--- title: 'Why You Will Never Win the Russian Lotto' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=b__ov_fh1mo' video_id: 'b__ov_fh1mo' date: 2026-07-12 duration_sec: 921 --- # Why You Will Never Win the Russian Lotto > Source: [Why You Will Never Win the Russian Lotto](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b__ov_fh1mo) ## Summary This video analyzes the Russian Lotto lottery, exposing its extremely low probability of winning the jackpot (1 in a quintillion) and the psychological tricks used to encourage ticket purchases. It compares the odds to other lotteries and discusses the business model behind state-run lotteries. ### Key Points - **Lottery Winners and Sales** [00:02] — A couple from Tyumen won the New Year's prize; only three such wins in history. In 2023, a mechanic won a billion rubles; in 2020, Nadezhda Bartosh won a record sum. Over 43 billion rubles have been raffled. For the latest New Year's drawing, 31 million tickets were sold, down from 39 million in 2022 and 50 million in 2021. - **Psychological Marketing** [01:12] — Lotteries use aggressive advertising, similar to Coca-Cola's Santa Claus campaign, to associate buying tickets with holiday tradition. They exploit people's tendency to believe in luck during hard times. - **Rules and Probability** [02:50] — Each ticket has two fields with 15 numbers from 1 to 90. The host draws numbered kegs. To win the main prize, all 15 numbers on one field must match. The probability is 1 in a quintillion (10^18). - **Comparison with Other Lotteries** [04:36] — EuroMillions odds are 1 in 139 million; Powerball odds are 1 in 300 million. Russian Lotto's odds are astronomically worse, yet winners are not in Guinness World Records. - **State Lottery Structure** [07:04] — Russian Lotto is a state lottery, organized by the Ministry of Sports and Finance, but operated by private companies like Stoloto. 50-70% of ticket sales go to the prize fund, 10% to the federal budget, and the rest to operators. - **Scandal and Skepticism** [09:10] — In 2020, winner Nadezhda Bartosh was found to be a businesswoman with ties to Stoloto's founders, raising questions about fairness. The case was investigated but not proven. - **Why People Play** [10:19] — 77% of Russians have bought a lottery ticket. Three reasons: inability to grasp tiny probabilities, envy of winners, and dopamine from imagining winning. - **Lotteries as a Tax on Stupidity** [13:37] — Lotteries use the same psychological hooks as casinos. The video argues that true wealth comes from hard work, not luck, and sudden windfalls often lead to the 'curse of the lottery.' ### Conclusion The Russian Lotto lottery offers extremely slim chances of winning, yet aggressive marketing and psychological manipulation drive ticket sales. The video warns against the illusion of easy wealth and encourages viewers to pursue financial goals through effort rather than gambling. ## Transcript Russian Lotto New Year's lottery on January 1, 2024. Four months ago, a couple from Tyumen won the prize. There have only been three such wins in the history of the show. In the show. In 2023, a mechanic from Tyumen took home a billion, and in 2020, at that time, a resident of the Moscow region, Nadezhda Bartosh, received the record sum. These lucky winners cannot even imagine how lucky they are. According to Russian Lotto itself, Russian Lotto itself, more than 43 billion rubles have been raffled off. The lottery website proudly displays the winners. Here is the lucky winner who won 6 million rubles, here is someone with a brand new apartment, and one gets the feeling: Why not me and you are not alone in the latest New Year's drawing from Russian Lotto. The desire to get the coveted billion led to the purchase of almost 31 million lottery tickets, and this is not a record. Last year, for the New Year's drawing alone, Russians bought 39 million tickets. And in 2021, 50 interesting In more difficult times, people tend to believe in lotteries more readily. Yes, the organizers of Russian Lotto claim that buying a lottery ticket is already becoming a New Year's tradition for Russians. But in fact, this is a clever advertising ploy, and they are simply clever advertising ploy, and they are simply trying to convince us of this. 100 years ago, the company wanted to increase sales of its soda in the winter, and began using the image of St. Nicholas, who gives gifts to children at Christmas. In 1931, at the request of Coca-Cola, artist Heden Sun came up with a new image of Santa Claus. It was a kind old man who not only gave gifts to children but also didn't forget to drink Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola carried out a very loud marketing campaign, and millions of people associate the New Year holidays with sweet soda. This technique increased sales several times. But Coca-Cola left Russia, and Russian Lotto remained. Aggressive advertising of the lottery with pop stars is trying to enter the very door of the New Year's holiday and very door of the New Year's holiday and imposes on us that buying a ticket for mom or wife for New Year is an obligatory part of the holiday. Why do Russians They bought and are buying and will