You wonder, too, whether close examination of the Ting Tings' lyrics will reveal a landscape of brightly coloured 'Traffic Lights' and 'Fruit Machines' that never spit out any real jackpot prizes.
For December 2006 and June 2007, the rate will be 3.55% to reflect the fact that in these two months three extra £1m jackpot prizes will be on offer.
But last month sleep was far from anybody's mind as punters queued to put their money into SuperEnalotto, a numbers game that promised jackpot prizes of 17.9 billion lire ($10.7m) and 13.6 billion lire on two successive draws, by far the biggest ever offered in Italy.SuperEnalotto is enticing Italians who would never have dreamt of gambling to try their luck.
Jackpot prizes can make the game even more exciting, with some pubs offering $1,000 Australian dollars to the team that correctly answers a difficult set of trivia questions.
In 2014, it was fined £100,000 for miscalculating a National Lottery Lotto jackpot prize.
If none of our players match all six numbers on Saturday night, then the colossal jackpot prize will be shared among the winners in the next winning prize tier, potentially creating several multi-millionaires.
Weng now had to choose between two big prizes: the ₱100,000 that the host Willie Revillame was offering her, or whatever was inside the white wheel, which, according to the rules, could be a jackpot prize of ₱2,000,000 (US$45,000), a jackpot prize of ₱1,000,000 (US$22,500), a jackpot prize of ₱500,000 (US$11,250), a house and lot, or nothing at all (which would be signified by the numeral zero).
The games are all loosely based on the show, with players given the chance to spin the wheel to win a jackpot prize.
That huge check is the split share of the $648-million jackpot prize -- the second largest in the game's history.
However, after being prodded by the hosts to take the money instead, Weng decided to forgo the possible jackpot prize revealed in the white wheel and instead take home the ₱100,000 for this round, plus the ₱37,000 from the earlier round.
While the odds slim, there are many ways to win non-jackpot prizes in Powerball.
