Zosen Taro (8,500 subscribers), who invested his entire fortune of 73.5 million yen into the sports lottery “Mega Big,” announced the results in a live YouTube broadcast on the 2nd. Odds of winning first prize increased by 250 times due to the typhoon. “Mega Big” is a soccer lottery ticket that costs 300 yen per ticket, and its unique feature is that it automatically predicts the results of matches. To win first prize, you need to win all 12 games, but in the 1,476th Mega Big, four games were canceled due to a typhoon. Because the cancelled match was automatically considered a winning ticket, the odds of winning were reduced from the usual 1 in 16.8 million to 1 in 65,536. In addition, there was a carryover of approximately 5.8 billion yen, resulting in sales of the 1,476th lottery reaching a record high of 4.71 billion yen. This is nearly seven times the number of participants in the 1,475th event. There were 269 first prize tickets, with the total prize money being 24,804,300 yen, and second to sixth prizes were all 300 yen. Taro Zosen, a 20-year-old student investor, noticed that the odds of winning the Mega Big lottery 1,476 times were unusually high. We estimate that the lottery payout rate will be 166%. This was an unusual situation in which you get about 500 yen back for every 300 yen you buy on a lottery ticket, and he revealed that he had put his entire fortune of 73.5 million yen into it, calling it a “big gamble that would put his life on the line.” 73.5 million yen became 221.9 million yen. On the evening of the 2nd after the results were announced, Zosen Taro did a live broadcast on YouTube. I purchased 245,000 lottery tickets worth 73.5 million yen, so I used Excel to check the winnings. After tallying up the tickets, which took about an hour, it was determined that there were eight first prize winners. The prize money will be 8 x 24,804,300 yen = 198,403,440 yen. Zosen Taro reported that if the estimated prize money for second to sixth prizes is added, the total comes to approximately 221.9 million yen. According to Zosen Taro’s calculations, the number of first prize winners was 3.7, which meant a huge win of more than double his prediction. Despite this great victory, Zosen Taro did not show much emotion, instead smiling and saying, “My life has changed,” and “Thanks to you all, I’ve become a 200 millionaire,” before toasting with non-alcoholic umeshu. [Sports Lottery] A student investor who invested his entire fortune of 73.5 million yen into “mega big,” which has a “166% payout rate,” is making headlines as “it was a huge gamble that put his life on the line”★2.
>>3 Of course it is. The lottery is a form of gambling that is permitted because it has a low payout ratio, so this time it’s illegal. There’s a problem with the system, so we need to find a way to eliminate this high payout ratio.
I know the chances are low, but I’ll be interested to see how people react the next time a similar situation arises. I think the sharp-eyed overseas players from China and Korea will also get involved.
I should have bought it even if it was just a little bit. Instead of buying a lottery ticket with a 50% return rate, I should have bought this with a 166% return rate.
There will be TV and newspaper coverage, so I think it would be better to have a major company verify the facts before writing the winning article. I want Suzuki Ryohei to go and see the shipyard. He’ll be wearing that suit and saying “Congratulations!” lol. Well, that would probably lead to conspiracy theories.
Even if you play pachislots and boast that you can theoretically win, the number of people who can actually win is actually small. He’s amazing because he won.
>>31 It doesn’t matter if this guy won or not, it’s true that this Mega Big was a bonus stage where the more you buy, the higher your chances of winning.
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