Published: 9:00am, 1 Oct 2024Updated: 9:30am, 1 Oct 2024
A man in China who bought lottery tickets for seven years using the numbers of his family’s birthdays has finally hit the jackpot, winning a 24-million-yuan (US$3.4 million) prize.
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The story of the cash bonanza unfolded on September 10 when the Chinese welfare lottery shuang se qiu, or Double Colour Ball, announced its first-prize winner a man who uses the pseudonym, Huang, from Hefei, Anhui province in central China.
His win came after he bought a 10-yuan (US$1.4) ticket with his usual self-selected numbers.
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The Double Colour Ball lottery, launched in 2003, is one of China’s most popular sweepstakes.
As of mid-July, it boasted annual cumulative sales of 30 billion yuan (US$4.3 billion) so far this year.