All 6 Lotto Winning Numbers in the 20s... Only 3.6 Billion Won Prize for 36 Winners

36 First-Place Winners, 23 Chose Numbers Manually
Prize Money: 823,931,021 KRW Each

The results of the 1162nd Donghaeng Lottery Lotto drawing held on the 8th have become a hot topic as all six first-place winning numbers came from the 20s range.

The first-place winning numbers for the 1162nd Lotto are '20, 21, 22, 25, 28, 29'. The second-place bonus number is '6'. There are a total of 36 first-place winners who matched all six numbers in this round. Among them, 23 winners chose their numbers manually. There are 11 automatic winners and 2 semi-automatic winners.

Due to the large number of 36 first-place winners, the prize money each first-place winner receives is only 823,931,021 KRW. This amount is less than half of the previous round's prize of 1,792,650,000 KRW. The average first-place prize money received by Lotto winners is 2,025,400,000 KRW. After deducting income tax of 30% (20% for amounts under 300 million KRW) and resident tax of 3% (2% for amounts under 300 million KRW), the actual amount received by the first-place winners in this round is 585,034,114 KRW.

There are 78 second-place winners who matched five numbers plus the bonus number 6. Each of them receives 63,379,310 KRW.

There are 4,752 third-place winners who matched five numbers, each receiving 1,040,317 KRW. For the fourth place, 160,953 winners matched four numbers and each receives 50,000 KRW. For the fifth place, 2,538,565 winners matched three numbers and each receives 5,000 KRW.

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Meanwhile, in the 1128th Donghaeng Lottery Lotto drawing held on July 13 last year, a record-high 63 first-place winners were announced. At that time, the prize money was only 420 million KRW, marking the second-lowest first-place prize amount in history. The large number of winners sparked conspiracy theories on online communities, but Donghaeng Lottery dismissed these claims as coincidences rather than errors. Prior to that, the record for the most first-place winners was 50 in the 1019th drawing on June 12, 2022. In the 1057th Lotto drawing held in March 2023, controversy arose when 664 second-place winning tickets were issued.

The lowest first-place prize in Lotto history was 409.54 million KRW on May 18, 2013 (the 546th drawing), with 30 winners at that time.