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Sisal manages Totip+, SuperEnalotto, Tris, Totocalcio, Totogol, Big Match and Big Race.

Totip+

For over fifty years, 52 weeks a year, Sisal is punctually distributed the Totip betting slip to licensed betting points throughout Italy. From 1948 to today, about 83 million winners have shared over EUR 949.247.780,53 in winnings. Totip is the leading pools competition, along with Totocalcio (also invented by Sisal in 1946).

In July 1995, Totip was transformed into Totip+, and its bets increased from 12 to 14. Along with the classic 6 races (for each the marks 1X2 are used to indicate the group to which the first horse and runner-up belong), the new slip contains a space for Corsa+ where the player marks the numbers of the first two horses to place, independently of their order of arrival.

Totip+ is thus the first horse-racing lottery to pay four categories of winnings: 10, 11, 12 and 14. The prize money is divided into four equal shares for the four groups of winners. If no one realises 14, the 25% of the prize money set aside for the 1st category is added to the Jackpot which is accumulated week after week until someone wins the "12+2".

The Jackpot mechanism can lead to winnings worth billions of lire. That is just what happened on 17 March 1996, game number 11, when a single winner earned exactly EUR 2.102.238,84. On 29 November 1998, thanks to a system, 100 lucky players in Pescara won EUR 2.136.714,40.

Today, Totip+ is showing signs of fatigue and suffers from the competition of more recent lotteries based on more up-to-date betting mechanisms.

Sisal has submitted to U.N.I.R.E. and the Ministry of Finance a project proposal to redesign the game's formula with the aim of improving its competitive edge and boosting its tax revenues.