The seventh TOTO cascade draw of the year concluded on Thursday (17 July), with no Group 1 winner taking the massive jackpot of S$12.8 million.
Thus, the 12 Group 2 winners split the prize, with each of them getting a cool S$1.2 million.
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The latest draw was hotly anticipated as the jackpot had snowballed to an estimated S$10 million.
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The Group 1 jackpot ended up being S$12,766,543, according to Singapore Pools.
The winning numbers ended up being 7, 8, 17, 29, 32 and 42.
The additional number was 1.
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While the jackpot is often shared between a few Group 1 winners, none emerged after the draw.
As it was a cascade draw, the rules state that the jackpot will be split between the Group 2 winners in such a case.
Thus, each of the 12 Group 2 winners won S$1,186,233.
Source: Singapore Pools
In comparison, each Group 3 winner got just S$1,658.
The 17 July draw was declared as a cascade draw after three consecutive draws — on 7 July, 10 July, and 14 July — failed to produce a Group 1 winner.
The last draw that had a Group 1 winner was on 3 July, when one punter took home an impressive S$2,894,419.
A cascade draw is typically called in such a situation, meaning the jackpot will be split between the Group 2 winners if no Group 1 winner emerges.
If there are no Group 2 winners, the prize will be split among the Group 3 winners, and so on.
This has been a huat year so far for Singapore punters, with no less than seven cascade draws so far.
Previous cascade draws this year were the New Year Draw on 3 Jan, Reunion Draw on 24 Jan, Hong Bao Draw on 7 Feb, and draws on 6 March, 28 April and 19 June.
In the draw on 19 June, one lucky punter snagged the full sum of more than S$12.3 million. This was the only cascade draw this year with only one winner.
The next TOTO draw will be next Monday (21 July), for an estimated jackpot of S$1 million.
Also read: S’pore TOTO jackpot swells to S$10M for 17 July draw after 3 draws without Group 1 winners
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