Friday, April 21, 2006

The New Monday Charities Lottery in the UK

A new lottery has now arrived in the UK. The first draw is set to take place on 8th May 2006.

monday - The Charities Lottery is being launched by Chariot, a company set up in order to provide a 'fairer' lottery, that also pays more to charity. The UK National Lottery supports many good causes, but has received much criticism for some donations that didn't meet with the popular media idea of 'a good cause'.

The new game will be a Monday night draw, hence the games name... 'monday'. The jackpot will be capped at £200,000, but there will be no rollovers because there will be a guaranteed winner every week. If no-one matches 6 balls to win the jackpot, then the person nearest to winning will get the jackpot!

The type of game hasn't been announced, but Chariot say the jackpot odds will be better than for the UK Lotto.

Charity is a big focus of the game, and charities will received 30p for every £1 spent.

monday is to be an online only game, available from www.playmonday.com

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