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Africa

 * 🇰🇪 Kenya: Toto 6/49, Kenya Charity Sweepstakes
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa: South African National Lottery

North and South America

 * 🇦🇷 Argentina: Quiniela, Loto and various others
 * 🇧🇧 Barbados: Barbados lottery and various others
 * 🇧🇴 Bolivia: Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia y Salubridad
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil: Mega-Sena and various others
 * 🇨🇦 Canada: Lotto 6/49 and Lotto Max
 * 🇨🇱 Chile: Polla Chilena de Beneficencia S.A.
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica: Lotería Nacional, Chances Lotería Popular, Lotería Tiempos, and Lotería Instantanea (better known as "Raspaditas" since the tickets are scratch cards).
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: Lotería Electrónica Internacional Dominicana S.A.
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador: Lotería Nacional
 * 🇸🇻 El Salvador: Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia, Lotín (scratch cards).
 * 🇭🇳 Honduras: Loterías Electronicas de Honduras S.A.
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico: Lotería Nacional para la Asistencia Pública and Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública
 * 🇺🇸 United States: state lotteries in almost every state, along with 2 multi-state lotteries Mega Millions, Powerball

Asia

 * 🇨🇳 China: China Welfare Lottery, China Sports Lottery
 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: Mark Six
 * 🇮🇱 Israel: Lotto
 * 🇯🇵 Japan: Takarakuji (宝くじ)
 * 🇱🇧 Lebanon: La Libanaise des Jeux
 * Macau: Macau SLOT
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia:Still Keep Confidential
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines: Philippine Lotto Draw
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore: Singapore Pools
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea: Lotto (also called 'Bok-Kwon' or 복권)
 * 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka: National Lottery, Development Lottery
 * 🇹🇼 Taiwan: Taiwan Lottery
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand: สลากกินแบ่งรัฐบาล (salak gin bang ratthabarn or "Government Lottery"), also called lottery or หวย (huay).
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey: Various games by the National Lottery Administration under the name of Loto Türkiye including Loto 6/49 and jackpots
 * Vietnam: Xổ số kiến thiết

Australasia

 * 🇦🇺 Australia: OZ Lotto, Powerball, Lotto
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand: NZ Lotteries

Europe

 * 🇨🇭 Pan-European: EuroMillions
 * Nordic countries: Viking Lotto
 * 🇦🇹 Austria: Lotto 6 aus 45, EuroMillions and Zahlenlotto
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium: Loterie Nationale or Nationale Loterij and EuroMillions
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: Durzhavna lotariya, TOTO 2 (6/49, 6/42, 5/35)
 * 🇭🇷 Croatia: Hrvatska lutrija
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic: Sazka
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark: Lotto, Klasselotteriet
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Lotto, scratch tickets, racing & football pools (Veikkaus)
 * 🇫🇷 France: La Française des Jeux
 * 🇩🇪 Germany: Lotto 6 aus 49, Spiel 77 and Super 6
 * 🇬🇷 Greece: OPAP (ΟΠΑΠ – Οργανισμός Προγνωστικών Αγώνων Ποδοσφαίρου), Lotto 6/49, Joker 5/45 + 1/20 and various others
 * 🇭🇺 Hungary: Lottó (5/90 6/45 and 7/35)
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland: Lottó
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland: The National Lottery (An Chrannchur Náisiúnta) and EuroMillions
 * 🇮🇹 Italy: Lotto, SuperEnalotto, Win for Life
 * 🇱🇻 Latvia: Latloto 5/35, SuperBingo, Keno
 * 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein: International Lottery in Liechtenstein Foundation
 * 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: EuroMillions
 * 🇲🇹 Malta: Super 5 and Lotto
 * 🇲🇰 Macedonia: Lotarija na Makedonija
 * 🇲🇪 Montenegro: Lutrija Crne Gore
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Nationale Postcode Loterij, Staatsloterij (The State Lottery)
 * 🇳🇴 Norway: Lotto
 * 🇵🇱 Poland: Lotto
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal: Lotaria Clássica, EuroMillions and Lotaria Popular
 * 🇷🇴 Romania: Loteria Română (6/49, 5/40, Joker)
 * 🇷🇺 Russia: Gosloto (Гослото, The State Lottery)
 * Republika Srpska: Lutrija Republike Srpske
 * 🇷🇸 Serbia: Državna Lutrija Srbije (The State Lottery of Serbia)
 * 🇸🇰 Slovakia: Loto
 * 🇸🇮 Slovenia: Loterija Slovenije
 * 🇪🇸 Spain: Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, EuroMillions and ONCE
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden: Lotto (Svenska Spel)
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland: Swiss Lotto and EuroMillions
 * 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Ukrayinska Natsionalna Lotereya (Українська Нацiональна Лотерея, Ukrainian National Lottery)
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: The National Lottery, the main game being Lotto. Also Monday – The Charities Lottery and EuroMillions

Country lottery details
In several countries, lotteries are legalized by the governments themselves. Several on-line lotteries and traditional lotteries with online payments exist. In the on-line lotteries, the user has to select their number and must either watch an ad for a few seconds before the selection is confirmed, or click on a web banner/link to register the pick in the system. The numbers may be drawn by the site that runs the online lottery or might be linked to a major physical lottery draw to ensure reliability. Prize money ranges from $100,000 to $100 million.

