Will you go bananas?!? (bananalotto.co.uk)

Member Name: Technical Tobes

Product:	bananalotto.co.uk
Date:	08/05/01 (75 review reads)
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Advantages: It's free, Easy to play, You could win cash!

Disadvantages: Won't win much, Steep odds

Go bananas!

Wanna win the lottery? Don’t wanna pay for the chance?
Yes, well you need to play bananalotto – but don’t expect to get rich!

Before I go any further, you’ll probably wanna know how much you could win (thought so)...

◦◊◦ ● You could win anything from £5 to £1,000,000! ● ◦◊◦


Okay, now in a bit more detail...



◦◊◦ How do you play? ◦◊◦
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Playing bananalotto is simple, but first you will have to sign up for a user ID. This is pretty painless and only takes a minute or two. You will need to enter you name, address and a valid email address. There are a few other things they ask for (interests etc for example) but these can be, and it’s best to, just ignore them. In particular, I would recommend you decline the option to join the ‘banana club’ as this basically signs you up to junk email! These precautions observed and you will receive no junk email at all, only confirmations and results.

There are a few other things to bear in mind when joining...
- You’ll need to be 18 or over!
- A maximum of 3 people per postal address can sign up.
- You must be resident in the UK (or any country where the game is open).

Now you’ve signed up you are ready to login!
You have the option for the bananalotto site to remember your user ID and password which is very handy as you can then just click and play rather than having to logon each time. Do be careful however, if you are using a public or shared computer as your details will then be available for anyone to see!

Logged in, cool, now it’s time to play, here’s the deal...

Just like the national lottery you choose 6 different numbers from 1 to 49 and a banana number (similar to the bonus ball).
Compare
d to other lottery sites, bananalotto makes this simple as you have the ability to save your favourite ‘lucky’ numbers and use them each time, or, if you prefer, to use random number by simply clicking the ‘use random numbers’ button – simple!

After selecting your 6 numbers and a banana number, you then click on one of 3 adverts on the right hand side of the screen (I guess this is where they get the funding from). Upon doing this a little window opens stating it’s entering you into the draw and the main window redirects to the site of the advert.

● TIP: Course, you can get away with just closing the main window straight away, never looking at the advertised site at all – this does not affect your chances (trust me).

After a short while you can then close the other popup window too and within seconds (or whenever you next check your email), you will have a confirmation email come through.

A draw takes place everyday (shortly after 5:30pm) so you can have a chance a day - bargain!



◦◊◦ How do I win, how much & when do I get it? ◦◊◦
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Well, no prizes for guessing that you win by choosing the correct numbers!!! More specifically however...

6 numbers + banana number = £1,000,000
6 numbers = £100,000
5 numbers = £50
4 numbers = £5

Until not so many months ago, you could also get 50p for matching 3 numbers. But I doubt you’ll be too upset at missing out on that!

As you can see, the prizes are either a lot or smeg all!
You will notice however, that the chances of winning the £1,000,000 are extremely remote, effectively you have to match 7 numbers, specifically nominating the banana number. This may explain why nobody has yet won £1,000,000.
In fact winning the £100,000 is the equivalent of winning the national lottery jackpot (in t
he odds sense anyway).

Each month bananalotto.co.uk sends out around 1,000 cheques for £5 and about a dozen for £50. Someone wins the £100,000 every few months although all these figures will go up as more people join and play.

Oh, and the top two prizes are shared prizes, so should more than 1 person match 6 or more numbers (as if!), the prize is split between them.

If you do win, expect to get your cheque within a month – unless you’ve gone and got yourself £100,000 or even the £1m. If you do win the big prizes, you be informed by telephone and follow up letter, you will also have to meet up with bananalotto, get your photo taken etc etc, all mandatory to get ya cash! Oh and they won’t pay your travelling expenses etc for these compulsory press conferences etc. Not that you’d care, but a bit mean I thought!
It is also voluntarily compulsory (!) to inform me if you have won the £1m where upon I will become your best ever friend!



◦◊◦ Conclusion – is it worth it? ◦◊◦
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Well, it’s free so why not? The chances of winning any amount of money is quite remote, even winning £50 is pretty unlikely but then it is free to play. It’s just a case of, can you be bothered?!?

I play everyday (well 95% of the time) and have won a total of 3 times. 2 of these were for 50p (the other being £5) some month’s back, so this rate is (and has) dropped now the 50p prize has been withdrawn.
It really does not take anytime at all to play, just 4 clicks should do it!
The site is often quite slow to load, however you don’t need to wait for it to load completely to play once you know where the buttons are located.

And of course, there is that remote chance that you could grab yourself £100k or even £1m, so why not?



That’s it then, don’t forget t
o rate, and any comments welcomed!
Cheers, until next time, Tobes

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