State lottery company Vietlott handed the Jackpot 1 prize to the winner, identified only as K.S.H, on July 21.
K.S.H, who works for a company in Bac Ninh Province, buys lottery tickets about twice a week, 20 to 30 at a time, and up to 50 when the jackpot climbs. He found Vietnam’s computerized lottery about five years ago and stuck with it because it played much like the games he knew back in South Korea.
His numbers, 09-17-20-33-41-42, bought the ticket at an outlet on Nguyen Dang Dao Street in Bac Ninh, came up in the July 11 draw, which had accumulated for about a month and a half.
Vietlott puts the odds of winning Jackpot 1 at roughly 1 in 28.9 million.
After VND10.28 billion in personal income tax, he takes home more than VND92.5 billion. He gave VND1.5 billion to charity through the Tam Tai Viet social fund.
K.S.H is the fourth foreigner to win on Vietlott’s Mega 6/45 or Power 6/55 games. Before him, two South Koreans and a Chinese national won. The previous foreign record was VND32.6 billion ($1.24 million), taken by one of the Koreans, in Ho Chi Minh City in mid-2025.
K.S.H wears a mask to receive his lottery prize of more than VND100 billion in Hanoi on July 21. Photo by Read/Anh Tu |
In its 10 years of operation, Vietlott had paid out nearly VND31 trillion ($1.18 billion) in prizes as of early June. Some 533 players have won Jackpots of VND1 billion or more, worth nearly VND12.18 trillion combined; 130 of them bought the tickets through SMS and 403 at traditional outlets.
Vietlott is wholly owned by the Ministry of Finance. It runs more than 6,100 outlets across Vietnam and a phone-based system with over 4 million registered accounts, and plans to add online ticket sales.
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