A lone bettor in Caloocan City defied an enormous one-in-28.99 million odds in the 6/55 lotto draw by winning Wednesday evening the jackpot at stake worth P142,859,048.40.
The bettor bought his winning ticket from a lotto outlet on Marcelo H. Del Pilar Street, Grace Park, Caloocan City.
The winning numbers are 1-6-9-16-35-40.
Meanwhile, 34 bettors won the consolation prize of P150,000 each for picking 5 correct numbers.
A total of 2,025 winners received P2,000 each for getting 4 out of 6 numbers.
While 40,107 more won P150 for getting 3 correct numbers.
Did you Know that ....
A total of P605,273,958.20 in unclaimed prizes for all online lotto games of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in the Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao draws has been forfeited after the one-year period to claim expired.
According to PCSO records, the forfeited prizes were mostly minor prizes of the EZ 2, the 3-digit game, 4-digit game, 6-digit game, 6/42, the Mega Lotto, the 6/42 the 6/49 Super Lotto and the short-lived Power Lotto game.
The unclaimed prizes which represent 55 percent of the total sales of the online lotto games will be reverted to the charity fund of the agency.
Unclaimed prizes revert and form part of the charity fund after one year.
Lotto jackpot prize forfeited to charity
An anonymous lotto bettor forfeited to charity a total P173,918,451.60 after failing to claim the amount as his prize in winning the Super Lotto 6/49 jackpot on February 22, 2009.
The forfeited money represents half of the record P347,836,903.20 jackpot prize that went up for grabs during the February 22, 2009 Superlotto 6/49 draw.
The other half was won and claimed by a 50-year-old Caloocan City housewife who purchased the winning ticket from the lotto outlet of Alicia Ildefonso on Jose Street, Malibay, Pasay City.
