When members purchase a HASSRA Lottery ticket/s they are effectively buying an entry into the draw, not a number. We have traditionally used an unique number as a means of linking each member to their monthly entry. Those numbers had no significance beyond that administrative purpose. Indeed, every entry has a statistically equal chance of winning (or losing) whether the number remains the same or is different each month. (this applies to the National Lottery as much as to the HASSRA Lottery).

With the introduction of HASSRA Live, we no longer need a fixed numerical identifier to link each member to their monthly entry into the draw. Instead the computer generates an unique one-time number each month, which cannot be used again. This ensures that the system could never erroneously use the same number more than once in the same draw. the National Lottery, by contrast, allows entrants to select their own numbers (so they can use the same or different numbers each week, as the prefer), which often results in winners having to share their prize with other winners who have coincidentally chose the same numbers. That can never happen with the HASSRA Lottery, but whatever number the HASSRA Lottery attaches to each ticket, the statistical chance of winning remains exactly the same.