Online Lottery Syndicates
One of the best ways to play the lottery is to join a syndicate. According to The National Lottery website "1 in 4 Lotto jackpots are won by a syndicate"! By pooling together your money you'll have extra lines each week in the various lottery draws such as Thunderball, Set For Life and Euromillions. All you have to do is find some friends, family, work collegeaues or even neighbours to syndicate with!
Starting A Lottery Syndicate
The idea of a Lottery Syndicate sounds pretty straightforward. Collect the money, buy the tickets, hope that luck is on your side. However syndicates do need some structure and organisation. Who's going to be in charge of collecting the money, buying the tickets and how will it work. Will small wins be reinvested? What happens if someone misses a payment? Will the group want publicity if there's a big win. To help you get started, The National Lottery site has a whole section dedicated to setting up your own syndicate. Just apply for the free syndicate kit online and get organised. The National Lottery also advise that you set up a syndicate agreement - just to avoid any problems should you hit the jackpot - and there's a template to use on the site too.
Online Lotto Syndicates
If you want to be in a syndicate, but don't have the time to organise one then sites like Lotto Social and LottoGo offer services that might be of interest. They claim to be the "smart way to play the National Lottery & Euromillions". You pay a fee each week and that gets you syndicated in a number of lotto lines. A couple of things to note though is that you will need to claim your winnings if you get lucky as it's not automatic and there's no information about prize distribution. By this we mean if your syndicate wins £10 or £50 or 3/4 ball lines.
Lotto Social v LottoGo
There have been a number of online lottery syndicate sites launched over the years. Lotto Social describe themselves as a "Hassle-Free Lottery Gateway" that offer "More Lines, More Chances, Less Cost". LottoGo simply offer the chance to "bet on the world's biggest jackpots with a syndicate". At Lotto Social you can play 10 Euromillions Lines for just £1 but it's 40 entries for £2 at LottoGo. Of the two services we think Lotto Social is the more dedicated lottery service. LottoGo also offers access to bingo, slots and other games. In terms of player reviews, Lotto Social seems to attract a lot of negative comments about cancellations whilst LottoGo's poor ratings tend to be from disgruntled casino players.
Lottery Syndicates & Bingo
Lottery syndication has been used in other ways over the years. For example you could become part of a lotto syndicate is by playing bingo. Rollover Bingo, a then sister brand to Foxy Bingo, offered their players free Euromillions lotto lines when they spent money at the site. You get one free syndicated line for every £10 spent at the site. If you got 3 balls or 4 balls drawn then the prize was paid as a bingo bonus. Five ball wins and above resulted in the cash jackpot being shared amongst the players. We understand that some small prizes were won but never a big jackpot. Sadly the site closed down but it was a novel approach for online bingo and lotto.
Virtual World Direct
Sometimes lottery syndicates can turn out to be fraudulent! Syndication was a huge part of an online multi layer marketing business called Virtual World Direct. The company "promised members a better chance of winning the National Lottery and Euro Millions". In 2011, The High Court put eLottery syndicate provider out of business as they claimed that subscribers "were enticed to subscribe by misrepresentation". According to The Mirror "syndicate tickets purchased using the Virtual World Direct number selection method had no better chance of being selected for a jackpot prize than the same number of tickets purchased with numbers selected at random".
Useful Lottery Syndicate Links
