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How to Play Lottery Safely

To participate in a lottery safely, you can follow these steps:

• Verify the legitimacy of the lottery: Check if the lottery is legitimate and officially recognized by the government or a reputable organization.
• Do not reveal personal information: Do not reveal your personal information, such as your social security number or bank account details, to anyone claiming to be from the lottery.
• Protect your ticket: Keep your lottery ticket in a safe place and don’t share the ticket number with anyone.
• Avoid scams: Be wary of any unsolicited phone calls, emails, or messages that claim you have won a prize. And ask for personal information or payment.
• Only buy tickets from authorized retailers: Do not buy lottery tickets from unauthorized sources or individuals.
• Claim prizes promptly: If you win a prize, claim it promptly and follow the instructions provided by the lottery organizers.

By following these steps, you can help protect yourself and increase your chances of participating in a lottery safely.

How to Play Lottery Safely

Legally Approved Lotteries in UAE

In the United Arab Emirates, the legal approved lottery is the Big-Ticket Abu Dhabi, Dubai Duty Free Tickets, Mahzooz, Emirates Lotto and Little Draw.  Big Ticket is run by the Abu Dhabi International Airport.  Dubai Duty Free tickets are sold by Dubai International Airport.  The Big Ticket Abu Dhabi and Dubai Duty free are a monthly draw that offers cash prizes and luxury items as prizes. Also, to participate, individuals must purchase a ticket from authorized retailers located in Abu Dhabi International Airport and Dubai Airports and or online.

How to Participate in Dubai Duty Free Draw?

To participate in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire draw, you can follow these steps:

• Purchase eligible products at Dubai Duty Free. Each purchase at the airport or online will earn you a raffle coupon.
• Fill out the coupon with your personal details including name, contact number, and email address.
• Drop the completed coupon in one of the designated drop boxes located in the airport.
• Also, wait for the draw date to see if your coupon number is in the winner list.

It’s important to note that you must be over the age of 21 and not a resident of the UAE to participate in the Millennium Millionaire draw. Also, please refer to the Dubai Duty Free official website for complete details, terms and conditions of the draw.

Lucky Draws and Raffles in UAE

Lucky draws and raffles in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are governed by the Commercial Compliance & Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector of the Department of Economic Development (DED). The CCCP regulates such promotions and draws to ensure they are fair and transparent. According to the regulations, the promoter of a lucky draw or raffle must obtain a permit from the DED and must adhere to strict rules regarding the promotion, including disclosure of the terms and conditions, the method of selection of winners, and the distribution of prizes. Additionally, the promoter needs to maintain accurate records of the promotion and make them available for inspection upon request.

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Lowest Grand Prize Money Draw in UAE

Even though many lotteries are having one million U S Dollars are bumper prize money of a paid lottery, there are other lucky draws that has even lower grand prize money.  The Lowest grand prize money of a regular lucky draw is Dirhams one hundred thousand.  This grand prize money is given by little draw ticket that has value of AED 10/-. There are also grand prizes in the ranges of A E D 200,000 and 500,000 for tickets valued at AED 25 and 50 respectively.

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Latest Lottery In the UAE

Emirates Draw easy six is the latest lottery in the U A E.  Emirates Draw is the lottery that is giving the biggest prize money in the United Arab Emirates.  There are many lucky draws in the U A E.  The prize money ranges from U S Dollars one million as grand prize onwards.   Dubai Duty Free is having this prize money of one million dollar.  Dubai Duty Free has only 5000 tickets in one draw.  It has no other prize money in cash other than the grand prize.  It is one of the foremost lottery or lucky draws in the United Arab Emirates.

The Easy Six Draw

Easy Six Draw is the latest lottery system introduced by Emirates Draw recently.  The ticket value is AED 15 per ticket.  The grand prize is AED 10 million dirhams.  There are thirty nine (39) numbers starting from 1 thru 39.  Each ticket holder can select 6 different numbers to enter the lucky draw. There are four prizes awaiting the winner(s).  The second prize is Dirhams 150,000 and the Third Prize is Dirhams 15,000.  Fourth prize is AED 5 each.  The grand prize winner(s) has to match all six numbers selected with the drawn number.  The second prize winner has to match 5 numbers of the ticket with winning number.  Third prize winner needs to match 4 drawn numbers with bought ticket.  For the fourth prize, only 3 numbers need to match. 

