Show me the money! (thedailydraw.com)

Member Name: MichaelR

Product:	thedailydraw.com
Date:	20/02/01 (27 review reads)
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Advantages: Generous prizes.

Disadvantages: Number range from 1-64.

Yep, it’s another one of those crazy online lottery sites!

You know the deal by now, you pick your numbers, click on a banner, and check your e-mail every evening to see if you’ve won a million pounds. (Or a more modest prize)

This site is actually run by a direct marketing company (i.e. spammers, who I have a personal hatred of, but if they’re going to give me £1,000,000…) but I have to say that I am yet to receive any junk mail from them. Perhaps that’s because I didn’t tell them that I was interested in anything when I registered!

When you register to play, you have to give all your usual details - name, address, phone number etc and you are also supposed to place a tick in the box next to all the subjects that interest you. This information is then supposed to be used in order to send you e-mails about “products that may interest you” and is in line with the company’s policy of “eradicating irrelevant junk mail”. It is also supposed to be used to show banners for sites that are more likely to interest you every time that you go to the site to play.

To the game then…

The site does look rather bland when compared to the luverly looking bananalotto site, and there is no cookie feature for automatic login every time you go back to play. You have to supply your registered e-mail address and password every time you want to play.

Like bananalotto, there is only one chance to win every day. The prizes are better than those at bananalotto, but the chances of winning are horrendous – because instead of picking numbers between 1 and 49, you have to pick numbers between 1 and 64. (Yes 64!)

There’s also no option to save your favourite numbers, so you either have to remember them, or if, like me, you have a head like a sieve then you’ll just have to write them down somewhere. I play the same numbers on thedailydraw.com as I
play on bananalotto though, so it’s not that much of a problem.

As I said before, the prizes are better. You don’t win anything for three numbers though – better than uproarlotto then, (Which I will write an opinion on as soon as it is added.) but worse than bananalotto.

The prize payout is as follows:

4 Numbers - £25
5 Numbers - £5,000
6 Numbers - £1,000,000

Oh yes, that’s right – almost forgot to mention – you only have to choose six numbers on thedailydraw.com, as opposed to the six + banana number of bananalotto or seven of uproarlotto, so maybe that does even the odds out a bit. I can’t be bothered to do the math, so you can work out for yourself if you like whether 64C6 works out better than 49C7.
It costs nothing to play and is very quick and easy to enter, so you might as well play. As with all these things, you really have got nothing to lose, and it takes so little time and energy for a chance to win a cash prize – no matter how wild the odds might be.

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