Play Mondays Lottery

[Jojo]

Does anyone else do this, or just me??

Its like the normal lottery, only you choose which charities are being supported with the tickets that you buy, which to me, at least I know where my money is going rather than it being spent on some piece of art at the local art centre etc.

[Luna]

i was going to start doing this but didnt really understand how it worked?? still dont lol - :rotfl:

[Jessie Wallace]

Does anyone else do this, or just me??

Its like the normal lottery, only you choose which charities are being supported with the tickets that you buy, which to me, at least I know where my money is going rather than it being spent on some piece of art at the local art centre etc.

I wonderedwhy you were asking about which for the 4 charity's you should support! :searchme:
Now i understand :thumbsup:

[Jojo]

:lol: Now you know Dawn

There is a choice of 5 charities you can support each week (they change each week) and you can either buy 1 lottery ticket supporting one charity or 5 supporting all of that weeks charities.

from their website
Overview

monday is played once a week, with the draw taking place every Monday evening.

Each weekly draw features five charities, with different charities featured each week. Tickets cost £1 per charity lottery and each ticket enters you into two jackpot draws.

For each ticket you buy you can win up to £100,000 in draw 1 and up to £200,000 in draw 2. The good news is that you can be unlucky and lose in the first draw, but still win in the second.

If you want to play in more than one charity lottery the easiest way to do so is to click Multiplay. A panel appears with six numbers randomly selected for each of that week’s five lotteries. You can change numbers or delete charity lotteries at this point.

Remember to win in all five lotteries you must play in all 5 lotteries.

To play in a single charity lottery simply select the charity you want to support, choose six numbers from 1 to 49 and press play. A separate screen then appears and you can change your numbers at this point or add more lines to increase your chances of winning.

To improve your chances, you don’t have to match all six numbers to win the jackpot. Instead, if no one matches all six, the nearest numbers win. So there are guaranteed winners, every week (we don’t believe in rollovers).
monday offers 27 times better chances of winning a jackpot than the National Lottery’s Lotto game. Remember - aside from a better chance of winning a jackpot, there are also much better prizes for matching 5, 4 or 3 numbers in our second draw.

This week, I decided (or Dawn decided for me) to put my tickets towards Macmillan and The Rainbow Trust so I know where my money has gone.

[Kim]

I'd never heard of it lol! I seriously should read the newspaper.

[Jojo]

I'd only heard of it through my mum and I think she saw an ad on the telly for it. I prefer it though to be honest

[Kim]

My parents don't do the lottery anymore but I'd prefer to enter that if I could as you know your money is going to make a substantial difference to someone, even if it is less likely than say the thunderball that you would win anything.

[Rain_]

I stopped doing the lottery ages ago when i decided the "worthy causes" weren't all that worthy. I might try this one though. Even if you don't win you still feel like your helping someone

[Jojo]

And for me the massive plus side is being able to choose which charity you are supporting, rather than your contribution going on a sand sculpture or something else like that.

[Rain_]

They use lottery money to buy sand sculptures?????

*goes off in search of bucket and spade*

[Kim]

The use of money for that is what I consider disgraceful. They could improve hospitals or roads or something if not anyone in particular.

[Jojo]

All these supposed good causes, but i wonder in whos eyes they are that - i haven't played the normal lottery for ages, mostly as i don't know where my money is truly going and also because they seem to be trying to get you to spend as much money as possible by introducing so many new games all the time.

[Kim]

Yeah, and making more profits by making it harder for people to win but tempting them to parttake with huge sums of money.

[Jojo]

Exactly - this way, its a smaller jackpot (and to me £100k is still a huge amount of money).

[Kim]

Even 25k is a huge amount. That's still than most people's yearly income before all the tax comes off of it.

[Jojo]

Definitely, I just think of it in terms of being able to afford to buy your own house these days or paying off my mortgage (must be my age lol).

[Dr. Tangliss]

I play it! I need the money, so I play every lottery.

[Jojo]

I had an email from them this week thanking players for donating over £1 million since the start of the lottery (in May I think it was). Knowing that that amount has been raised for charities is brilliant. 30p in every £1 is given to the chosen charities of your choice (supported by Play Monday, full list available on their website)

[Jojo]

You can win!!

I won £16 last week for matching 3 number :cheer:

Supporting Meningitis Trust this week (keeps fingers crossed) but if I don't win, I know I have supported a charity that is close to me.