Tuesday, November 24, 2009

年末ジャンボ宝くじ発売(nenmatsu jambo takarakuji hatsubai)

The pleasure of the end of the year has started. That is the sales of the lottery. It is called nenmatsu jambo takarakuji (年末ジャンボ宝くじ). Nenmatsu (年末) means the end of the year. Jambo is jumbo. Takarakuji (宝くじ) is lottery. One ticket costs yen 300.
The first prize is 70 of yen 200,000,000. The number before and after that prize is called zengo sho(前後賞) and it is yen 50,000,000 each. Therefore if you buy 3 lottery tickets, and if you are lucky enough, there is a possibility for you to get yen 300,000,000 for just yen 900.
The second prize is 140 of yen 100,000,000. The third prize is 700 of yen 5,000,000. Special prize for 2010 is 7000 pcs of yen 1,000,000.
They will be sold until December 22 and the drawing is December 31. The total sales amount will be yen 210,000,000,000.

According to the Mizuho bank yen 2,150,000,000 of winner prizes of last year has not been cashed yet. The expiry is Jan. 5, 2010.

What would you like to do if you win? I would like to be a snowbird.

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