In Vietnam, three win American-style lottery jackpot in one month

If anyone has ever thought winning a jackpot is a rare occurrence, they should think again as a Vietnam-Malaysia joint venture has found three winners of its American-style computerized lottery this month.

The joint venture, Vietlott, said on November 19 that its 54th draw showed the ‘Mega 6/45’ jackpot combination of 09-23-33-38-41-42, with the winner to claim VND56.1 billion (US$2.48 million).

A ticket sold in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has been discovered matching this combination, Vietlott added.

On November 13, the lottery’s 51st draw found the third winner, who was entitled to US$3.17 million, after buying a ticket in Ho Chi Minh City.

A ticket holder from the southern province of Dong Nai also claimed nearly VND65 billion (US$2.9 million) pre-tax in the lottery’s 46th draw on November 2.

On October 16, a farmer from the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh was named the first winner of the jackpot, worth US$4.11 million then.

Vietnamese laws dictate that a lottery winner pay a 10% income tax before receiving the jackpot.

Mega 6/45 has the jackpot probability of one in 8.1 million but the 54th draw had a better winning chance as over four million tickets had been sold, higher than normal.

Vietlott now has agents in nine cities and provinces, including Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho City, An Giang Province, Binh Duong Province, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Khanh Hoa Province, Dak Lak Province, and Danang City.

The computerized lottery was introduced in July as a result of cooperation between Vietnam’s state-run lottery company Vietlott and an indirect subsidiary of Malaysia-based firm Berjaya Corp Bhd (BCorp), which was granted an 18-year investment license to operate the computerized lottery in the country in January.

As the name suggests, buyers of the lottery select any combination of six-numbers between 1 and 45 for VND10,000 (US$0.45).

The jackpot combination is randomly selected every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday at 6:00 pm, and rolled over into the next lottery period should no winner emerge.

Apart from the jackpot, bonus prizes of up to VND10 million (US$446) are awarded to those with three, four, or five numbers matching the jackpot combination.

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