Northwest German class lottery
The NKL Northwest German Class Lottery was founded in 1947. It was a joint company owned by some German countries. The public law institution had its seat in Hamburg . It was dissolved with effect from July 1, 2012. The universal legal successor of the NKL is the GKL Common Class Lottery of the Länder . The name NKL-Lottery will be retained as a brand and the range of games will continue unchanged. The tickets are sold through around 38 state-approved, independent lottery revenue points.
history
The NKL was founded in 1947 and was the state lottery of the German federal states of Berlin , Brandenburg , Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia , Saarland , Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein , with the Saarland 1960 and Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt joined in 1990. The first drawing took place on April 28, 1948.
Although the tickets are only sold from the sponsoring countries using the state-approved lottery revenue, there are no restrictions on place of residence for participants in the NKL lottery - in contrast to the “6 out of 49” lottery, for example . The winnings are set in a profit plan. The lottery is under state supervision. The representative countries jointly determine the playing conditions.
Procedure for an NKL lottery
The lottery starts on April 1st and October 1st. The process follows the rules of a class lottery . The game is played in 6 classes, each lasting one month. The total duration of a lottery is therefore half a year. However, the game participant is not forced to participate for the entire game time. However, since particularly high winnings are played out in the last game month / class and the chances of winning are higher than in the five previous months, it is necessary to play the full six months in order to achieve the maximum possible winning probability. The chances of success calculated by the NKL Lottery only ever result for the entire game period, ie for the full six months. There are cash draws every day. In addition, there is at least one prize draw and the jackpot raffle once a month.
By purchasing a ticket or a partial ticket with a seven-digit winning number printed on it, the participant receives his or her right to participate in the lottery. The lot is issued either in 1/16 division, 1/8 division, 1/4 division, 1/2 division or as a 1/1 lot (1/16 lot = € 10, 1/8 -Lot = 20 €, 1/4 lot = 40 €, 1/2 lot = 80 €, 1 lot 160 €). The daily draws always have prizes worth at least 1 million euros. The shares you own and whose ticket numbers are drawn determine the amount of the winnings (e.g. if 10,000 € fall on a ticket number and you have a 1/8 ticket, you get 1,250 €, with 1/16 = 625 €). Exceptions to this rule are extra income and non-cash profits. These are not shared. In order to determine the winner, a letter will also be drawn for each prize, which determines the ticket portion of the prize ticket.
The NKL lottery uses a random number generator to determine the winning numbers. 1 to 7-digit winning numbers are drawn.
Game addition
As part of the 70th anniversary of the NKL, an additional anniversary drawing will take place on September 30, 2018 at the 140th NKL lottery, in which 70 times 1 million euros will be raffled off. In addition to the usual participation in the four monthly main draws, there is also the option of taking part in an NKL Rentenjoker raffle for an additional charge. 50 10-year pensions between 1000 and 5000 euros are raffled off every month.
Payout ratio
At the z. B. the 135th NKL lottery running from October 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016, prizes totaling 1,430,690,000 euros were played out. A whole ticket cost 160 euros per class / month, or 960 euros for the entire lottery. The number of tickets was three million, so if they were fully sold, 2.88 billion euros in stakes were turned over. The payout ratio was around 49.68%. This was similar to the German lottery "6 out of 49" (payout ratio 50%). This does not include the service fees charged by the state-approved lottery takers (subcontractors who sell the tickets).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nkl.de/nkl_static_content/html/klassenlotterie/gewinne/gewinnplan_ziehungsordnung.html
- ^ NKL information
- ↑ https://www.lotterie.de/nkl/public/pdf/amtlicher-spielplan-nkl-lotterie.pdf
- ↑ https://www.guenther.de/fileadmin/Media/images/NKL/PDF_135._NKL/Gewinnplan_135_NKL.pdf
- ↑ With Günther's lottery receipt, this fee was 2.95 euros, with Naumann NKL it was 1.80 euros.