Australia
In Australia, lotteries operators are licensed at a state or territory level, and include both state government-owned and private sector companies.

Canada
In Canada prior to 1967 buying a ticket on the Irish Sweepstakes was illegal. In that year the federal Liberal government introduced a special law (an Omnibus Bill) intended to bring up-to-date a number of obsolete laws. Pierre Trudeau, the Minister of Justice at that time, sponsored the bill. On September 12, 1967, Mr. Trudeau announced that his government would insert an amendment concerning lotteries.

Even while the Omnibus Bill was still being written, Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, trying to recover some of the money spent on the World’s Fair and the new subway system, announced a "voluntary tax". For a $2.00 "donation" a player would be eligible to participate in a draw with a grand prize of $100 000. According to Drapeau, this "tax" was not a lottery for two reasons. The prizes were given out in the form of silver bars, not money, and the "competitors" chosen in a drawing would have to reply correctly to four questions about Montreal during a second draw. That competition would determine the value of the prize that the winner would win. The replies to the questions were printed on the back of the ticket and therefore the questions would not cause any undue problems. The inaugural draw was held on May 27, 1968.

There were debates in Ottawa and Quebec City about the legality of this 'voluntary tax'. The Minister of Justice alleged it was a lottery. Montreal’s mayor replied that it did not contravene the federal law. While everyone awaited the verdict, the monthly draws went off without a hitch. Players from all over Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia participated.

On September 14, 1968 the Quebec Appeal Court declared Mayor Drapeau’s "voluntary tax" illegal. However, the municipal authorities did not give up the struggle; the Council announced in November that the City would appeal this decision to the Supreme Court.

As the debate over legalities continued, sales dropped significantly, because many people did not want to participate in anything illegal. Despite offers of new prizes the revenue continued to drop monthly, and by the nineteenth and final draw, was only a little over $800 000.

On December 23, 1969 an amendment was made to the Canada's Criminal Code, allowing a provincial government to legally operate lottery systems.

The first provincial lottery in Canada was Quebec's Inter-Loto in 1970. Other provinces and regions introduced their own lotteries through the 1970s, and the federal government ran Loto Canada (originally the Olympic Lottery) for several years starting in the late 1970s to help recoup the expenses of the 1976 Summer Olympics. Lottery wins are generally not subject to Canadian tax, but may be taxable in other jurisdictions, depending on the residency of the winner.

Today, Canada has two nation-wide lotteries: Lotto 6/49 and Lotto Max (the latter replaced Lotto Super 7 in September 2009). These games are administered by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation, which is a consortium of the five regional lottery commissions, all of which are owned by their respective provincial and territorial governments:


 * Atlantic Lottery Corporation (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador)
 * Loto-Québec (Quebec)
 * Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (Ontario)
 * Western Canada Lottery Corporation (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
 * British Columbia Lottery Corporation (British Columbia)

Primary, 48% of the total sales are used for jackpot, with the remaining 52% used for administration and sponsorship of hospitals and other local causes.

France
The first known lottery in France was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.

Lotteries quickly became one of the most important resources for religious congregations in the 18th century, and helped to build or rebuild about 15 churches in Paris, including St. Sulpice and Le Panthéon. At the beginning of the century, the King avoided having to fund religious orders by giving them the right to run lotteries, but the amounts generated became so large that the second part of the century turned into a struggle between the monarchy and the Church for control of the lotteries. In 1774, the monarchy—specifically Madame de Pompadour--founded the Loterie de L'École Militaire to buy what is called today the Champ de Mars in Paris, and build a military academy that Napoleon Bonaparte would later attend; they also banned all other lotteries, with 3 or 4 minor exceptions. This lottery became known a few years later as the Loterie Royale de France. Just before the French Revolution in 1789, the revenues from La Lotterie Royale de France were equivalent to between 5 and 7% of total French revenues.

Throughout the 18th century, philosophers like Voltaire as well as some bishops complained that lotteries exploit the poor. This subject has generated much oral and written debate over the morality of the lottery. All lotteries (including state lotteries) were frowned upon by idealists of the French Revolution, who viewed them as a method used by the rich for cheating the poor out of their wages.

The Lottery reappeared again in 1936, called lotto, when socialists needed to increase state revenue. Since that time, La Française des Jeux (government owned) has had a monopoly on most of the games in France, including the lotteries. There have also been reports of lotteries regarding the mass guillotine executions in France. It has been said that a number was attached to the head of each person to be executed and then after all the executions, the executioner would pull out one head and the people with the number that matched the one on the head were awarded prizes (usually small ones); each number was 3-to-5 digits long.

