that time, it was the coolest car. They found the ticket. And then all the relatives learned about the good news: they announced on the radio that a resident of Barnaul had won such a prize.” (Anastasia Borisova)

“True story. My father worked in Moscow, on Nametkina Street, in a laundry on a forklift. This happened in the 1980s. When receiving a salary, they gave several DOSAAF tickets to the load. One of the tickets had a winnings - a Ural motorcycle with a sidecar. Translated into money, approximately 1800 rubles - a huge amount at that time. I remember we discussed what to take, a prize or money. They took it with money. Of course, they found out everything at work, since all the tickets were registered in the accounting department. Some congratulated, while others were envious.” (Lyokha Orekhov)

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An interesting point - despite the fact that the winnings of the first category (6 out of 49) during the period under review were 5,000 rubles, the amounts listed here are much larger. Perhaps the winners played systems (complete or incomplete), and the winnings increased due to smaller categories. But, in order to play this way, it is necessary that the frequency of draws and the cost of the bet be gentle.

In the first years of Sportloto’s existence, draws took place once every 10 days, that is, only three times a month! And that was quite enough... No joke, 560 million cards were sold in the first 100 editions! This is (on average) 5.6 million per circulation. Such scales for the current reincarnation of "Sportloto "6 out of 49", calling itself " A revived legend of Soviet times" are simply unattainable. Today we are offered a pale shadow, just a ridiculous parody of the lottery.

Source: timelottery, article " "

Almost every article telling about how the history of Soviet Sportloto began contains a mention of the first big winner - Muscovite Lidia Morozova, who guessed 6 numbers in the first draw and won 5,000 rubles. For 1970, this is a lot of money; for example, the average salary was about 115 rubles

However, this case is not exceptional. Large winnings in the following draws happened regularly, moreover, their size was even greater, here are a few records:

Winning amount and owner

10,000 rubles - driver V. Anisimov, Moscow

12,800 rubles - musician A. Panferov, Alma-Ata

15,600 rubles - Leningrad worker A. Khmelev

18,720 rubles - driver I. Stakle, Latvian SSR

20,840 rubles - employee A. Kudasov, Moscow

24,014 rubles - workers I. Maslovsky and V. Butivchenko, Zhdanov

24,488 rubles - worker G. Dobin, Leningrad

34,490 rubles - mechanic B. Oxlander, Tallinn

And, a particularly large win (in the 102nd draw) went to the engineer of the Leningrad Admiralty Association I. Grigoriev - 58,463 rubles

The hundredth edition of Sportloto took place on July 20, 1973, in Kharkov. In total, 560 million cards were sold during this time. That's three years! It turned out to be a very large-scale lottery, a “game of millions” in the most literal sense of the word.

30th edition of Sportloto, held in Voroshilovgrad

Over three years, 76 million rubles were paid to the players. The total amount allocated for the construction of sports facilities and facilities, the organization and holding of sports events and the purchase of sports equipment amounted to about 50 million rubles

Number of wins by group

6 rooms - 31

5 numbers - 8 997

4 numbers - 510 045

3 numbers - 9 568 988

Average winnings in 1971

5 rooms - 2,665 rubles

4 numbers - 60 rubles

3 numbers - 4 rubles

Circulation table for 1971 (the data is not yet complete, but is gradually being filled in)

Targeted contributions from the lottery will be sent to the budget of the Russian Federation.

Story

Sportloto is a state lottery in the USSR. The first draw of “Sportloto” took place on October 20, 1970 in the Moscow Central House of Journalists, the profits from the drawings (half of the proceeds from ticket sales) were spent on financing Soviet sports. One and a half million tickets took part in the drawing. The winner was a Muscovite whose profession (engineer-economist) was directly related to numbers. Her winnings amounted to 5,000 rubles. This is 3 years of work of a Soviet engineer, or 62 pairs of imported women's boots, or the cost of a new Moskvich car.

The lottery ticket was filled out manually. In the tables it was necessary to cross out the playing numbers with crosses. In the 80s, one ticket had two independent options, each of which could win the draw. The cut-off part A remained with the player, and parts B and C were dropped into the yellow box of the Sportloto kiosk. The ticket cost 60 kopecks.