Raffle Draw of the Easy Six Draw

Other than the mega prize and prizes till fourth prize, there are six Raffle Draw prizes in the Easy Six Draw.  Each ticket has as a unique raffle draw number to control it.  When participant buys a ticket, the ticket is identified with a raffle draw number of it.  Out of total raffle tickets sold to participants, six of them will get a guaranteed prize.  For this prize, there is no matching numbers required.  The prizes are given to six different tickets.  Each raffle draw ticket winner will receive Dirhams 15,000/- each.

The raffle tickets are given to participants who buys Emirates Draw souvenir pencils that worth AED 15 each.  These pencils represent environment protection and sustainable energy.  The motto of the draw is to give back environment and earth against what we are having from it now.  It aims to create a healthier society by protecting environment.

First Draw Date of Easy6

The first draw date of Easy6 is 30^th September 2022 – Friday.  The Emirates draw was held its first draw on 25^th Sep 2021.  Easy6 draw is happening after completion of 1 year of first emirates draw (Mega7)

The draw is now having one address and two products under www.emiratesdraw.com.   The initial draw that was created to protect the coral reef of the U A E was the ‘Emirates Draw’ with mega prize of 100 million dirhams.  Price of participating ticket was 50 Dirhams each.  The winner needs to match 7 numbers bought with the drawn numbers.  The name of the draw was changed to “Mega7” later and another simpler format with lower ticket price and fewer selection option created.  The latter is named as “Easy Six”.  Ticket price of Easy Six is only 15 Dirhams.  The mega prize is set at AED 10 million.

What is Mega7 Raffle Draw

The Mega7 Raffle Draw is the new name of Emirates Draw that started on 25^th September 2021.  Initially, the draw day was Friday – the then weekly holiday of the UAE. The draw started with a mega prize of AED 77,777,777 for matching 7 out of 7 digits that creates a seven-digit number.  The first prize amount later fixed to 100 million dirhams. Similarly, the draw day also moved to Sunday in line with changed week end holiday of the UAE.  In the year 2022 September, name of the draw changed to Mega7 without changing its prize structure, value of ticket or draw day.   Along with it, a new draw that is easier to win is added to the website with six digit matching first prize of 10 million dirhams.

Difference between Mega7 and Easy6 Raffle Draws

The Main Difference between Mega7 and Easy6 Raffle Draws are Ticket Cost, Mega Prize and Draw Days.  Find out a tabular form of all the main difference of both below.

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Little Draw UAE

What is the Cheapest Lottery in UAE?

Little Draw is the cheapest lottery in UAE.  The little draw is the latest addition to the lotteries and lucky draws in the UAE.  It is a fortnightly draw. Every month 14^th and 28^th are the draw date.  The Little Draw has two types of winning chances.  One is the Rolling Ball and the second one is a Mega Raffle draw.  This has the highest chance of winning by matching only 3 digits.

What is the Cost of Little Draw Ticket?

AED 10 is the ticket cost of Little Draw.  One can also buy higher priced tickets to increase the winning amount many fold – that it up to Ten Times.  The tickets are also available at AED 20, AED 50 and AED 100/-.

How to win Little Draw?

By selecting just 3 right numbers from the rolling ball draw, one can win little draw.  For this, one must contribute for charity water bottle purchases ranging from AED 10 to AED 100 value.  They the contributor or participants become eligible for an optional Rolling Ball lucky draw.  Participant must select 1 digit from three different sets of numbers that ranges from zero to nine (0 to 9).  This is called Rolling Ball Draw.  10 balls rolling in each drum.  There are three drums in total.  Participant become eligible to select a 3-digit number by selecting one ball each from all three drums. 

If the number written on those balls are the drawn numbers by the machine as winning number, the participant gets first prize.   First prize winner who matched the three numbers straight will win first prize that is 250 times of ticket value they purchased.  There are second prize is 25 times of and Third prize also.  Second prize can win 25 times of the ticket value and the third prize can win 2.5 times of ticket value.

What is the Prize Money of Little Draw Raffle?

