South German class lottery
The South German Class Lottery ( SKL for short ) was founded in 1947 as the South German Class Lottery in the US zone and was the state lottery of the German states of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate and, since 1990, of Saxony and Thuringia . The SKL Lottery was an institution under public law in the aforementioned countries and had its seat in Munich . It was dissolved with effect from July 1, 2012. The universal legal successor of the SKL is the GKL Common Class Lottery of the Länder .
The name SKL Lottery will be retained as a brand and the game offerings will continue unchanged.
history
The class lottery emerged from the lottery . In the 16th and 17th centuries, lotteries were held for the poor in the country and in order to rebuild the country after wars without burdening the citizens with additional taxes. So that the authorities could secure the income for charitable institutions for a certain period of time, several draws were held within a lottery, for which the stake had to be made again; from this the classes emerged. Otherwise, the tickets in a lottery could only be sold after a lottery license had been obtained. A lottery approval took several years; there were also further delays in a lottery event due to the sale of the tickets. The ticket sellers marched through the country on foot, which also took several years, as a drawing date was only set and published after all tickets had been sold.
The SKL lottery started on September 10, 1947 with a total prize of 7,000,000 Reichsmarks with 140,000 tickets and a maximum prize of 250,000 Reichsmarks . At the beginning it was run in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate , which were occupied by the USA, under the name "South German class lottery of the US zone". At that time there were only three different classes with one draw each. The current game system of the SKL Lottery was not established until 1961. While the draws were initially monthly, from 1965 onwards weekly drawings were made.
Procedure for an SKL lottery
Although the tickets are only sold from the state-approved lottery revenue, there are no restrictions on place of residence for participants in the SKL 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 parliaments of the individual countries determine the profit conditions and distribution quotas. In the SKL lottery, these are at least 50%.
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. The lottery starts on June 1st and December 1st. Daily draws take place in each class, with the maximum prize of 16 million euros only being drawn in 6th class.
By purchasing a ticket or a partial ticket with a printed ticket number, the player receives his / her right to participate in the game. The different prize categories determine the amount of the payout in advance. The SKL Lottery determines the winning numbers at random. 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5- or 7-digit winning numbers are drawn. If the final digits (final digit lottery) of your own ticket or the complete ticket numbers match the winning numbers drawn, then the respective player has won.
Payout ratio
For example, the 137th South German Class Lottery, which started on June 1, 2015, paid out a total of 1,289,362,000 euros. The total number of tickets on offer is three million, with a whole ticket costing 150 euros for each of the six classes, i.e. a total of 900 euros for the entire lottery. If all the tickets are sold, then 2,510,316,000 euros will be turned over in stakes. The payout quota , calculated as the total winnings divided by the total stakes, is then 51.36% and thus similar to the German lottery "6 out of 49" (payout quota 50%) or the NKL lottery . This does not include the service fees charged by the lottery takers (subcontractors who sell the tickets).
See also
literature
- Sabine Schönbein: The millionaire game with tradition - the history of the class lottery . Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-8779-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the SKL. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.skl.de/fwd?to=2_lot_glo_q.jsp
- ↑ https://www.skl.de/downloads/amt_spielplan_137.pdf , accessed on April 26, 2017