After the success of the “Sportloto 6 out of 49” lottery, new formula- "5 out of 36", and "6 out of 49" was later converted into "6 out of 45". Each drawing involved up to 10,000,000 tickets, and sometimes even more, which is an absolute record in history Soviet lotteries. Notes discussing winning strategies were published in periodicals, for example, in the journal Science and Life. During the years of the USSR, the program was broadcast live on Central Television, hosted by Tatyana Malyshenko. In the 1970s, the 6 for 49 draw was held on Wednesdays and the 5 for 36 was held on Saturdays. In the early 1980s, both draws began to be held on Saturdays, and from the mid-1980s on Sundays. In the 1990s it aired on the RTR channel (mid-1990s) and on Channel One TV (1993-1998).

When interest in the lottery began to decline, winners who won the main prize - ten thousand rubles - were given an additional bonus - the right to an extraordinary purchase passenger car"Volga". Prize-winners living in rural areas could choose to purchase a Volga or a Soviet SUV Niva out of turn. Given the shortage of passenger cars in the USSR, this fueled interest in the lottery.

“Sportprognoz” is a sports lottery that appeared in the second half of the 80s in which you had to guess the outcome of sports matches. It was somewhat similar to bookmaker bets. A blank form cost 2 kopecks. Participation in the lottery was paid for when returning the ticket to the Sportloto kiosk.

“KENO-Sportloto” is an experiment in the “6 (+1 called preferential ball) out of 56” system, which began in the 1990s. After relative unpopularity, the rules were changed to the existing ones (1 to 10 numbers out of 80 are marked, winnings are of a fixed size).

Olympic lottery

In accordance with the application book, in support of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, the Government of the Russian Federation issued Order No. 1318-r dated September 14, 2009, on the basis of which All-Russian state lotteries began to be held.

The organizer of the lotteries was the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. The operator is Sportloto LLC.

Sportloto LLC also became an official partner of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee and the only lottery company in Russia that has the right to use elements of Olympic and Paralympic symbols.

In February 2011, 10 instant lotteries Sportloto: “Sports Season”, “Sports Without Borders”, “Russian Games”, “Forward to Victory”, “Peaks of Success”, “Faster, Higher, Stronger!”, “Fun Starts”, “Patterns on Ice”, “ Sports Festival", "Let's go!". Ticket prices ranged from 20 to 100 rubles. Prize fund was more than 50%.

In October 2011, the first draws of “Sportloto 6 out of 49” and “Keno-Sportloto” were held. "Sportloto 6 out of 49" - lottery for classical formula, popular back in the USSR. Now this lottery draws are held daily at 09:30, 15:30 and 21:30 Moscow time. "Keno-Sportloto" is a numerical draw lottery. On at the moment, draws are held every 15 minutes, and the maximum win is 10,000,000 rubles.

By the time of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in February 2014, more than 10,000,000 people took part in the Sportloto lotteries.

Rules of the game

Tickets can be purchased at various retail outlets sales or on specialized websites.

“Sportloto 6 out of 49” is a revived legend of Soviet times. This is a numerical lottery, to participate in which you just need to fill out a game coupon and pay lottery receipt.

The goal of the game is to guess from 3 to 6 numbers in one playing field. To participate in the draw, you need to fill out the game coupon and pay the lottery receipt. There are 6 fields in the game coupon.

The minimum lottery bet “Sportloto 6 out of 49” includes 6 numbers in one playing field and costs 20 rubles. If a participant chooses from 6 to 17 numbers on the playing field, such a bet is called expanded and includes not one, but several combinations of 6 numbers. The probability and amount of winning on a spread bet is significantly higher.

The game has an additional bonus ball, which is issued by lottery equipment after formation winning combination of 6 numbers. If his number coincides with one of the selected numbers in the bet of a participant in the draw, in which 5 numbers have already been guessed, the amount of winnings awarded to the participant for 5 numbers will increase. The bonus ball belongs to the same set of balls as the main one game combination. Therefore, only in “Sportloto 6 of 49” are cases possible when on one ticket 6 numbers can be guessed 2 times (more precisely, 6 numbers of the winning combination + the combination “5 numbers + bonus ball”).

"KENO-Sportloto" is a numerical lottery that is held in real time every 15 minutes. The lottery has 42 categories with fixed winnings (from 60 to 5,000,000 rubles) and a super prize of 10,000,000 rubles. The participant indicates in advance how many numbers (from 1 to 10 numbers) he is going to guess. The minimum ticket price is 60 rubles and does not depend on the choice of game option. Applying a multiplier increases both the cost of the ticket and the size of the potential winnings. Most big win- 10 million rubles - provided if the participant guessed 10 numbers out of 10 using a 10-fold multiplier. A random number generator (RNG) is used to determine the winning combination.

