Gulf Today, Staff Reporter
More fortunes changed at the 86th Mahzooz weekly draw, which took place on Saturday 24 July, and witnessed 1,248 participants take home Dhs1,724,550 in prize money. Operated by EWINGS, Mahzooz, the leading weekly draw in the UAE has created 26 millionaires since inception and continues to change lives for the better.
As many as 35 participants matched four out of five numbers and shared the second prize of Dhs1,000,000 securing Dhs28,571 each; 1,213 other winners matched three out of five numbers and received the third prize of Dhs350 each.
As always, the weekly raffle draw saw three participants share Dhs300,000 among them. The lucky winners who received Dhs100,000 each were Hassan from Pakistan, Zulfqar from Pakistan, and Ram from India.
The winning raffle numbers were 17048865, 16980511 and 16993429 respectively. Mahzooz rewards big and has made several multi-millionaires in just over two years since the start of its operation.
Overall, Mahzooz has awarded over Dhs240,000,000 to over 172,000 winners, as it continues to gain popularity in the region and beyond. Participating in Mahzooz is as simple as registering via www.mahzooz.ae and purchasing a bottle of water for just Dhs35.
Each bottle gives participants a one-line entry into the grand draw and another entry into the raffle draw therefore doubling their chances of winning. The top prize of Dhs10,000,000 for matching all five numbers is also up for grabs every week.
Mahzooz means ‘lucky’ in Arabic and luck might smile yet again for all the participants in July as they may win an extra one kilogram gold that’s up for grabs as part of the Mahzooz Golden Summer Draw. The additional draw will be held on 30 July 2022.
Recently, the latest and 25th millionaire of a two-year game-of-chance that has ultra-pleasantly brought the smile to all winners, shall not immediately move back to his home country and is looking forward at providing well for the future of not only his own family but of his parents and sister as well.
He is Reece, who, at 26, is the youngest so far to have bagged the five-number match of 16-18-37-38-40 for the Dhs10 million Mahzooz pot on July 9 (Saturday).
Through all the repeated varied questions by the media on how he would spend the “incredible amount of money” that landed on his and his would-be bride’s lap before their scheduled July 14 (Thursday) wedding in Dubai, the manager of a popular gym in the emirate said he definitely would keep his “day job,” grateful for his employers who “have helped me to be the person I am today.