{"id":279,"date":"2026-03-23T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/?p=279"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:13:22","slug":"uae-lottery-records-over-7000-winners-in-eid-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/uae-lottery-records-over-7000-winners-in-eid-draw","title":{"rendered":"UAE Lottery records over 7,000 winners in Eid draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No participant correctly predicted all the drawn numbers to claim the Dh30m (US$1.36m) grand prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Over <strong>7,000 people <\/strong>have won cash prizes in the latest UAE Lottery draw held over the <strong>Eid weekend<\/strong>. While four players took home Dh100,000 (US$27,224) under the guaranteed Lucky Chance ID cash prize category, 56 residents received Dh1,000 (US$272), and 7,081 others claimed Dh100 (US$27) each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Draw No. 260321 held on Saturday, March 21 featured winning numbers of 11, 19, 2, 25, 18, and 15 in the Days section, and 4 in the Months section. No participant correctly predicted all the drawn numbers to claim the Dh30m (US$8.17m) grand prize or the Dh5m (US$1.36m) second prize, meaning both will roll over to the next draw on March 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, the operator reported that it had awarded over Dh165m (US$44.99m) in prizes to more than 800,000 players since its launch, underscoring steady engagement across its draws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before switching to the Dh30m and Dh5m top prize models last November, the UAE Lottery offered a <strong>Dh100m<\/strong> (US$27.22m) grand prize. The jackpot was won once by <strong>Anilkumar Bolla<\/strong>, a 29-year-old Indian expat, in the <strong>23rd Lucky Day Draw<\/strong> on <strong>October 18<\/strong>. Since the change, no winner has emerged for the Dh30m prize, while the Dh5m prize recorded its first recipient on <strong>Saturday, February 14<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/photo-1629723515744-9ece210b6ddd-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/uae-lottery-sees-strong-participation-following-lucky-day-revamp'>UAE Lottery records thousands of winners in revamped Lucky Day draw<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No participant correctly predicted all the drawn numbers to claim the Dh30m (US$1.36m) grand prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2395,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The UAE Lottery reported no grand prize winner for its Dh30m jackpot in the latest draw, leading to a rollover, though over 7,000 participants secured smaller cash prizes. This follows a strategic shift last November from a Dh100m grand prize to a tiered Dh30m and Dh5m model, with the operator having awarded over Dh165m to 800,000 players since its inception.","focusai_entities":"UAE Lottery, Anilkumar Bolla","focusai_location":"UAE","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.85), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact of Prize Structure Change?","query":"What was the quantifiable impact of the prize structure change (Dh100m to Dh30m\/Dh5m) on the UAE Lottery's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) in the subsequent fiscal quarters?"},{"label":"Player Engagement Metrics Post-Change?","query":"How have player acquisition, retention, and average spend metrics evolved since the shift to the tiered Dh30m\/Dh5m prize model, compared to the previous Dh100m jackpot era?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}