The Mega prize money of Little Draw Raffle is AED 1 million. The Rolling Ball prizes are AED 2,500 First Prize for AED 10 ticket, AED 5,000 first prize for AED 20 ticket, AED 12,500 first prize for AED 50 ticket and AED 25,000 first prize for AED 100 ticket.  For 1^st prize, all three digits selected by the participant must match in the exact form of drawn numbers.  That means if the selected number is 234, the number drawn must be 2 from first drum, 3 from second drum and 4 from third drum. 

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There are more prizes in Rolling Ball draw.  If a number drawn is in the reverse form of purchased ticket, it will be treated as second prize.  In the above case, 432 will get second prize against 2,3 & 4 drawn.  The second prize is 25 folds of ticket value. That means if the ticket value is AED 20, winner will get AED 500.

And also, the third prize of little draw is for those who picked up drawn numbers or winning numbers in jumbled manner.  In the same example above, if the order is 324 or 423 or 243 will get third prize.  The third prize is Two and Half folds of ticket value.  That means if the ticket value is AED 20, winner will get AED 50/-

Price of Water bottles of Little Draw

Price of a 250ml charity water bottle is AED 10/-.  A 500ml charity water bottle will cost AED 20/-.  Cost of 1250 ml water bottles is AED 50/-. And the 2500 ml water bottle price is AED 100/-.

What is Little Draw Rolling Ball Draw?

Rolling Ball Draw is the first winning chance of Little Draw.  When participants donate for charity water bottle, they become eligible for this draw.  There are three cylinders with 10 numbers written on 10 balls in it.  The numbers ranging from 0 (zero) to 9 (nine).  Ticket holder or the Donor can enter into this draw by selecting 3 numbers – that is one each from each cylinder.  If the winning number is matching exactly as the number picked by the ticket holder, they win 250 times of his ticket value or donation value on ticket. For an AED 10 ticket, one can will AED 2,500 as first prize.  For AED 20 Ticket, one can win AED 5,000 as first prize.  A Dh 50 ticket may bring in Dh 12,500/- as first prize.  And finally, if the ticket value is AED 100, the winner will get AED 25,000 as first prize.

What is the Prize Money of Little Draw Mega Raffle?

AED 1 million is the Prize Money of Little Draw Mega Raffle.  This can be won by a participant who had bought a ticket worth AED 100.  The mega prize is 10,000-fold of participating ticket price.  That means if a person buys AED 10 ticket and his ticket number wins the mega raffle, he is eligible to receive 10,000-fold of AED 10 – That is AED 100,000/-.  Same way an AED 20 ticket holder is eligible to win AED 200,000/- mega prize and AED 50/- ticket holder will get AED 500,000/- as mega raffle prize.

Terms and Conditions of Little Draw Prize claim

The Little Draw Raffle Draw is monitored by Dubai Economic Development Department and further controlled by terms and conditions to avoid confusions or misunderstandings.  The following are the details of it:

• When you enter to raffle draw, automatically you agree to the terms defined by ‘Little Draw’.  It cautions each participant to be aware about the rules and terms before entering.  It never promotes a gambling or illegal activity.
• Rolling draw entry needs a purchase of water bottle or multiple bottles.  These bottles will go to deserving charity seekers.
• Participant must select 3 digits from 3 sets of digits ranging from 0 to 9.  Digits can be repeated also.
• The draw date is every 14^th and 28 of the months – the location is Little Draw head office at Ibn Battuta Mall – Dubai.  Live streaming of the draw will happen and can watch on social media and internet.
• The first prize winner is one who matches the 3 digits in STRAIGHT order.

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• The participants match the winning number in REVERSE order will get second prize.
• All those who match the winning number in MIXED order will get the third prize
• Only one prize can claim against a winning number
• If winning number is 234, STRIGHT is 234, REVERSE is 432, MIXED ARE 342, 324, 243, 423 (In this case no repeating digit)
• If winning number is 223, STRAIGHT is 223, REVERSE is 322, MIXED is 232 (this is a case of repeating digits)
• Also, if the wining number is 232, STRAIT is 232 and there is NO REVERSE. MIXED numbers are 223 and 322 (This is also a case of repeating digits)
• If the winning number is 222, there is no REVERSE or MIXED.  Only STRAIGHT is applicable.
• The grand draw will be conducted at the end of ongoing promotion period.  The next date fixed is 28^th December 2022.

