Guaranteed Gains

 

Guaranteed gains aren’t something that lottery players can experience personally, but good causes will always benefit from lotteries. Almost all lottery games assign a proportion of profits to good causes, and these can make participating in the lottery a perfectly productive thing to do even if you don’t win.

Let’s consider the situation where a player starts buying two UK Lotto tickets every week at the age of 20 and continues to do so until the age of 70. Over the entire period of fifty years, this player would buy 5,200 tickets at a cost of £5,200 (assuming the price of lottery tickets remains the same).

The chances of this player winning a jackpot are remote, but even if they don’t win a penny, their lottery purchases would have made a very useful contribution to the various good causes associated with the Lotto. With 28p in every £1 going to good causes, over fifty years £1,456 of the £5,200 would have been used to help fund various projects, so participating will still have been very worthwhile.

And, of course, the player would have had 5,200 chances of winning prizes of varying amounts, and any single win of £5,200 or more would guarantee him an overall profit. Whatever happens, good cause would have certainly benefited from the guaranteed gains that the lottery makes possible.

So, the next time you choose to buy a lottery ticket, feel proud of yourself. Not only are you buying yourself a burst of excitement and chance of winning a fortune, you’re also providing guaranteed gains for some very worthy good causes.

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