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'Jumbo' lottery tickets go on sale nationwide.


TOKYO, May 13 Kyodo

Tickets for the ''Dream Jumbo'' lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g.  with a jackpot of 300 million yen went on sale nationwide Monday Monday: see week. .

Prizes will include 40 top prizes worth 200 million yen, 120 second prizes worth 100 million yen and 80 prizes worth 50 million yen for combinations one figure off the winning sequence.

Ticket buyers will have a chance to win up to 300 million yen -- the top prize of 200 million yen plus 50 million yen in prizes for tickets close to the winning combo.

About 400 people dreaming of being millionaires started lining up early in the morning to buy the 300 yen tickets at a ''Chance Center'' ticket booth in Nishi Nishi may refer to:
  • Nishi (tribe) in Arunachal Pradesh, India
  • Nishi-Rosen Agreement, 1898 Russo-Japanese agreement over disputed territory in Korea, partially named after Nishi Tokujiro
People
 Ginza in Tokyo's Ginza district, known for selling past top-prize tickets.

The lottery tickets will be sold until May 31 and the drawing will take place June 11.
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Date:May 20, 2002
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