Thai-Swedish couple wins over SEK 40 million in Swedish lottery

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by Gregers Møller

 

The year 2022 is coming off to a good start, to say the least for Thai Wanna Isaksson and her Swedish husband Mikael after the couple recently won a total SEK 41,651,072 million lottery win in one of Sweden’s largest lotteries, Postkodlotteriet.

 

To media SVT, Wanna Isaksson explains that she still can’t believe it is real. 

 

Wanna Isaksson grew up in eastern Thailand in a small village in poor conditions. She worked in a weaving factory and in a factory that assembled electrical parts and then continued to work in hotels as, among other things, a receptionist.

 

Full story: https://scandasia.com/thai-swedish-couple-wins-over-sek-40-million-in-swedish-lottery/

 

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[khunPer]

Better than winning the Thai lottery, 41 million Swedish kroner is little more than 150 million baht, congratulations...????????????????????????????

[RandiRona]

[stigar]

Great story.Im wery happy for them.

[Virt]

Happy for them but not sure I would have gone public with such news.

[ezzra]

And now they will get to know and find out from relatives, friends and old school chums they haven't heard of or seen for years...

[CharlieH]

Always nice to see someone win like this.

 

Although, what happens next is not always a happy ending. It can and has destroyed many relationships and lives.

 

"Money being the root of all evil", as the saying goes.

 

Best of luck to them !

[Misterwhisper]

1 hour ago, Virt said:

Happy for them but not sure I would have gone public with such news.

Exactly.

 

Soon enough their home will be beleaguered by hordes of "long lost friends" who desperately want to re-establish contact in addition to scores of likewise "long lost" family members Wanna can't even remember she had.

[koolkarl]

Divorce coming up.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, khunPer said:

Better than winning the Thai lottery, 41 million Swedish kroner is little more than 150 million baht, congratulations...????????????????????????????

Nice start to the year, should take the sting out of the Covid blues.

[Highend Expat]

4 hours ago, Virt said:

Happy for them but not sure I would have gone public with such news.

Usually the lotteries have implicit contracts that guarantee their right to publish the news as it's good for their continued business. 

[worgeordie]

I bet tickets are sold at the advertised price , how much is a ticket in Sweden ?

regards worgeordie

[kidneyw]

5 hours ago, Virt said:

Happy for them but not sure I would have gone public with such news.

Anyone know there email address?

Just asking for a friend.

[Virt]

26 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

I bet tickets are sold at the advertised price , how much is a ticket in Sweden ?

regards worgeordie

They have different types of lotteries in Sweden.

This type postcode lottery is 170 swedish kroner pr month for 1 ticket.

That's approx 630 baht.

 

Sweden are also a part of the countries that has Euro lotto and Viking lotto

Euro jackpot is the largest ones with 18 countries and the largest reward so far was 571 million danish kroner, which is about 2,8 billion baht.

10 rows of numbers for 1 draw are 750 baht.

 

Expensive and the chance of winning first price is 1 : 95,344,220

 

So in theory you could play 95 million different combinations and win first price, but that would cost 7,1 billion baht, so that's not a good idea ???? 

 

[Virt]

1 hour ago, Highend Expat said:

Usually the lotteries have implicit contracts that guarantee their right to publish the news as it's good for their continued business. 

This is the translation from the Swedish postcode lottery rules.

Not sure what marketing in 4.2 covers.

If the TV announcement are not considered marketing, they might not had a chance to be anonymous.

 

Winner of the Postcode Lottery
4.1 The operator conducts reports on Winners of Winnings in the Lottery which are published on TV and other
media, which means that the Subscriber's name and picture may become public. More
information can be found at www.postkodlotteriet.se.
4.2 The Operator will not use the Winner's name and image in marketing without
before that, have obtained his consent.

[bristolgeoff]

All the new or best family members will be coming out of the woodwork very fast now.Keep it private better

[The Hammer2021]

I wouldn't let it change my life. I would still cycle to work  in the mill everyday.

[The Hammer2021]

10 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Exactly.

 

Soon enough their home will be beleaguered by hordes of "long lost friends" who desperately want to re-establish contact in addition to scores of likewise "long lost" family members Wanna can't even remember she had.

Is that what you did? lol