A lucky player that bought a Lotto ticket via FNB is now R15.2-million richer after matching all six numbers in Wednesday evening’s draw. This is the biggest jackpot won from the FNB channel since the offering became live to their customers last year. Customers purchasing via FNB have received winnings of over R70 Million in total for LOTTO and PowerBall in this time.
Ithuba has already paid over R40 million in jackpots since the modified Lotto and Lotto Plus games were launched just over a month ago. Over R 6.5-million in Lotto Plus Jackpots have also been paid out over the period.
For the first time ever, the Lotto Plus jackpot now stands at an estimated R9.7-million for Saturday’s draw.
There’s also been more than 710 000 winners of R50 who matched 3 numbers in the Lotto game while Lotto Plus has recorded over 648 000 winners of R20 in the same category.
Ithuba has now recorded a total of 108 jackpot winners across all games while creating 61 millionaires in the process since June last year when it took over the running of the lottery.
The FNB platform is one of Ithuba’s recently-introduced exciting alternative ways of playing the lottery, another innovation aimed at making the lottery games easily accessible to people from all corners of South Africa.
FNB customers are able play their favourite lottery games on the banks’ platforms which include fnb.co.za, FNB Cellphone Banking *120*321#, the FNB Banking APP and FNB ATMs.
Meanwhile, the PowerBall jackpot which has rolled over several times and is now estimated at an incredible R45-million for tonight’s (Friday, 01 July) draw.
Powerball and Powerball Plus draws are broadcast live on e.tv at 9pm on Tuesday and Friday evenings while ticket sales close 30 minutes before every draw.