Thai Lotto (pronounced Thai Lah-toe) is an annual national lottery game held twice every month in Thailand. The grand prize for matching all six numbers usually amounts to several million baht; smaller prizes may also be available for matching less numbers. Regulated by the government and sold from various locations including convenience stores and street vendors.
To increase your odds of winning Thai lotto, make sure that you regularly review and check your ticket for draws. All dates of draws will be listed on the front of your ticket; if the numbers match up then you could qualify for the prizes! If unsure about your numbers ask someone local for assistance.
There is also an underground lottery network operating parallel lotteries with even larger prizes – though these operations are illegal, they’re almost impossible to thwart due to corrupt politicians and police officials taking bribes to keep things running smoothly.
Thai lotto may not be fair, but it remains an extremely popular and lucrative business in Thailand. Many buy tickets regularly to try their luck at becoming wealthy; unfortunately not everyone is lucky enough to match up the numbers correctly and become successful lotto players; therefore it is wise to purchase from reliable sellers only.
Thai lotto results are typically announced on the 1st and 16th of every month, with online and printed publications of results available to winners. Prizes up to 20,000 baht can be claimed from vendors who sold tickets directly, while larger prizes should be claimed at GLO offices.
To combat counterfeiting, official Thai lotto tickets are printed on special yellow paper with a watermark featuring Wayupak – an imaginary mythical bird from Thai legend – as a watermark and coated with chemicals detectable using bleach drops. Furthermore, each ticket features its own serial number that can be verified through computer programs.
To determine the order of lesser prize winners, a colored ball is randomly selected by the draw chairman to establish a random order of drawing tickets with low serial numbers; they are drawn first followed by those with second lowest serial numbers etc. Six-digit numbers are drawn for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th prizes as well as bonus prizes awarded to people whose first five numbers are correct but their last digit is incorrect by one number above or below (for instance: someone winning 3rd prize may actually end up taking home 5th place prize!). The Department of Finance oversees this lottery operation.
