The four players who won the jackpots of the Scandinavian Lottery, the Six Lottery, the Joker Lottery and the Five Lottery all applied for the prizes, said Paulin Ildikó, communications manager of Szerencsejáték Zrt. on InfoRadio. Each of the four huge hits took place in the last days of the election campaign, which is why Szerencsejáték Zrt. official investigationto prove to the public the purity of the lotteries.
The jackpot of the four games totals about HUF 8 billion. The biggest prize is the HUF 6.8 billion five-of-a-kind lottery, which is the biggest prize in the game’s 70-year history. The payment of the money is completely independent of the investigations, which were initiated to reassure the players and the wider public.
“The draws were fine, there were no interruptions. The lucky ones will receive their rightful prizes, the investigation is independent of this, the authority will carry it out in its own schedule, and we will publish the results as soon as we receive them”
– said the head of the communications department, who said that during the investigation they will look at the regularity of the lottery process, the authentication documents of the devices and the protocols, IT systems and other data.
On April 19, it was revealed that the previous one Szerencsejáték Zrt. had a hit on every lottery draw this week. The special success streak began on Wednesday, when someone hit all seven winning numbers in the Scandinavian Lottery’s weekly draw, thus becoming richer by HUF 290,751,715. On Thursday, the lucky players took home almost HUF 722 million in the six-lotto draw, and HUF 6,780 million in the five-lotto draw on Saturday. There was also a hit on Joker that night, which was worth HUF 29,944,980.
THE Szerencsejáték Zrt. then informed Telex, that so far it has happened twice that all the lotteries were hit within a week: in 2018 and in 2000.
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