South Africa, Dec. 12 -- New prize structure

The case centred on Ithuba's television commercial and an accompanying post on X, both of which promoted the Lotto's updated number pool and new prize structure. The ads claimed "more balls to choose", "better odds", "4x more chances to win", and "more numbers to choose from. that's better overall odds".

Two consumers argued that these claims were deceptive. They said that adding more numbers mathematically decreases the chances of winning major prizes, and that the advertisements implied the opposite.

Ithuba argued that its claims referred to "overall odds", meaning the statistical chance of winning any prize, not the jackpot. It said these odds improved significantly after introducing the ...