Millionaire Raffle - can I run one?

tomcollins97 · 25-06-2008 12:37pm #1

Ok – so what I want to know is how do you set up a lottery? Are there licences, capital requirements etc involved? Could I auction off my house if I wanted? Can you set a minimum take or the draw doesn’t happen? Could I set up a lottery like the National Lottery are doing.

The new lotto Millionaires Raffle will take in €6 million in ticket money & give out €3.6 million in prizes, netting them a cool €2.4 million profit (obviously running costs will be deducted from this). What is to stop me or you from doing this??

EKRIUQ · 25-06-2008 1:34pm

Have a read through this

Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1956

Should answer most of your questions

51fun · 17-07-2008 12:47pm

this millionaire draw is only susposed to be open to the first 300.000 buyers my friend bought one last saturday his ticket was numbered 346012
has anyone else expirenced this ?
a scam or what ?

ShooterSF · 18-07-2008 10:22am

lol makes for interesting reading. So I can hold a lottery at a "dance" as long as the prize money is no more than £25

leaba · 18-07-2008 10:30am

I was wondering about the numbers too and found this....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Lottery#Millionaire_Raffle

Skyuser · 24-07-2008 3:42am

51fun wrote: »

this millionaire draw is only susposed to be open to the first 300.000 buyers my friend bought one last saturday his ticket was numbered 346012
has anyone else expirenced this ?
a scam or what ?

I believe the first number was 123456

CapedCrusader · 25-07-2008 12:35pm

You get around a lot of it by making it a "test of skill". So you ask a question:

"What is the capital of Ireland?"

A: Jupiter
B: Frakenstein
C: Dublin

:-)

giggsy664 · 26-08-2008 8:49pm

51fun wrote: »

this millionaire draw is only susposed to be open to the first 300.000 buyers my friend bought one last saturday his ticket was numbered 346012
has anyone else expirenced this ?
a scam or what ?

The tickets start at 123456

Vain · 26-08-2008 8:53pm

anyone know how to check if uv won off net not in shop

blue4ever · 27-08-2008 9:41am

CapedCrusader wrote: »

You get around a lot of it by making it a "test of skill". So you ask a question:

"What is the capital of Ireland?"

A: Jupiter
B: Frakenstein
C: Dublin

:-)

In the ‘Lottery Wars’ way back in the 80’s/90’s when IN+M did the first one and were challenged – the initial ruling was that there had to be an ‘element of skill’ – then when some companies really started taking the Mickey (What’s 1+1?) they High court ruled that is could not be ‘colourable skill’ – a dubious and particularly grey area to define I would suggest!