A lottery is one way of becoming a millionaire - if you're very lucky!
Are you someone who is addicted to entering competitions? If you are, you could be called a 'comper'. These are people who can't resist the chance of winning prizes - from a box of chocolates to a new speedboat.
You find competitions everywhere: on cereal packets, in magazines and now on the internet.
Rob and Neil discuss what 'compers' do and why they do it and we hear from one man who has been called the 'king of compers'.
This week's question:
What is the biggest ever lottery cash prize to be paid in America?
a) $590 million
b) $890 million
c) $1 billion
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Listen
Are you a winner?
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Vocabulary
- luck
success you have by chance not by using skill
- comper
a slang term for someone who regularly and enthusiastically enters competitions
- prizes
rewards you get for winning something like a competition
- lottery
a game where people buy a lottery ticket hoping that their numbers are chosen by chance in the draw so that they win a money prize
- hooked on
(here) enjoying doing something and doing it as much as you can
- the lure
the attraction (of doing something)
- slogans
short, easy to remember phrases used in advertising
- high-profile
often seen in public and in the media
- master
(here) a man who is very good or skilled at something
- guru
someone respected and who people speak to for advice about something (here it is winning competitions)
- the odds
the chances of something happening
- one in a million
an extremely unlikely chance (of something happening)
