The winners had been counting on the multiples-of-9 combination for years, in the hope of winning someday.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): Some of the 433 winners in the Grand Lotto 6/55 draw on Saturday (Oct 1) are now claiming their share of the P236-million (RM19mil) jackpot.
Their collective stroke of luck has generated controversy since it is rare to have that many winners in the state lottery. Furthermore, they won through a combination of numbers that happened to be all divisible by a single digit, in this case, 9.
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