Betware has powered the lotto game run by the UK’s new lottery called monday – the Charities Lottery. The partnership with the lottery was finalized early last month and the game went live on Saturday 22nd April 2006.
Betware has powered the lotto game run by the UK’s new lottery called monday – the Charities Lottery. The partnership with the lottery was finalized early last month and the game went live on Saturday 22nd April 2006. The contract will see Betware as the gaming services provider for Chariot (UK) plc, the company behind the game.

The game, available on www.playmonday.com is similar to a regular Lotto game with players able to choose any six numbers between 1 and 49 on their tickets. The draw then selects six numbers randomly, just like Lotto, but to significantly improve a player’s chance of winning, all six numbers do not have to match exactly. If there is no clear winner, the jackpot is won by the player (or players) whose numbers are closest to the six number draw. In addition, “monday” will give unsuccessful players in the first draw a second chance – with a further draw with double the prize money.

“We started collaborating with Betware at the end of 2005 and everything is going very well. We are very pleased with the game development and the promptness to deadlines. We hope to develop more games with Betware in the near future”, says Andrew Williams, Marketing Director for Chariot (UK) plc.

The game will be run on the powerful Betware Gaming Platform (BGP), a flexible and scalable solution which allows for the addition of new games and services with its modular design. Additionally, each service can be customized based on individual needs whilst still keeping the same “core” for all suppliers. “The BGP is system independent, meaning that it can run on a variety of operating systems and application server platforms”, says Jonas Jonasson, Betware’s senior programmer in charge of developing the core system for Chariot.

Betware has partnered with Chariot’s monday lottery to use Trusted Draw?, developed by Szrek2Solutions, an electronic draw and audit system to prevent fraud and generate the draw outcomes for the game offered. Betware and Szrek2Solutions currently also collaborate on the gaming system for the Danish Lottery, Dansk Tipstjeneste.