Lotto Land
Lotto Land is where hobos go to participate in other hobo's lotteries to win Cash, Points, Tokens, and/or Donator Packs. You can create and manage your own lotto from here as well.
The Lobby
You can purchase tickets up to the lotto host's limit up to a maximum of 1000 tickets. Tickets are bought using Tokens, Points, or Cash.
- You cannot buy tickets to your own lotto.
- You may also donate Tokens, Points, Cash, and/or Donator Packs to any lotto, including your own.
- You can sort the lotto lists by: the lotto's name, host's name, time left, price, tickets sold, and the current pot
- You can search for a lotto hosted by a specific hobo by searching their ID #
Open Lottos
- Lists all the active lottos
Completed Lottos
- Lists all the completed lottos, up to 30 days
View Your Lotto
- Brings you to your own lotto (if applicable)
View Your Lotto Participation Page
- Lists all the lottos you are currently holding tickets for;
- Lists your lotto history;
- Includes tickets you have bought, your donations to any lotto, lottos you have won, and results from your completed lottos.
View Gang Members Lottos
- Lists all the current and completed (up to 30 days) lottos of your current gang's members
Individual Lotto Pages
Name of the lotto
- The name given to the lotto by the host
Host's description of the lotto
- A description of the lotto which may include: reason for the lotto, goal of the lotto, a story, an image or anything else the host chooses
- Regular hobo-tml may be used here
Host's Name and ID.
- Lets you see who created the lotto
House's cut.
- Percentage of the ticket's price that the host receives
Gang's cut.
- Percentage of the ticket's price that the host's gang receives
Ticket price.
Number of winners.
- If there is more than one winner, it indicates the percentage each winner will receive
Current jackpot.
- Amount the winner(s) shall receive
Time left in the lotto.
- Maximum time is 7 days, with the exception of specialty lottos. (Ex: Murph's Holiday Lotto and Doody's Multi Millions Lotto)
- Donations will be disabled with less than 24 hours left in the lotto.
- Purchasing tickets will be disabled with less than 5 minutes in the lotto.
Purchasing Tickets.
- Maximum 1000 tickets
- If it is a cash lotto, you must have money on hand to buy
Amount of tickets held by yourself.
Donating to the lotto.
- You may donate to any lotto with tokens, points, DP's or cash (must have cash on hand)
Maximum amount of tickets one can buy.
- Up to 1000
How many hobos are participating and total amount of tickets sold.
List of lotto's history.
- Including who has purchased tickets to, donated to, edited and created the lotto
View who has bought tickets to this lotto.
- Lists in descending order how many tickets total each participant has bought
View who has donated to this lotto.
- Lists who has donated (and the amount) to this lotto, sorted by most recent to least recent
Create A Lotto
Here you can create your own lotto. You are only allowed one lotto at a time.
Lottery Name
- Give your lottery an eye catching name
- You can edit the lotto's name after it has been created
Lottery Type
- Assigns what currency the tickets are in
- Choose between Cash, Points, or Tokens
- Set once the lotto has been created
Price Per Ticket
- Numerical value for how much each ticket will cost for the previously chosen Lottery Type
- Minimum of $100, 10 Tokens, or 1 point for each ticket
- Set once the lotto has been created
Days Until Drawing
- How many days the lotto will run
- The day advances at 1:05 PM HoboWars time.
- Set once the lotto has been created
Max Tickets
- The amount of tickets each hobo can buy for the lotto
- Minimum 1, Maximum 1000
- Set once the lotto has been created
House Cut
- The profit amount from ticket sales that goes to the host
- Taxed 10%
- When combined with the Gang Cut, cannot exceed 100%
- Set once the lotto has been created
Number of Winners
- How many winners of the lotto there will be
- Choose from 1-5 winners
- You can assign a % amount for each winner
- The total % must equal 100%
- Set once the lotto has been created
Description
- A description of the lotto, which may include: reason for the lotto, goal of the lotto, a story, an image or anything else the host wishes to add
- Regular HB-TML may be used here
- Can be edited after the lotto is created
Gang Cut
- The amount of the profit from ticket sales that goes to the host hobo's gang when the lotto was created
- Taxed 10%
- When combined with the House Cut, cannot exceed 100%
- Set once the lotto has been created
Notifications
- You can choose to be notified of ticket purchases, donations to the lotto, or none
- Can be changed after the lotto is created
Linking
Effect | Code | Result |
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Lotto Link | [lotto=6818]An Awesome Lotto[/lotto] | An Awesome Lotto |
Smart Lotto Link | [lottoname=6818] | Multi Millions Lotto |