Receipt Lottery

Something I've been meaning to blog about...The Receipt Lottery.

Basically, every time you make a purchase you are playing the Receipt Lottery. Every purchase at 7-11. Every trip to Wellcome (supermarket). Even purchases from the squid-on-a-stick guy count (well, that's if he gave out receipts).

Each receipt has an eight digit number on it and depending on how many numbers you match you win more money. And you can win some solid money. The grand prize is 2 million NT (about $65,000 US). Now I'm not getting any false hopes of winning that much, but winning some extra cash to put towards dumplings and Taiwan Beer is nothing to sneeze at.

Here's a good summary of how it works.

Unfortunately, I didn't win on the 7/25 drawing but I also had about 15 receipts saved since I didn't know this existed until late June. I probably get 2-3 receipts a day so I should have plenty of opportunities to make the big time at the 9/25 drawing. Happy gambling!