Fairness

How a draw is run, from entries closing to the money arriving

Four steps, on a fixed clock, with nobody typing anything. Here is each one and what it leaves behind.

10:41 UTC: entries close

Thirty minutes before the draw, the draw stops accepting tickets. Everything bought up to that second is in; nothing after it is. The closing time is the same every day and does not move for daylight saving, because the whole schedule runs on Coordinated Universal Time rather than anybody’s local clock.

11:11 UTC: the draw

The system draws the 48 numbers itself and records them against that draw: 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize, then 10 Special, 10 Consolation and 25 Luck By Chance. No number appears twice in one draw. Nobody types them in and nobody can edit them afterwards — the result belongs to the draw from the moment it exists.

Settlement: who won, and what they are owed

Settlement runs as a fixed sequence of steps, each one recorded as it finishes. The book is photographed as it stood at close, every ticket is matched against the 48 numbers, each winning ticket is priced at its own tier, and the money is credited to the winners’ wallets. A step that fails stops the sequence rather than half-paying a draw, and the same draw can be picked up again exactly where it stopped.

Nothing to claim

Winnings arrive in your fourdigits Wallet as the draw settles. There is no claim form, no deadline and no ticket to hand in. You are told in the app, and the result appears on the public board and on the draw’s own page, where anyone can read all 48 numbers without an account.

What is left behind

Every draw keeps its own record: the numbers, the time, the totals staked and paid, and the steps settlement went through. The results archive holds every draw since the first one, and any number can be searched across all of them.

Play the next draw

One draw a day at 11:11 UTC. Entries close 30 minutes before.

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