According to information from Vietnam Computerized Lottery Company (Vietlott), in the 1023rd drawing of Power 6/55 lottery taking place tonight (April 18), Vietlott's Drawing Council determined the Jackpot 1 prize value to be nearly 39 billion VND. However, no lucky player has won this prize yet.

However, Vietlott's system has determined that 1 customer won the Jackpot 2 prize worth
3,625,181,100 VND in tonight's drawing.

The lucky numbers in the 1023rd draw of the Power 6/55 lottery taking place today are 01 - 21 - 23 - 33 - 43 - 54 and the golden pair of numbers to compare Jackpot 2 is 28.

A Jackpot 2 winning ticket is one that matches 5 out of 6 numbers of Jackpot 1 and the remaining number matches the lucky number randomly selected by Vietlott.

The Jackpot 1 winning numbers today are 01 - 21 - 23 - 33 - 43 - 54. The winning Jackpot 2 ticket is the ticket that matches 5 of the 6 numbers above and number 28.

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Found a lottery ticket that won the Vietlott jackpot of more than 3.6 billion VND. Photo: Vietlott

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Finance in Circular No. 111/2013/TT-BTC, the owner of the winning ticket will have to fulfill the tax payment obligation according to current regulations when receiving the prize.

Accordingly, the lucky customer who won the Jackpot 2 jackpot today will have to pay 10% personal income tax, equivalent to more than 362 million VND. Thus, the amount of money the player receives is nearly 3.3 billion VND.

Also in this 1023rd drawing, Vietlott found 18 people who won first prizes, each worth 40,000,000 VND, 729 people who won second prizes, each worth 500,000 VND, and 14,634 people who won third prizes, each worth 50,000 VND.

The prize claim period is 60 days from the date of announcement of the prize. After this period, the prize will be canceled and added to Vietlott's other income category.

According to Vietlott, Jackpot 2 is much easier to win than Jackpot 1. According to statistics, the probability of winning Jackpot 1 is up to 1 in 28.9 million customers while Jackpot 2 is 1 in 4.8 million customers. Thus, the probability of winning Jackpot 2 is 6 times higher than Jackpot 1.

Since the launch of the Power 6/55 lottery (August 2017), the highest Jackpot 1 prize worth more than 314 billion VND was found by Vietlott on the evening of April 11. The second highest Jackpot 1 prize worth more than 303 billion VND was found in draw 119 and was awarded to a customer in Hanoi .

The highest Jackpot 2 prize, worth more than 70 billion VND, was found in draw 95 and was awarded to a customer from Can Tho .

Having just 'exploded' the jackpot of 314 billion, Vietlott has another customer winning the billion-dollar Jackpot . Having just found 2 lottery tickets that won the Jackpot 1 prize with a value of more than 314 billion VND in the previous draw, Vietlott has another customer winning the billion-dollar Jackpot in the Power 6/55 lottery in today's draw.