When Rizal became an exile at Dapitan, he received a good news about his lottery ticket. He won the 2nd prize amount of P6, 200 (too surprising when you have this cash at his time because it was like equivalent amounting to P100, 000) in a Spanish lottery (1892). This was because of his avid player of lottery way back at Madrid, Spain while he was studying at the Unibersidad Central de Madrid. He was never drink liquor or smoked but fond of lotto tickets! Addict indeed!
"This was his only vice," said Wenceslao E. Retana, Rizal's first Spanish biographer and former enemy.
According to other website www.dapitan.com, on Sept. 21, 1892 the mail boat Butuan was approaching the town of Dapitan carrying lottery ticket No. 9736 jointly owned by Captain Carnicero, Dr. Rizal and Francisco Equilior (a Spanish resident of Dipolog, a neighboring town of Dapitan), which won the second prize of P20,000 in the government-owned Manila lottery.
With big cash, he gave P2,000 to his father and P200 to his friend Jose Basa in Hong Kong and then purchase a land in Talisay, which was more than 70 hectares agricultural land where he constructed his nipa house, with a veranda at front and one of the side of his house. There he invested and spent his humanitarian activities and service for the benefit of the townmen such as building his first school and clinic.
The lottery during the time of Rizal used the traditional manually operated tambiolo where numbers were drawn for the winning combinations.
The principle of the lottery remains the same, but different as of now. The modern technology in our country is so easy and fast. Like the PCSO (The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office) is now fully automated game and computerized where Filipinos always grab the chance for any undetermined probability of winning prize money that they only wish for. Their dreaming lucky digits which believed to be the lucky chances. The draw is aired live on television and people have access to the online results nationwide. No one can cheat the system of lottery of PCSO because you know it's so modernized and clean.
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