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Gambling is a game of luck and uncertainty, which involves placing a bet, with all the other players agreeing to put their possessions at stake, in exchange for a chance to win the booty. The players can put up anything valuable as stake, such as cash, agricultural lands, or any precious gems that they may have at the moment. Ultimately, the winner sweeps the booty that was put at stake by the rest of the players, without compensating them for what they lost.

Casinos, card games, slot machines, horse racing, poker, and bingo are some of the most popular forms of gambling. In fact, lottery is one of the most popular forms of gambling, preferred by a middle-class person, which requires the participant to buy a lottery ticket of his choice and wait until the lot is made and the winner is declared. Lotteries offer varying amounts of prize money or gift item that is pre-decided and mentioned on the lottery ticket.

In many parts of the world, especially in the Islamic nations, gambling is considered to be a big taboo or sin and is therefore considered as immoral. Therefore, in Islam, gambling is forbidden or ‘haram’. But irrespective of such strict restrictions, gambling and lotteries are continuing to gain a lot of popularity in many parts of the world.

Although gambling is considered to be a sin by Islam, many other nations in the world patronize gambling and lotteries. In fact, gambling is considered to be a highly fun-filled and entertaining experience, that is quite important from the tourism perspective and draws huge crowds from across the globe, as is seen in the case of the casinos in Las vegas. Several nations of the world including Spain, France, Canada, Belgium, U.K, and even U.S are therefore seen encouraging gambling and the proceeding from the lotteries and casinos are donated for the development of public infrastructure.

Many people, however, prefer to ignore lotteries because they are of the opinion that lotteries are nothing but “taxes levied on stupidity”. They feel so because the chances to win the lottery is very low when compared to the other forms of gambling and inspite of knowing this fact, uncountable people still prefer to buy a lottery ticket and try their luck. Hardly do they know the fact that their money fills up the government’s public utility funds, just as the taxes paid by us fill in the government’s treasuries, and therefore, they prefer to refer to lotteries as ‘tax on stupidity’.

It has been reported from many parts of the world that people are taking up gambling not as a means of entertainment, but as a serious way of generating income for themselves. This obsession to gamble has taken a far more ugly shape and many individuals are reported to be suffering from compulsive gambling, which is a psychological disorder, wherein the patient cannot overcome the desire to continue gambling, although he may have incurred huge loss because of it.

Playing gambling at the cost of someone’s hard earned money or possessions is absolutely unethical. Instead, lottery and gambling can be played purely for fun, using less valuable gifts and token amounts as this will not harm anyone and everyone can enjoy the game irrespective of whet

Graham McKenzie is the content coordinator for a South African UK Lottery Ticket website, where you can buy tickets to play the UK lottery and participate in the Euro millions draw.

Since the UK Lottery was established it has made millionaires out of over eight million individuals. But what is that old saying that goes with any gambling? How are you going to win if you never play? In November of 1994 the UK Lottery was established. Over 750,000 players win prizes on a weekly basis.

UK Lottery Biggest Win In June 1995 the largest individual ticket win took place in UK Lottery history. The ticket was worth 22,590,829 Pounds. The prize was shared by two Brighton residents, Paul Maddison and Mark Gardiner. A winners right to anonymity wasn’t put into effect until December of 94. This option was put on the table after the identity of a 17.44 million Pounds winner from Blackburn was released to the media. This winner was a very shy and reserved Asian factory. Even though he kept to himself,the leak made it real easy for the media to track him down.

The biggest jackpot winner for the National UK Lottery was a ticket that was shared by three holders back in January 1996. The Irish lottery saw the biggest individual European lottery winner with a woman from Limerick, the El Gordo lottery created a whole town of winners in Spain.

Even though all of these jackpots are an enormous amount of money that would change most peoples lives, the biggest and the brightest winning jackpot occurred right here in the United States when a Nebraska man working at a meat packing plant won 365 Million dollar lottery jackpot. This immigrant worker laid low and caused a major stir when the 365 million dollar winning jackpot was allowed to sit and not be claimed right away.

Unclaimed Prizes and Sports of The National Lottery This might be hard to believe, but there are many National Lottery winning tickets that go unclaimed. Get out there and get your money people. Between march and July 2006, there was a total of 5,313,852.50 Pounds of unclaimed prizes. If these ticket holders to hurry up, by the time the calender hits 2007, all this prize money will be relinquished. This money will be given to charities by the National Lottery.

Most Recent Unclaimed Prizes. The two most recent unclaimed prizes were worth 250,000 Pounds. One was for a Euro Million draw and the other was for a Thunder ball draw. Easily the most astonishing unclaimed prizes were both for 1,666,667 Pounds, and were both bought on April 29 2006. What could be so amazing, that it would keep toe people from checking their tickets and claiming their prizes? One was located in Warwickshire and the other in Glasgow. I’m pretty sure it was the fact that Football star Wayne Rooney suffered a broken bone just six weeks before the opening match of the World Cup.

Biggest National Lottery Unclaimed Prize In August of 2006, the help of Don cater Twin Crier was requested to help jog the memory of the winner of a 9,476,995 Pounds ticket. The prize was still unclaimed a month alter. The significance of the winning date, is that it was the same date London won the rights to host the 2012 Olympics. It must have been another sports fan.

Graham McKenzie is the content coordinator for a South African UK Lottery website, where you can buy tickets to play the UK lottery and participate in the Euro millions draw.