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A part-time housing agent wants Singapore Pools to pay him prize money of $910,000, insisting that he had won the top prize of $10,000 on each of 91 Scratchit! cards he bought.
Mr John Berchmans, 69, who took the stand on Monday in his suit against the lottery operator, said that he took the words on the cards to mean that as long as he could get three identical numbers or symbols in the game panel, he would automatically be entitled to the top prize of $10,000 on each card.
But the lottery operator says that Mr Berchmans, who paid $1 for each card, won only between $1 and $10 on each card, for a total of $263.
Singapore Pools says that the words on the cards convey the message that there are various prizes and the top prize is $10,000, and that one needs three in a row to win a prize, but not necessarily the top prize.