Lottery event not working?

It could be a bug but when I had a lottery the winner was announced in a notification the following day.

The winners are announced the following day :smile:

Is the lottery supposed to show up on the calendar once per season because I have played 3 full seasons and my sims haven’t got the opportunity to play it yet? Winter has just started for them so maybe it’ll turn up soon.

"IrishSimmer21;c-16592340" wrote:
Is the lottery supposed to show up on the calendar once per season because I have played 3 full seasons and my sims haven’t got the opportunity to play it yet? Winter has just started for them so maybe it’ll turn up soon.

It shows up randomly. I'm not sure how often it is supposed to occur. Maybe it depends on how long you have you seasons set.

There are a few fixed holidays per year (IIRC Winterfest and New Years Eve) and a lot of randomly selected

In some years there may even be a full season without holiday (happened to me one year in summer)

Thanks so much guys for coming to my aid. :smiley:

I confess I was an idiot.

The game did announce a winner....it just got buried in my notifications. And now I feel like a right idiot.

+2 embarrassment moodlet.
http://i68.tinypic.com/1zzg6f7.png

"ParmaViolet87;c-16592889" wrote:
Thanks so much guys for coming to my aid. :smiley:

I confess I was an plum.

The game did announce a winner....it just got buried in my notifications. And now I feel like a right plum.

+2 embarrassment moodlet.
http://i68.tinypic.com/1zzg6f7.png

Aww don't its hard to always pay attention to the notifications. <3

"pepperjax1230;c-16592896" wrote:

"ParmaViolet87;c-16592889" wrote:
Thanks so much guys for coming to my aid. :smiley:

I confess I was an plum.

The game did announce a winner....it just got buried in my notifications. And now I feel like a right plum.

+2 embarrassment moodlet.
http://i68.tinypic.com/1zzg6f7.png

Aww don't its hard to always pay attention to the notifications. <3

I never notice them until my notifications glow a bright orange saying 'FULL' then I bin them all. Honestly, I am the worst :lol:

Mayor Whiskers won the lottery in my game. I doubt it was intended for animals to be able to win, but he’s such a dapper gentleman, I wouldn’t want to deny him his winnings. I hope he doesn’t spend it all on catnip. Perhaps a nice monocle or bow tie to go with his top hat would be a good use of the money.

"calaprfy;c-16592859" wrote:
I began a new game when I purchased Seasons and set the season length to 28 days, starting with Summer.

The Lottery Day happened today (it was the 2nd day of Fall (or as us English call it, Autumn)) and the family I'm currently playing (I play rotationally) entered but lost. They gained a sad moodlet.


The next day, a notification popped up with the name of the winner...a townie! I went into household management and there was the townie, in "Not In World" worth a cool one million simoleons!


Well, it seemed a shame to let all that money go to waste so the townie moved in with my family then mysteriously vanished! Ahem.

That is so awesome. I was wondering how much a sim could win. Next lottery, my gold-digging sim might have to accidentally bump into the lottery winner. :D