Hear in Taiwan

Come try your luck with this giant instant lotto ticket.

But be warned- this ticket is going to set you back by NT$2000, whereas its average sized peers, which are typically no bigger than the size of an adult hand, only cost you NT$100 or NT$200.

But the rewards can be handsome.

Top prize, well, you probably have already figured from the picture above, is NT$26 million, or more than US$ 880’000.

And if you’re lucky but not top-prize lucky- worry not, because there still 25 NT$ 1 million prizes waiting to be claimed.

Have I mentioned that there are eight games you can play on this behemoth ticket, and that your chances of winning are 80%? (Not all of them guarantee top prizes of course.)

(It’s even got separate instructions on the back that tells you how to play each game. Very considerate of them indeed.)

A friend of mine bought three of these scratch card lotto tickets, put them in red envelopes and gave these envelopes to his relatives for good luck during the Chinese New Year.

One of the relatives won NT$5000, one won NT$1000, and the other one won nothing. So it didn’t really pay off in the end per se, but they all liked this unique red envelope.

I found this particular ticket in the picture in the backseat of my buddy’s car. That poor fella didn’t win anything with this ticket, but he still kept it because he’d never seen a bigger lottery ticket in his life and he wanted to hold on to it for keepsake.

(To win this particular game in the treasure chest, one of the numbers need to match the one of the two numbers on the bottom left corner. That, however, did not happen here.)