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Punters hope for rub of the green as tickets for rich lottery go on sale

Monday, 18 February 2008

Tickets for the Green Jumbo Lottery, whose top-prize winners will get as much as 150 million yen each, went on sale across the nation on Monday.

In Tokyo's posh Ginza district, about 200 people lined up in front of a lottery stand before tickets went on sale at 8:30 a.m. on Monday.

"If I win first prize, I will buy my own house," said Masayuki Suzuki, a 61-year-old pensioner from Yokohama's Izumi-ku. He bought as many as 100 lottery tickets.

Suzuki, who was at the head of the line, said he had been at the lottery stand since 10:30 a.m. Sunday. He said it was roughly the 30th time that he was at the head of a line to buy lottery tickets on the day they went on sale.

There will be 17 winners of the 150-million-yen first prize, followed by 34 winners of the 25-million-yen prize for adjacent numbers. The second prize of 10 million yen each will go to 170 people, while another 51,000 winners will get 100,000 yen each as a special prize.

Tickets will be available until March 7, with the drawing slated for March 12.

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