2023-12-13 07:22:34
Controversy is rising after a person who purchased 50,000 ‘Quirer 8’ lottery tickets with the same numbers in China received a winning prize of over 40 billion won. /Weibo
There was a case in China where a person bought about 50,000 lottery tickets with the same numbers and received a winning prize of over 40 billion won. However, suspicions of manipulation were raised locally as this buyer was found to have purchased lottery tickets two hours before the drawing.
According to China’s state-run CCTV, on the 2nd, a winner emerged from Jiangxi Province and won 220 million yuan (about 40.2 billion won) by betting on the ‘Quirer 8’ lottery. He reportedly received the winnings three days later.
Quira 8 is a method of randomly selecting at least 1 and up to 10 numbers from 1 to 80. On the day of the draw, 20 numbers are randomly drawn and announced. The more numbers that match the drawn numbers, the higher the winnings. Numbers can be selected manually or automatically.
This winner drew 7 numbers and hit all of them correctly. However, while the winner was purchasing the lottery ticket, suspicious details were revealed, raising suspicions of manipulation.
The price of one ticket for this lottery ticket is 2 yuan (about 360 won), and the purchase quantity is limited to 10,000 tickets per person. However, this winner spent 100,000 yuan (about 18 million won) to purchase 49,250 lottery tickets with the same numbers. When matching 7 numbers, the amount is 4,475 yuan (about 800,000 won), but when about 50,000 tickets were purchased with the same number, the total amount received increased to 220 million yuan. It is not known how the winner purchased more than 10,000 lottery tickets.
In addition, it was revealed that this winner visited several retailers and purchased lottery tickets just two hours before the drawing began. It is physically impossible for one person to purchase 50,000 lottery tickets within 2 hours. For example, assuming that it takes this winner 10 seconds to manually enter 7 numbers, it would take 5 days, 18 hours, 53 minutes and 20 seconds to write 7 numbers 50,000 times.
Local netizens responded by saying, “What kind of person spends 100,000 yuan on a lottery ticket?”, “Is he a time traveler?”, and “The Central Discipline Inspection Commission should investigate.” CCTV, a local state-run media outlet, also came forward and demanded an investigation.
However, this winner explained, “I have been buying Quira 8 lottery tickets for over 5 years,” and “I buy lottery tickets three or four times a week, and because I am in a good financial situation, I spend thousands to tens of thousands of yuan on lottery tickets.”
Meanwhile, in China, lottery sales rates are also rapidly increasing as the number of young people seeking to turn their lives around is increasing due to the recent economic recession. According to data released by China’s Ministry of Finance, cumulative lottery sales from January to October this year amounted to 475.876 billion yuan (about 86.2 trillion won), a 53% increase over the same period last year. As the lottery became more popular, the number of sellers also increased, and the number of newly registered companies as of October this year increased by 38% compared to last year. Taxis equipped with lottery vending machines and mini lottery machines have also appeared in downtown downtown and tourist attractions.
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