Lightning Lotto

Evolution has launched their brand-new addition to the Lightning family called Lightning Lotto Live. This new multiplier-based game continues the trend started from Lightning Roulette. If you’re wondering how they managed to introduce this extra feature to Lotto, it’s actually quite simple. Multipliers are guaranteed each round as two of the 25 numbers from the main drum become lightning numbers.

If any player in the multiplayer lobby has drawn one or both of these two lightning numbers and they have a winning ticket. Well, their winnings will be boosted by the multiplier value. In addition, Evolution has also introduced a second drum called the Powerball drum with 10 numbers. It boosts the player’s chances of drawing numbers from 1 to 10. Players can win up to 100,000x the bet in the right circumstances with a decent 96.08% RTP. Let us dive further into this Lightning Lotto review and analyze the gameplay round by round.

To start of, as soon as you enter the flashy gold-black Lightning Lotto studio, you will be greeted by the live dealer and can begin betting. Players can purchase tickets right away that have 6 numbers on them. At the beginning of the round, two drum machines spin:

• Regular Drum – Contains numbers from 1 to 25
• Powerball Drum – Contains numbers from 1 to 10

Your tickets contain 5 numbers from 1 to 25 and the sixth number is from 1 to 10 for the powerball machine. As the drums finish spinning they will reveal 5 balls from the regular and 1 from the powerball drum.

If at least 3 drawn balls match the numbers on your ticket, you win a payout. The more winning numbers match the drawn balls, the higher the payout. The Powerball drum and its balls essentially increase your chances of drawing numbers from 1 to 10.

That is pretty much it for the basic gameplay. Do not forget to use the live chat to interact with your fellow players or the dealer. Furthermore, the settings menu allows you to adjust video, audio and other miscellaneous settings.

Before you start drawing balls you can decide how many tickets you want to purchase. Up to 500 tickets can be bought per round but tracking them is not chaotic. The interface automatically sorts out winning combinations and displays the winning tickets at the top.

Furthermore, there are 4 buttons for purchasing tickets for 1, 5, 10 and 100 tickets with a click. In this manner, you can easily customize how many chances you have for each betting round.

Payouts vary based on how many numbers you match on the ticket:

• 6 numbers – 4,999 – 99,999: 1
• 5 numbers – 499 – 9,999: 1
• 4 numbers – 49 – 999:1
• 3 numbers – 1 – 39:1

As you can see the maximum payout is 100,000x the bet and it comes with a 96.08% RTP value which is pretty decent for lotto games. The game is highly volatile due to the random nature of each result.

The main extra feature of the game are the Lightning multipliers. Reach round, as the regular drum spins, two numbers between 1 to 25 are designated as Lightning numbers. Then, each ticket that contains at least one of these two numbers becomes a Lightning ticket.

Every Lightning ticket that players hold is assigned a random multiplier between x2 and x10. They are different for each ticket so two tickets with the same Lighting number might have different values.

If you then have a winning Lightning ticket with at least 3 matching numbers, your winnings are boosted by the multiplier’s value. If you happen to have two Lightning numbers, their multipliers are combined for a massive win.

This makes purchasing multiple tickets, at least 5 to 10, a generally good idea.