Lottery Company Tailors Lotto Game to Suit Home Market
ZAMBIA (November 09, 2001) -- According to domestic news sources the Lottery Management Company (LMC) has introduced a lotto game especially tailored for the Zambian market.
Launching the new product, called Kwachamania Big Bang, in Lusaka yesterday, LMC assistant sales and marketing manager Evans Luhanga said the game was peculiar to the Zambian market because it comes with guaranteed prizes, unlike the standard lotto game where the jackpot can only be won when someone gets the numbers correct.
"This means that all the prizes will have to be won at the time of the draw," he said. Luhanga said it was for this reason it was called the 'Zambian Lotto' because the punters always want guaranteed prizes.
He said a total of K360 million would be paid out in guaranteed prizes to 1,350 players', the first prize being the latest Mercedes Benz Kompressor C200 worth K180 million supplied by Lonrho Motors. The other prizes are two K10 million cash prizes, five K5 million cash prizes, twenty-five K1 million cash prizes and 50 cash prizes of K500,000 each.
The balance would be staggered across 1,300 lotto players' who would each get cash prizes of K200,000, K100,000 and K50,000. From each province would be drawn 50 tickets with another 900 to be added.
Ticket sales for the new Lotto game will begin on November 21. Tickets will cost K3,000 for each entry.
SOURCE: Africa News Service.