Liechtenstein
The International Lottery in Liechtenstein Foundation (ILLF) is a government authorised and state controlled charitable foundation that operates Internet lotteries. The ILLF pioneered Internet gaming, having launched the web’s first online lottery, PLUS Lotto, in 1995 and processed the first online gaming transaction ever. The International Lottery in Liechtenstein Foundation (ILLF) also introduced the first instant scratchcard games on the Internet during this time. The ILLF supports a wide range of charitable projects and organisations internationally and in Liechtenstein.

The ILLF operates many websites, referred to as the ILLF brands. Combined, these brands offer a wide array of games to choose from.

Lottery winnings are not taxed in Liechtenstein.

New Zealand
Lotteries in New Zealand are controlled by the Government. A state owned trading organisation, the New Zealand Lotteries Commission, operates low prize scratch ticket games and Powerball type lotteries with weekly prize jackpots. Lottery profits are distributed by the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board directly to charities and community organisations. Sport and Recreation New Zealand, Creative New Zealand and the New Zealand Film Commission are statutory bodies that operate autonomously in distributing their allocations from the Lottery Grants Board.

The lotteries are drawn on Saturday and Wednesday. Lotto is sold via a network of computer terminals in shopping centers across the nation. The Lotto game was first played in 1987 and replaced New Zealand's original national lotteries, the Art Union and Golden Kiwi. Lotto is a pick 6 from 40 numbers game. The odds of winning the first division prize of around NZ$300,000 to NZ$2 million are 1 in 3,838,380.

The Powerball game is the standard pick 6 from 40 Lotto numbers with an additional pick 1 from 10 Powerball number. This game has odds of 1 in 38,383,800 and a first prize of between NZ$1 million and NZ$30 million. In 2007 Powerball changed to a pick 1 of 10 game (formerly pick 1 of 8) and the minimum Powerball prize increased from $1 million to $2 million. Big Wednesday is a game played by picking 6 numbers from 45 plus heads or tails from a coin toss. A jackpot cash prize of NZ$1 million to NZ$15 million is supplemented with product prizes such as Porsche and Aston Martin cars, boats, holiday homes and luxury travel. The odds of winning first prize are 1 in 16,290,120.

Website operators independent of the state Lotteries Commission began publishing online Lotto results as early as 1998. An interactive Lotto website authorised to sell tickets online was established in 2007.

Lottery winnings are not taxed in New Zealand.

United States
In the United States, the existence of lotteries is subject to the laws of each state; there is no national lottery.

Private lotteries were legal in the United States in the early 19th century. In fact, a number of US patents were granted on new types of lotteries. In today's vernacular, these would be considered business method patents.

Before the advent of state-sponsored lotteries, many illegal lotteries thrived; for example, see Numbers game and Peter H. Matthews. The first modern state lottery in the U.S. was established in the state of New Hampshire in 1964; as of 2008, lotteries are established in 42 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; Arkansas voters, on November 4, 2008, approved a ballot question to legalize a state lottery.

The first modern interstate lottery in the U.S. was formed in 1985 and linked Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. In 1988, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) was formed with Oregon, Iowa, Kansas, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Missouri, and the District of Columbia as its charter members; it is best known for its "Powerball" drawing, which is designed to build up very large jackpots. As of May 2010 the following states are part of Powerball: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virgina, Washington, West Virgina and Wisconsin. Another interstate lottery, The Big Game (now called Mega Millions), was formed in 1996 by the states of Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan and Virginia as its charter members. These states were joined by New Jersey (1999), New York and Ohio (May 2002), Washington state (September 2002), Texas (2003) and California (2005) for a total of 12 members. In late 2009, MUSL and the Mega Millions consortium came to an agreement that allows jurisdictions that sponsor either game to sell tickets for both, starting in early 2010. As of late October 2010, Powerball is available in 44 jurisdictions and Mega Millions in 42, with 41 offering both games.

Instant lottery tickets, also known as scratch cards, were first introduced in the 1970s and have since become a major source of state lottery revenue. Some states have introduced keno and video lottery terminals (slot machines in all but name).

Other interstate lotteries include Cashola, Hot Lotto and Wild Card 2, some of MUSL's other games.

With the advent of the Internet it became possible for people to play lottery-style games on-line, many times for free (the cost of the ticket being supplemented by merely seeing an ad or some other form of revenue). GTech Corporation, in the United States, administers 70% of the worldwide online and instant lottery business, according to its website. With online gaming rules generally prohibitive, "lottery" games face less scrutiny. This is leading to the increase in web sites offering lottery ticket purchasing services, charging premiums on base lottery prices. The legality of such services falls into question across many jurisdictions, especially throughout the United States, as the gambling laws related to lottery play generally have not kept pace with the spread of technology.

Presently, large portions of many American state lotteries are used to fund public education systems.