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There is no particular date for Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire Ticket as the draw happens soon after the complete sale of 5000 tickets of that series.  The draw date of the ticket will be intimated by email to each participant.  At times, the draw happens for more than one series also.  There are circumstances when a draw for three series had done on a particular date.

Millennium Millionaire Prize Claim – Terms and Conditions

Dubai Duty Free’s Millennium Millionaire is the foremost lucky draw in the United Arab Emirates.  It is having US Dollar One Million as the prize.  For Claiming Prize, there are certain terms and conditions to meet.  The Total number of tickets is limited to 5000 numbers.  Other than the upper limit of the total number of tickets printed for a drawn series, and the draw date clauses, the following are the other details:

• Non-Transferable:  The ticket purchased for a particular series will be valid only for that series only.  Under any circumstances, the ticket is not transferable to another draw or series.
• Online Tickets: For those who purchased online tickets, an E-ticket will be mailed to the purchaser at his or her registered e-mail.  This happens soon after he or she makes the payment online.
• Publishing Name:  The participant’s name and other details such as Nationality, Winning ticket number, etc. will publish on Dubai Duty free’s official website which is www.dubaidutyfree.com, and social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
• Claiming Prize:  The winner needs to show their original passport for verification upon winning the prize.  The winner can claim the prize by providing the original winning ticket or E-Ticket if it’s an online purchase.  Proof of purchase and photocopy of the passport also need to submit to the officials.
• Winner:  Only the person whose name is printed or written on the ticket will get the prize money.  He or She will get the amount transferred to their bank account.

In situations that are unavoidable, Dubai Duty Free may not sell tickets or cancel the draw and return all the money to participants.

Draw Date of Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire Ticket

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1. Emirates Draw
2. Mahzooz
3. Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire
4. Big Ticket of Abu Dhabi Duty Free
5. Little Draw

Emirates Draw:

Emirates Draw is a weekly draw drawn every Saturday. This is the highest paying lucky draw in the United Arab Emirates and Gulf Region.  The bumper prize is AED 100,000,000/- Dirhams.  The prize is not carried forward if there is no winner for a draw.  To win this, one needs to purchase a ticket online by paying AED 50/-.  The entry ticket will have 7 single digits selected from 0 to 9 in a particular order.  This becomes a figure that can be anything from 0000000 to 9999999. 

If the machine drawing number matches with the ticket purchased, the ticket owner gets the prize.  Whoever matches all 7 numbers in the correct order, will win the jackpot of AED 100,000,000/-.  There is a second prize of AED 777,777/- for matching 6 numbers in the correct order and the 3rd prize winner will get AED 77,777/- for matching 5 numbers.  The 4th prize winner needs to match 4 digits correctly to get AED 7,777/- and the last prize of AED 777/- is for those who match the last 3 digits correctly.

Mahzooz:

Mahzooz is the first weekly draw of Saturday.  The first prize is AED 10 million now.  Earlier it was AED 50 million.  The second prize is AED 1 million and the 3rd Prize is AED 350.  There are 3 consolation prizes of AED 100,000/- each for 3 persons.  For getting the first prize, one needs to match 5 out of 5 numbers written on balls that are drawn by a machine every week. 

The second prize winner needs to match 4 Digits and 3^rd prize winner needs to match 3 digits.  Consolation prize winners are selected from purchased tickets randomly.

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Dubai Duty Free:

This is the oldest lucky draw in the UAE.  Initially, it was available to only those who travels through Dubai Airports.  Later its locations expanded to all entry points of UAE and further came to Online Trading.  Now anyone from any whitelisted country (by UAE) can purchase the lucky draw ticket and win USD 1 Million. (3.67 million Dirhams). 

The ticket price is AED 1,000/- per entry.  Only 5000 tickets are drawn in every lucky draw.  Once the 5000 tickets are sold off of a particular series, the draw happens.

Big Ticket Draw:

This is the biggest Airport Draw in the UAE.  It is drawn on every 3^rd day of the month.  The ticket price is AED 500/- per entry.  If two tickets are bought for AED1,000/-, then a third ticket comes completely free.  The chances are 3 when buying 2. 

