THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thiruvonam bumper lottery is a game of luck. There are varied stories of success and ill luck surrounding Kerala’s most vaunted lottery ticket. Very few keep high hopes of winning the bumper prize while spending their valuable earnings on the ticket, but regardless of the tales, the sales keep soaring every year.

This time, more than 75 lakh tickets were sold in the state. During earlier times, the ticket prize was Rs 100, and the first prize was Rs 5 crore. Later, the ticket price and prize money gradually increased to the current range of Rs 500-25 crores.

The prize money of the Onam Bumper was increased to 25 crores from 2022. That year, the first prize was won by Anoop, a native of Thiruvananthapuram. An exuberant Anoop gleamed on television screens announcing his

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