Last week, a whopping 50 winners of the lottery came out, and there is a controversy about manipulation, saying that the number was not leaked in advance.
The companion lottery side dismissed it as "a coincidence".
According to the Lottery Committee of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance on the 13th and the accompanying lottery in charge of selling the lottery tickets, there were a total of 50 first-place winners who matched all 6 winning numbers in the 1019th lottery drawing on the 11th.
This is the highest record since the lottery wassuance in December 2002.
The previous record was the 546th (May 18, 2013), when 30 people won.
Among the 50 first-place winning lottery prizes, the manual purchase by direct marking of the number was the most with 42 cases, followed by the automatic case in 6 cases and the semi-automatic case in 2 cases.
As there were 50 winners, the prize money was greatly reduced, but each person received the winning amount of 43,8565,140 won.
It is a stark difference from the first two people who took 12,361.74 million won per person in the previous round.
Netizens paid attention to the winning number in the news of the largest number of first-place winners ever.
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The 1019 winning numbers are 1, 4, 13, 17, 34, 39 and the bonus number 6.
These numbers were the numbers that won the most 1st place so far.
The 'frequently appeared first prize numbers' published by the companion lottery include 1 (174), 4 (168), 13 (172), 17 (172), 34 (177), 39 There were times (168 times).
The lottery is a lottery in which 6 out of 45 numbers are randomly assigned or you choose your own to guess the lottery number.
1st place if all 6 numbers match the lottery numbers, 2nd place if 5 numbers and bonus numbers match, 3rd place if 5 numbers match, 4th place if 4 matches, 5th place if 3 matches.
Accordingly, netizens speculated that the 1st place winners in this round must have purchased each time by manually combining the numbers that frequently won 1st place.
However, some netizens suggested the possibility of manipulation.
Mentioning the fact that the number of first-place winners increased 25 times in one week and that the number of manual winners was 84%, "The probability of winning the lottery is lower than the probability of being struck by lightning, is this possible without manipulation?", "To avoid suspicion, record Don't play it and draw a lottery live broadcast."
Regarding this, an official from the accompanying lottery said, "The probability of the lottery ticket itself is 1 in 8.14 million," and "There were many people who accidentally picked the winning number this time."