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Play Online Austrian Lottery and Enjoy These Great Benefits

Play Online Austrian Lottery and Enjoy These Great Benefits

Guest Post | @indiablooms | 29 Apr 2019, 05:27 pm

The Austrian lottery is a bi-weekly lottery game where the draw happens twice a week on Sundays and Wednesdays. On Sunday, it happens at 18:00 and on Wednesday it takes place at 18:30, local Austrian time. Started in the mid-1980s, it has gone through many name changes and now it is popular by its local name, OsterreichischeLotterien or simply Austrian Lotteries. This lottery is officially sanctioned by the Austrian government.

How to Play the Austrian Lottery?

You can play it in both offline and online mode, and it is open to all. Initially, only Austrians were allowed to take part, but a few years back they opened it for all and sundry. The online platforms have played a big role in it as through platforms like Lottoland, which is a world leader in offering online platforms for international lotteries, you can access it from anywhere.

To play this particular lottery, you need to choose six numbers between 1 and 45. Winning a jackpot requires to match all the six chosen numbers with the drawn numbers. This medium range lottery has better odds at winning. If you are used to playing EuroMillions and US Powerball, you will find it different. This is because in this the jackpot numbers do not keep climbing up and there is a reason for that. And, it is that unlike other lotteries, where the bonus ball is drawn from a different set of numbers, here it is drawn from the same set. It is called Zusatzzahl in this Austrian lottery.

Thus, you are choosing 6 numbers from a total of 45 numbers and 7 numbers are drawn, including the Zusatzzahl from the same pool, which betters the winning odds. Now with better winning odds, the jackpot is hit more often and is one of the primary reasons why it doesn’t keep building up as it does in other lotteries like Powerball and MegaMillions.

Benefits of Playing Austrian Lottery

Here are the benefits of playing Austrian lottery:

  • In all, there are nine prize categories in this lottery and the bonus ball or Zusatzzahl determines the prize winners in some of these categories. If you just match the bonus ball and no other number, then too you win around INR 94.
  • Austria Lotto is a single drum lottery where 6 numbers are drawn from numbers ranging from 1 to 45. Along with these, Zusatzzahl, a bonus number is also drawn from the same 1-45 number range. Though this bonus number is not required for winning the jackpot, it helps in winning 4 of the 8 secondary prize categories, which are 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th.
  • Though there are no big mega draws, the USP of this lottery is that people win regularly because of good winning odds.
  • This lottery rolls and grows to start from one million Euro base. The best incentive for winning a prize in it is that it is completely tax-free. So, you will get the entire lump sum that is advertised with no cuts whatsoever. Isn’t it a great incentive to play this lottery? Yes, if you are not an Austrian and are playing online from some other part of the world, you will have to pay taxes according to your country’s taxation rules.

Since its inception in 1986, this lottery has given out more than INR 353 million in prizes. It has distributed nearly 42-43% of all money taken in back to the players as prize money. The three major benefits that have contributed to its popularity are tax-free prize money, great winning odds and anyone can play from anywhere in the world.

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