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Announcements of the IradLoto press service: new games and series, the draw calendar, record jackpots and the yearly results, newest first.
2026
The Altın Bayge jackpot reached 6,325,000 som, the largest in the game's history, for the must-be-won draw No. 761 on 31 October. Nobody matched all six numbers, so the jackpot rolled down: three tickets with five numbers win…
In 2027 IradLoto will hold 52 Altın Bayge draws (every Saturday from 2 January to 25 December), 104 Joguru! draws (Wednesdays and Sundays), and a Tört Tuyak draw and a Chabysh race every day. Draws on public holidays are held as…
The new Tyin Akyel series goes on sale on 20 October: 20 som a card, 450,000 cards printed. Each of the three top prizes is a two-year-old Akyel from the Akyel Syndicate's stud, with pedigree papers and a year's stabling paid, or…
Nobody matched six numbers in Altın Bayge draw No. 744 on 4 July, so the jackpot of 6,169,000 som rolled down: five tickets with five numbers win 648,570 som each and 218 tickets with four numbers 15,420 som each.
In 2025 players bought 23,122,000 lines in the draw games for 137.7 million som, the highest sales since the lottery began. The Sport and Youth Fund received 27.5 million som and the ISEZ budget 13.8 million.
2025
A new series of Tyin instant tickets, Tyin Bayram, goes on sale on 1 January 2026: 10 som a card, ten top prizes of 50,000 som, 500,000 cards printed. The series is on sale until 30 June 2026.
A week after the must-be-won draw of 15 November (6,121,000 som shared among three tickets with five numbers), draw No. 712 on 22 November had a jackpot winner of 1,384,000 som.
In 2024 IradLoto transferred 25.7 million som to the Sport and Youth Fund from 128.6 million som of draw-game sales. The Fund's grants for the year went to school sports grounds, fields for the horse games in the districts, kit…
2024
For the first time two Altın Bayge jackpots have been won within a month: 3,215,000 som in draw No. 639 on 29 June, on a ticket from a lottery kiosk in Iyık Janyl, and 2,018,000 som in draw No. 643 on 27 July, on a ticket from a…
In 2023 players bought 20,947,000 lines in the draw games for 125.5 million som. The Sport and Youth Fund received 25.1 million som and the ISEZ budget 12.6 million.
2023
Twenty-six new terminals have been installed this summer, most of them in district post offices and Torgoy shops in Sary-Bulak and Lower Naryn districts. IradLoto now has some 1,100 points of sale.
From 11 March 2023 IradLoto draws a race every evening at 19:30 between twelve horses that belong to the lottery. The ball machine draws the finishing order before the Draw Commission, and the race is then shown to match it.
2022
Draw No. 559 on 17 December has one jackpot winner: the ticket was sold at an IradLoto kiosk at Bazar-i Kalan, Talas. It is the first Altın Bayge jackpot won outright since 2016.
The Joguru! jackpot passed 2,000,000 som for the first time, and draw No. 831 on 13 February was a must-be-won draw. Nobody matched all five numbers, so the jackpot of 2,036,000 som rolled down: 20 tickets with four numbers win…
2021
In 2020 players bought 18,414,000 lines for 110.2 million som, the first year above 100 million. The Sport and Youth Fund received 22.0 million som.
2020
Under the quarantine regime the draws continue in the IradOne studio without guests; the member of the public on the Draw Commission takes part by video link and signs the record the next morning.
2019
IradLoto's third draw game, Tört Tuyak ("four hooves"), starts on 1 September 2019. Pick 4 numbers from 1 to 20; draws every day at 21:00. A line costs 3 som; all four numbers win a fixed 5,000 som, three numbers 50 som.
2018
Two new sets of draw balls were weighed and measured by the Iradstandart metrology laboratory and sealed before the Draw Commission on 1 June. They replace the two sets in use since 2012.
2017
From 1 December 2017 retailers must ask for an identity document from any buyer who looks under 25, may not sell on credit and must display the helpline number at every terminal (order No. 9-p of 20 November 2017).
In 2016 players bought 9,739,000 lines in the draw games for 76.3 million som. Half went to prizes, and the Sport and Youth Fund received 15.3 million som.
2016
All draws will be held as scheduled over the New Year: Altın Bayge on Saturday 31 December at 20:30 and Joguru! on Sunday 1 January. The office and the Prize Payment Office are closed on 1 and 2 January.
In draw No. 231 on Saturday 3 September a single ticket bought at a Torgoy shop in Nurzhan matched all six numbers and wins the jackpot of 4,707,000 som, the largest Altın Bayge prize ever won by one ticket.