With $40 million up for grabs, Lotto was a major topic of conversation last week but it made me wonder how it is any different from pokies.
I'm not a Lotto fan. I can't bring myself to spend $15 or more on a ticket which will probably get me nothing.
I grudgingly put a few dollars into an office ticket once but that was my sole foray into Lotto.
I was gobsmacked to read there were more than 2.7 million tickets entered into Saturday's draw and at the busiest point on Saturday Lotto outlets were selling more than 3000 tickets a minute. Lotto sales for the week were just under $60 million, with Saturday's draw accounting for $40 million of that.
Those figures seem crazy to me considering there are fewer than five million people in New Zealand.