The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) said a lone winner bagged the jackpot prize of over P571 million in the Ultra Lotto 6/58 draw on Friday, just two days before the New Year 2024.
The combination 19-35-25-42-58-05 won for the bettor P571,554,916.40.
The other major lotto draw, the Megalotto 6/45, also had a lone winner who bagged P23,333,389.60 with the combination 06-12-28-04-16-17.
The prize of over P571 million is so far the biggest jackpot won in 2024 since a man in Nueva Ecija hit the Ultra Lotto 6/58 jackpot on June 30 and won more than P366 million.
The PCSO offered more than P1 billion in jackpot prizes for bettors after it hiked the minimum prizes for the 6/58 and 6/55 lotto games to P500 million each on Dec. 16.
This was in line with the PCSO’s “Handog Pakabog” Christmas draws.
“We’re giving out more than P1 billion in prizes. The games 6/58 and 6/55 starting tomorrow will have P500 million each,” PCSO general manager Mel Robles said.
“We made it sweeter by making it 500 million ‘yung dalawang jackpots…We’ll give you the best of both worlds. We give you a big jackpot and we’ll give also the chance to help. That’s our Christmas gift,” he added.
Still to be won is the Grand Lotto 6/55 jackpot which was worth P557.9 million on Wednesday.
The PCSO said that a 20% tax is automatically deducted from prizes above Php10,000 in compliance with the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law.