"Matchball" is a numerical lottery that is held live every day at 20:00 Moscow time. The cost of one ticket is from 50 rubles. The participant chooses from 5 numbers out of 50 in the first field and from 1 number out of 11 in the second. To win a super prize (from 10 million rubles), you need to guess 5 numbers in the first field and 1 number (the so-called “bonus ball”) in the second. In the remaining 9 prize categories They win tickets where they guess two numbers in the first field or a bonus ball.

Raffle

The drawing was held once a week, at first, usually during a break in a sports broadcast. Then it began to be held on Sundays. The lottery was carried out first using a vertical rectangular lottery machine, then using an electromechanical horizontal drum lottery machine, which was driven by removing a metal knitting needle from a cell of numbers, after which balls with numbers rotated in the lottery machine, which then fell into the chute one after another, determining the numbers - winners. Last ball stayed in a plastic basket. In some episodes, there was also a mechanical lottery drum in the studio, which was rotated by members of the circulation commission and determined the lucky coupons sent by viewers, to whose addresses they were sent cash prizes in an envelope.

The musical accompaniment was the melody Puffed Corn/Popcorn performed by the ensemble under the direction of Meshcherin and musical compositions Latvian group "Zodiac".

Until February 2013, a special numbering was used for each next edition, where the first two digits indicate the number of years that have passed since 1990, the second two digits indicate the week number in the current year, and the last digit is the day of the week on which the drawing is held. Since March 2013, continuous numbering of circulations has been used.

Our time

Today Sportloto includes the games “Sportloto 6 of 49”, “KENO Sportsloto”, as well as 10 instant lotteries (“Sports Season”, “Sports Without Borders”, “Russian Games”, “Forward to Victory”, “Peaks of Success”, “Faster, higher, stronger!”, “Fun starts”, “Patterns on Ice”, “Sports Festival”, “Let's go!”).

“Sportloto 6 out of 49” is a game based on the classic formula, draws of which have been held three times a day since March 2013. Draw start times are 9:30, 15:30, 21:30 Moscow time.

In the 23113th draw of “Sportloto 6 of 49”, which took place on June 2, 2013, for the first time in modern history A super prize was drawn for this game. Its amount was 10,000,000 rubles. The second largest prize went to the winner of the 23168th distribution circulation games (April 26, 2014), its amount is 2,241,003 rubles.

Instant non-draw lotteries "Sportloto" are available both at lottery kiosks and online, on the website of the operator TD "Stoloto". The maximum possible win today is 3,000,000 rubles.

Sportsloto is official lottery XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi.

Based on the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated September 14, 2009 No. 1318-r, Sportloto LLC is the operator of state lotteries held in support of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi. The lottery organizer is the Ministry of Finance of Russia. Sportloto is the only lottery company in Russia that has the right to use elements of the Olympic symbols.

Draws for the KENO-Sportloto game are held every day every 15 minutes (from 02:00 to 06:00 Moscow time - technical break). The minimum ticket price is 10 rubles, which is one of the lowest among state lotteries. Winning combination determined by the generator random numbers. Winnings are fixed, from 20 to 1,000,000 rubles.

Winning strategy

In the article “Psychology of Sportloto”, published in the journal “Science and Life” for 1980, No. 1, a strategy was discussed in which it was proposed to play against the crowd - that is, choose numbers in a way that a typical player is unlikely to choose, for example, located in one row, column or diagonally. Thus, it was proposed to reduce the number of competitors in case of winning.

Many gamblers, both abroad and in Russia, have attracted and are attracting mathematical apparatus (in particular, probability theory) in an attempt to create a winning strategy for numerical lotteries, which include Sportsloto and the Keno lottery, popular all over the world. Most of them are based on multi-level analysis of a large sample of the results of previous circulations (as, for example, Georg Goldman proposes to do).” warn:

In December 1977, the 7th concert of Alexander Shevalovsky with the Oberton ensemble was recorded:

If you are unlucky in the lottery, then you will definitely be lucky in Sportloto.
Sportsloto, play everywhere, play, don’t swear,
Know that there are more chances to part with money here.
That’s why it’s Sportloto, there’s no more exciting game,
Know that you pay the money - someone wins.
It’s not for nothing that there are four circulations per week,
To knock you down without a knife, know that you are a brave player.
You voluntarily and peacefully pay your income tax,
Play, don’t think about the catch - you are a profitable player.
If the forehead is like a chisel, or an oak from nature,
Play more Sportsloto, wait for your weather.

Mikhail Boyarsky - “Olympic joke”: “I myself am still playing Sportloto.”

Verka Serduchka, song “Everything will be fine”: