On Oct. 1, 2022, 433 bettors hit the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) 6/55 Grand Lotto with a jackpot prize of P236,091,188.40.
A SunStar article published online on Oct. 2, 2022 reported that it was a “first in the history of the Philippines.” “At the 9 p.
m. draw of the PCSO, 433 people got the winning combination of 09-45-36-27-18-54, all were divisible by nine,” the report read. “The winning bettors will get P545,254.
24 each.” An editorial piece by SunStar published on Oct. 4, 2022 broke down a mathematics professor’s assessment of the situation.
“University of the Philippines professor of mathematics Dr. Guido David said on Monday, Oct. 3, that having 433 winning bettors in a single lotto draw is ‘highly unusual’ but not completely impossible,” the editorial read.
“David, also a fellow at Octa Research, noted that the probability of winning the 6/55 Grand Lotto jackpot is one in nearly 29 million, which means that there were also nearly 29 million possible combinations of numbers from six to 55. The professor was referring to the winning combination 09-45-36-27-18-54 during Saturday’s draw.” More than mathematics In a Sept.
6, 2022 article by the Washington Post, psychiatrist Timothy Fong, also co-director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program, noted that in the past, discussing gambling openly was often discouraged, but now, young people are exposed to it regularly through television. In a podcast released on Jan. 21, 2023, Fong sha.