continue to buy lottery tickets. How honest are they with the participants of the Russian Lotto lottery? And why will you never win in the Russian Lotto? General Shalom, you are on the channel, the habit of multiplying. My name is Rami Zaytsman, let's go multiplying. My name is Rami Zaytsman, let's go analyze the Russian lotto to understand. And how realistic is it to win that very coveted billion in the Russian Lotto lottery? Let's get a little familiar with the casino rules in the Russian Lotto ticket. Two playing fields in each with 15 numbers in the range from one to 90. The combinations of numbers in the tickets are already pre-formed by the office. Therefore, all that remains for us is to choose the ticket we like at the drawing itself, takes out kegs with numbers from a bag one by one. If our ticket has a number with the keg number, we mark it. The main prize is won. In which ticket all 15 numbers on one of the two fields match? It seems everything is just like a shell game at the station. However, let's turn on for a minute. Let's do some the probability of winning according to these rules? Let's imagine that you and I have the same winning ticket. The probability that the first number drawn by the presenter will match ours is 90/15. The probability that the second number will match our number in the field is already 89/14. In the barrel of numbers, there is one less in the field. What is the same scheme for calculating the probability that the third number will match? 88/13. And so on. If we multiply all the probabilities up to the thirtieth number, at the end of the calculations, we get the number 3.43 to the power of 10. And don't forget that get that the probability that you and I got the winning ticket is 1/10 to the power of 10. That is, the probability of winning the Russian Lotto lottery. A billion is one divided by a quintillion. A quintillion. So that you understand this figure, there is 133 billion cubic meters of water on our entire globe. this figure, there is 133 billion cubic meters of water on our entire globe. If you add up all the If you add up all the rubles, yuan, and dollars, convert them. The rubles, yuan, and dollars, convert them. The same amount of dollars would be about 83 trillion dollars. The distance between the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, is 39 trillion kime, and this number is still a trillion times less than the chance of winning the Russian Lotto. Let's compare it with the winning the Russian Lotto. Let's compare it with the most popular lottery in Europe, the most popular lottery in Europe, the EUR, the chance of winning is 139 million in the American Power B. The probability of winning is also 1 in 300 million. It's extremely small, but much fairer than a quintillion Russian Lotto. With such odds, the winners of the 2023 and 24 should get into the Guinness Book of Records, but we don't see them there. The problem is that people are given an unrealistic percentage for winning. It would be much more interesting if the chances of winning were much higher, even if the winnings were much smaller. There is such a lottery, it's called meme coins. 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Since 2014, in Russia, only state bodies are the organizers of all legal lotteries, and they are subordinate to the Federal Government. The lottery is organized by the Ministry of Sports and Finance. However, the agencies themselves do not organize the draws, but do this with a company and they are called operators. And there are only three of them in Russia: JSC, the main sports only three of them in Russia: JSC, the main sports lottery, LLC Sports Lottery and LLC Sportloto. But the distribution of the lottery is handled by only One company, 100 Lotto Russian Lotto, is one of the branches of many lotteries under the auspices of 100 Lotto. Its owner is a joint-stock company, a technology company called Center. Despite this, many older people still have memories of the Soviet Union's lotteries in their heads, and many still hold the misconception that the Russian Lotto lottery is a state lottery. It's like with Sberbank. Grandmothers still trust Sberbank as a savings bank. In accordance with the Federal Law on Lotteries, money is distributed as follows: 50-70 rubles. From the proceeds from ticket sales, it goes to the draft to the draft fund and the prize fund. That is, this is the same billion, 10% of the federal budget. The remaining funds are kept by the organizer for infrastructure development and operating expenses. It turns out that the amount of the cash prize depends on player contributions, that is, the money with which you bought tickets. The state. Or do lottery operators themselves not invest money in the draw? The last time, on New Year's, Russians threw about 4 billion rubles into the pot. Russians threw about 4 billion rubles into the pot. And what a good idea, you shout from all irons, a billion. People are chipping in a hundred each, 10% of the are chipping in a hundred each, 10% of the bucks go to the winners, and the rest is mine, I can guess, bro. Who's making a billion on this lottery? Gosloto isn't without its scandal in 2020. without its scandal in 2020. modest pensioner. However, it later turned out that Nadezhda Bartosh is the founder of the Tsarsky Osetr company, and her son, Alexei, owns a fish farm near Tver. A connection was even found between Bartosh and the founders of the Stoloto lottery. Armen Sargsyan was even sent an official request to the Federal Tax Service. But the request could just as easily have been sent to the International Tax Service. After all, the Tax Service oversees the lottery. It receives data on every lottery ticket sold from every seller's cash register. That's why you give your phone number at the checkout when buying a ticket. The case with Bartosh's connection with Sargsyan was recognized as indirect activity. Lato began to be monitored by supervisory authorities practically around the clock. The case was hushed up. There's a little garden left, but the other lottery winners didn't raise any such agency Ramir. At least 77% of Russians have bought a lottery ticket at least once. According to the study, 6% of Russians have been playing for a long time. Write in the comments if you're one of those 77% or maybe you have a story related to Russian Lotto. Tell us in the comments. We'll been curious. Why do all these people continue to play the lottery? Don't they continue to play the lottery? Don't they understand what it's like? Is it really possible to understand what it's like? Is it really possible to just shout "a billion" on TV and people will go buy tickets? You can just wave your hand at all this. You can say that lottery tickets are a tax on stupidity, but everything is more complicated than it might seem. Marketers don't believe that there is a connection between buying lottery connection between buying lottery tickets and IQ level. According to marketers, they put pressure on the quality of people that are in each of us. According to their research, there are three reasons why people play the lottery: the first is Oh, my God, a loan, and no one gives a damn about your contio There are millions of billions. I see the main thing, people are different, you are. Well, I'll be lucky. Yes, the probability of winning is so insignificant that it has no meaning for us in everyday life with such huge numbers. We have never encountered this, so we simply cannot visualize or understand it, not because we are stupid. Because that's how our pot is designed. The second reason why people play the lottery is envy. Marketers are happy to show us the lives of those who turned out to be luckier than us. By the way, all sorts of Ayaz and Blinovsky and other sellers of successful success use this same trick. They buy houses on Rublevka, sports cars buy houses on Rublevka, sports cars broadcast, I was able to. And you will succeed. The winners in Russian Lotto are often ordinary people who were just lucky, and marketers know how photographs of happy rich people influence other players. Advertising convinces us that anyone can end up in their place, can end up in their place, even I, you just need to buy a ticket for 150 rubles, believe in chance and keep playing. The third reason is the dopamine trap, this is our reptilian brain. The fact is that fantasy in millions for our brain is almost the same as possession. Thoughts of winning affect roughly the same areas of the brain as winning itself. You don't have to have millions to feel like a millionaire. Say, if a person buys a ticket, they're already starting to think about what to do with the winnings, and it gives them a thrill. Casinos that show huge winnings on multi-million dollar jackpots are practically zero, but buying a piece of paper with a number on it for 150 rubles gives such hope, but only until the moment of the draw. But it's no big deal. Well, if you lose, so what? Buy another lose, so what? Buy another one. understandably negative. There are more interesting examples in the world. IQ taxes are just for insurance premiums. What infuriates me is that lotteries use the same psychological hooks as casinos and bookmakers. Yes, I put lotteries on par with one-armed bandits. The state protects us from casinos, from The state protects us from casinos, from sports betting, and from binary options. However, they advertise the cherished dream of every cherished dream of every Russian on all Internet channels: to get out of the swamp, to get the Russian on all Internet channels: to get out of the swamp, to get the coveted billion, and There's a joke about not a single billionaire remembering their first billion, but they clearly remember their first million. You can ask me, Rami, what's more important: a dream or a goal about the first million. Elim Milne. I'll answer: the path to that million is that hard work. Sleepless nights. Fuckups. People you meet along the way. That's what's priceless. Lotteries are playing with us. Let's dream of wealth. They show us the easy way to it. Just buy a ticket. You can find tons of stories online. About how a sudden windfall of money made people even richer. It's called the Curse. However, only people who go step by step toward their first financial goals their first financial goals can be called truly rich. The can be called truly rich. The desire for wealth. Ramil