THE 40-year-old Singapore Sweep is getting a facelift promising punters a bigger prize money and more chances at winning.
The top prize will be raised from $2 million to $2.2 million, bringing the total prize amount to $5 million, up from the current $4.8 million.
The odds of winning, said Singapore Pools have also improved from 1 in 108 to 1 in 67.
Chief Financial Officer of Singapore Pools, John Teo said: 'We received customer feedback over the last year about the difficulty in matching the numbers on a weekly basis plus scratching the scratch portion, so we've come up with some refinements on the game structure.'
The three weekly draws will be replaced by just one draw every first Wednesday of the month.
Instead of the old scratch and win, to claim the top prize of $2.2 million, seven numbers printed on the ticket must be matched to the winning numbers.
On top of that, there will be two new winning categories: 3D prize and Super Sweep Prize.
Forty-eight thousand $30 3D prizes can be won, but only one lucky player can win the Super Sweep Prize of $300 000.
Singapore Pools said if unclaimed, the Super Sweep jackpot will snowball up till five rounds, giving punters the chance to win up till $1.3 million.
The price of the Singapore Sweep tickets will remain the same at $3, but ticket printing will increase from 3 milion to 3.2 million.
New Singapore Sweep tickets can be bought starting next Thursday.
Football betting made easier
Singapore Pools will also launch a football-betting account called GOAL! which will allow punters to easily bet over the phone.
The initiative is similar to the pre-paid accounts launched during the 2006 World Cup and 2007 Asean Cup season.
Any person above 21 years of age can sign up for a GOAL! account and continue to bet even after gambling outlets have closed.
Punters will need to fork out $250 to open the account, which will last for 14 months.
In making football betting more accessible to the public, Mr Teo stressed that Singapore Pools will adhere to the Responsible Gambling Code of Practice.
'We're not here to promote gambling, we're just giving punters more options.
'We will keep our customers clearly informed about the features of this account. For example, that they are allowed to withdraw the amount and cease betting on the card anytime they wish to and that the top up amount are also kept up to a maximum, not exceeding $1000,' he said.
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