The highest amount that can win varies from draw to draw.  The coming draw of series 233 is having AED 15 million as first prize and series 234 is having AED 10 million as first prize.

2^nd prize is AED 1 million.

3^rd prize is AED 100,000

4^th prize is AED 90,000

5^th prize is AED 80,000

6^th prize is AED 70,000

7^th prize is AED 60,000

8^th prize is AED 50,000

These are lucky draws that are equal to Lottery tickets that are popular in India and other countries.  These are having only lucky draws getting in return for the money we pay for a ticket.  There are no returning amount or sort of investment, interest paid or valuable items distributed with a payment made. 

Big Ticket Draw:

But in Mahzooz and Emirates Draw, there are items that are like souvenirs we may get against each ticket payment we make.  Mahzooz distributes a bottle of water to deserving underprivileged people on behalf of the ticket buyers.  The ticket cost of Mahzooz is AED 35/-.  Emirates draw gives a pencil to keep as a souvenir when we purchase a ticket for AED 50/-

Other than the above lottery tickets, there are some investments based lucky draw that pays millions of dirhams to participants.  A few of them are:

1. National Bond Saving Certificates
2. Mashreq Saving certificates
3. ADCB Millionaire certificates
4. Al Awwal Saving Certificates of Union Bank
5. ADIB Ghina Certificates
6. Kunooz Saving Certificates of Emirates Islamic Bank

There are also other investment-based lucky draws, shopping-based, and money exchange house-based lottery programs that make customers richer by hundreds of thousand dirhams.

Little Draw:

The little draw is the latest addition to the lucky draws in the United Arab Emirates.  The draw is conducted on fortnightly basis (every two weeks).  The dates of draws are 14^th and 28^th of every month.  The draw is supervised by the officials from Economic Development Department of Dubai. This is a draw that gives maximum chances to a participant to win in its class.  Also, Little draw is having the cheapest participating amount in the region.  Unlike other draws that are having higher participation amount, Little Draw tickets starts from the nominal amount of AED 10/- to take part.  The winner is eligible to get 250 times of his stake – that is his participating ticket cost from the three numbers drawn.  Those who wants to reap higher amounts, can participate with higher ticket denominations like AED 20, AED 50 or Even AED 100.

Also, each participating ticket gives two chances to win.  First one is the Rolling Ball draw and the second one the mega prize raffle draw.

Little Draw:

• Rolling Ball Draw – Participants need to select three-digit number from three cylinders.  Each cylinder has 10 digits starting from 0 (zero) to 9 (nine).  If the machine drawn number is the three-digit number selected by the participant, that ticket wins 250 times of ticket price as prize.  Not only that, if your number is in reverse order to the drawn pattern, you get the second prize.  There is third prize also – even your selected numbers are in different jumbled order also, you win the third prize.  These all are subject to terms and conditions such as same digit in all cylinders, the number reads same straight and reverse etc.
• Raffle Draw – This gives a chance to win 1 million Dirhams on 28^th December and 28^th June every year.  One million is the largest amount to win depending on the ticket value.  If the original ticket that has AED 100/- value and the mega prize will be 10,000-fold – that is AED 1,000,000.  Moreover the AED 10/- ticket will get a mega prize of AED 100,000/-.  AED 20 & 50 tickets will get mega raffle prize of AED 200,000/- and 500,000/- respectively if won.

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Where to Claim Your Prize?

Big Ticket will contact you automatically if you have a winning ticket, so nothing to worry about if you missed out watching a live draw or checking the winners’ list. Additionally, we announce the winners on the website www.bigticket.ae for both cash and card draws.

To claim a lottery win, one must bring the same identification with a photo that is used to purchase the ticket as proof of identity.

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• When do the Big Ticket draw take place?
• What if I lose my ticket?

What if I lose my ticket?

In Abu Dhabi, you can usually replace tickets with a simple email. For online or computerized tickets, purchase a new ticket with the same number and proceed through the designated steps. To purchase a replacement manual ticket, send an email to help@bigticket.ae to report the loss of your ticket.

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• When do the Big Ticket draw take place?
• Where to claim your prize?

Big Ticket draws take place every month 3rd day 07:30 PM [GMT+4] Arrivals Entrance, Abu Dhabi, International Airport.

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• What is Big Ticket price?
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• Where to claim your prize?