Whois & Analysis for thelotter.com

A progressive jackpot is a jackpot (a gambling grand prize or payout) which increases each time the game is played but the jackpot is not won.

When the progressive jackpot is won, the jackpot for the next play is reset to a predetermined value, and resumes increasing under the same rule.

A lottery is a form of legalized government gambling that involves the drawing of numbers for a prize.

Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery.

It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments; the most common regulation is prohibition of sale to minors.

Though lotteries were common in the United States and some other countries during the 19th century, by the beginning of the 20th century, most forms of gambling, including lotteries and sweepstakes, were illegal in the U.S. and most of Europe as well as many other countries.

This remained so until well after World War II.

In the 1960s casinos and lotteries began to re-appear throughout the world as a means for governments to raise revenue without raising taxes.

A prize is an award to be given to a person, a group of people, or organization to recognise and reward actions or achievements.

Official prizes often involve monetary rewards as well as the fame that comes with them.

Some prizes are also associated with extravagant awarding ceremonies, such as the Academy Awards.

Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.

A random sequence of events, symbols or steps has no and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination.

Individual random events are by definition unpredictable, but in many cases the frequency of different outcomes over a large number of events (or "trials") is predictable.

For example, when throwing two dice, the outcome of any particular roll is unpredictable, but a sum of 7 will occur twice as often as 4.

In this view, randomness is a measure of uncertainty of an outcome, rather than haphazardness, and applies to concepts of chance, probability, and information entropy.

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for , and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements.

However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).