Digital lottery ticket sales began through the Paotang mobile app on Thursday morning and proved an instant hit, Government Lottery Office director Noon Sansanakhom said.
The GLO started selling digital lottery tickets at 6am on June 2 at the retail price of 80 baht each.
As of 11am, nearly 500,000 tickets had been sold, snapped up by more than 110,000 buyers. On average, each buyer bought four or five tickets.
Tickets with the same six-digit numbers had been sold out.
Lt Col Noon said digital tickets were now available for purchase every day from 6am to 11pm or until 2pm on the 1st and 16th of every month, when the lottery is drawn. A total of 5.27 million tickets would be offered for purchase for each lottery draw. Each person could buy an unlimited number of tickets.
