page_title: Mark Six
section_title: The game
hierarchical_section_title: Mark Six / The game
context_page_description: Mark Six is a lottery game organised by the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
context_section_description: The game is a 6-out-of-49 lottery-style game, with seven prize levels. The winning numbers are selected automatically from a lottery machine that contains balls with numbers 1 to 49. Unlike other lottery drawings that feature a separate lottery machine for the final number, such as Mega Millions, the final number for each Mark Six drawing, known as the special number in Chinese (Chinese: 特別號碼) and the extra number in English, is drawn out of the same machine as the other five numbers drawn.
  If nobody wins the 1st and 2nd prizes, the money that would have been paid out for the prizes will be added to a Jackpot (多寶獎) in the next draw. If there are winners of the first prize, these winners take the jackpot fund as well. If again there is no winner, the process continues until there is, and in such cases 1st division winnings can build up to about HKD$100 million (compared to the normal HKD$8 million 1st division prize), as seen several times in 2004, 2005, 2016.
  For each draw, a certain percentage (see below for details) of the entry money is deducted and placed into a Snowball Pool. On selected draws, the Snowball Pool is added to the 1st division prize as well. These draws are known as Snowball Draws (金多寶). The HKJC decides which draws are snowball draws. Usually the date is chosen to match a public holiday or festival, and the draw is named accordingly.
  These draws are very popular due to their large 1st division prizes.
  Each unit of numbers costs HK$10, which, following a big price cut in 1976 and subsequent price increases over the years, is at the same level as when the first drawing was held in 1975.
caption: The back of a used Mark Six ticket
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