Malta publishes receipt lottery results in separate PDFs. We bring them together so you can see what won and check the sources.
An independent analysis of Malta’s published receipt lottery results. We checked 118 draw results covering 3,172 winning receipts and €7,185,843 in listed prizes.
49.2%of checked winning receipts were for purchases below €10
Of the 3,172 winning receipts we checked, 1,561 recorded a purchase below €10.
We do not have the purchase values of all receipts entered, so this does not tell us whether smaller purchases were more likely to win.
02 / SUPPORTING FINDING: REPEATED IDS
16.0% of winning IDs appear on more than one winning receipt.
Across the checked results, 363 of the 2,263 distinct winning IDs appear at least twice.
We replace each published ID number with a stable label, called a winning ID. Download files call this label an Archive ID. Receipts carrying the same published ID receive the same label.
Repeats can occur within one draw or across different draws. More entries can create more opportunities to win, but we do not know how many receipts each ID entered.
16.0%of winning IDs in the results appear on at least two winning receipts
Two or more receiptsOne receipt
Each dot represents about 1% of the distinct winning IDs in the checked results, rounded to the nearest whole dot.
03 / SUPPORTING FINDING: PRIZE TOTALS
10% of winning IDs account for 39.3% of listed prize money.
We ranked winning IDs by their combined listed prizes.We added up each ID’s prizes across the checked results and ranked the totals. The top group includes 227 of 2,263 winning IDs, after rounding up to include at least 10%.
Share of winning IDs10.0%
Their share of listed prize money39.3%
The 227 winning IDs with the largest combined prize totals account for €2,822,840 of the €7,185,843 listed.
This describes how listed prize money is distributed among winning IDs. Larger prizes and repeated wins can both contribute. We have no benchmark here for deciding whether this share is unusual.
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