Tipp's scratch card success

The National Lottery has compiled a definitive list of Ireland’s luckiest counties when it comes to winning the top prize when playing scratch cards. This analysis shows that Tipperary is the second luckiest county with 19 players claiming top prizes worth €1,645,000 in winnings from scratch cards. 

 

Since 2015, there have been a total of 402 winners who have won top tier prizes, which are the maximum cash prizes on a given scratch card game, worth a massive total of €22,565,000 when playing National Lottery scratch card games.
 

Scratch card players in Dublin came out on top with 102 players winning more than €5.3 million in top tier prizes. Tipperary came in second place followed by Cork, in third with €1,580,000 won by 39 individual players. Wexford and Kildare round off the top five with total top prize scratch card wins of €1,415,000 and €1,385,000 respectively. The full county by county stats can be viewed below.
 

Ahead of Father’s Day on Sunday 16th June, the National Lottery has launched a brand new €5 scratch card game, ‘Golden 4’s & Silver 5’s’ which contains four top prizes of €45,000 with a total prize fund of over €4 million.