UAE Lottery Winners, October 2026: AED 5 Million Won

The UAE Lottery paid one AED 5 million prize in October 2026: to a Sharjah resident who matched all six Days in the draw of 3 October. Across the month’s nine Lucky Day draws, 51,839 entries won, but the AED 30 million Grand Prize was not won.

This report uses the official results published by The UAE Lottery for every Lucky Day draw from 3 to 31 October, and the winner details reported by the UAE press.

News · Published 29 October 2026

October 2026 at a Glance

These are the prizes won in the nine Lucky Day draws held between 3 and 31 October 2026, counted from the lottery’s own results tables:

Take away the single AED 5 million prize and the month looks like any other: about 5,800 winning entries per draw, and 99% of them won AED 100.

The AED 5 Million Winner of 3 October

In Lucky Day draw No. 261003 on Saturday 3 October 2026, the Days drawn were 4, 5, 12, 14, 17 and 18, and the Month was 10. One entry matched all six Days but not the Month, which made it the only second-prize winner of the night: as the prize is shared between winning entries, a single winner takes the full AED 5 million. The same draw produced one AED 100,000 winner, 54 winners of AED 1,000 and 7,966 winners of AED 100 — the busiest draw of the month, with 8,025 winning entries.

The lottery published the winner’s first name, Kishore. According to the Khaleej Times, he is Kishore Pandurang Rao, an Indian resident of Sharjah who first came to the UAE in 1993. He bought a single AED 50 entry on the lottery’s online platform, let the Easy Pick option choose his numbers, and won five days before his 60th birthday. He told the paper he wants to apply for a UAE Golden Visa, bring his family together and travel with his wife.

Missing the Month by one number cost him AED 25 million: with the Month as well, the same entry would have won the AED 30 million Grand Prize. The chance of the second prize is about 1 in 803,216 per entry, and of the Grand Prize about 1 in 8,835,372.

Every AED 5 Million Winner Since December 2025

The AED 5 million second prize was introduced in December 2025, when the Grand Prize was cut from AED 100 million to AED 30 million. Kishore is the fourth winner since then, according to the winners published by the lottery and reported by Gulf News and the Khaleej Times:

Matching six Days is about eleven times more likely than matching six Days and the Month, so second prizes should come up more often than Grand Prizes. Over the same period two entries won the Grand Prize, which makes six entries in all that matched the six Days — too few for the split between the two prizes to mean much.

Draw-by-Draw Results in October

The winning numbers and the number of winners at each level, as published by The UAE Lottery:

“All winners” includes the three Lucky Chance prizes of every draw and the AED 5 million winner of 3 October. Five of the eight AED 100,000 prizes fell in the first two weeks of the month; after four draws without one from 17 October, three entries won it in the last draw, on 31 October.

The AED 100 prize goes to any entry that matches the Month with up to three Days, so how many people win it depends largely on how many entries chose the Month that was drawn. A busier draw therefore does not show that more entries were sold, a figure the lottery does not publish.

Lucky Chance Winners in October

Every Lucky Day entry carries a Lucky Chance ID, and three IDs are drawn in each draw, each winning AED 50,000 whatever the numbers on the entry. That makes it the only prize paid in every draw. These are the 27 IDs drawn in October:

Only an exact ID wins: there is no prize for a near match. Entries bought online are checked automatically, and the ID is shown in your account and printed on paper tickets.

Pick 3 and Pick 4: The Last Ten Nights

The daily games are much smaller. Pick 3 and Pick 4 are drawn every night and pay fixed prizes, and the official results page keeps the last ten draws of each. From 19 to 28 October 2026 they produced these winners:

That is 75 winning Pick 4 entries and 145 winning Pick 3 entries in ten nights, against thousands of Lucky Day winners in every draw. One night stands out: in the Pick 3 draw of Wednesday 21 October, 21 entries had played 7-8-6 in the exact order and each won AED 2,500 — more than half of the ten nights’ Exact winners in a single draw. Because these prizes are fixed rather than shared, a popular number costs the lottery more but does not reduce what each winner receives.

In Pick 3 and Pick 4 the order of the digits matters only for Exact plays. Our results page explains the Exact and Any play types and the chance of winning each.

Why No One Has Won AED 30 Million Since July

The Grand Prize has been won twice since it became AED 30 million: by Tayab Khan, a Nepalese resident of Abu Dhabi, on 27 May 2026, and by Sunil Kumar Sadasivan on 1 July 2026. Before the change, Anilkumar Bolla won the only AED 100 million prize, on 18 October 2025. Since 1 July there have been more than 30 Lucky Day draws without a Grand Prize winner.

That is not a sign that the prize is harder to win now. Each entry has the same 1 in 8,835,372 chance in every draw, and the draws do not remember earlier results: a run without a winner does not make a win in the next draw more likely. The prize is a fixed AED 30 million, shared if more than one entry matches, so a long run without a winner does not make it grow either.

Most October Winners Won AED 100

Of the 51,839 winning entries in October, 51,294 won the AED 100 fifth prize — the price of two entries. Only 518 entries won AED 1,000 or more from the numbers, plus the 27 Lucky Chance winners. Spread over a month, the large prizes are rare even when they happen: one AED 5 million winner, eight AED 100,000 winners and 509 winners of AED 1,000.

This is how the game is designed. Our UAE Lottery guide shows that an AED 50 entry returns about 40% of its cost on average before the Lucky Chance raffle, and explains the odds of each prize.

How to Check Your Numbers and Claim

Entries bought online or in the Botim app are checked automatically, and smaller prizes appear in your account. Paper tickets from an ADNOC Retail Express point or the Musaffah store should be kept until you have checked them. For larger prizes, the lottery contacts the winner and checks the identity document used to register before paying; it never charges a fee to release a prize. Our UAE Lottery results page shows the latest Lucky Day, Pick 3 and Pick 4 numbers, and our guide explains the claim process step by step.

Next Draws and Play Responsibly

Lucky Day is drawn every Wednesday and Saturday at 9:30pm UAE time, and Pick 3 and Pick 4 every night at the same time. The first Lucky Day draw of November is on Wednesday 4 November 2026, and its results and those that follow go on our results page. The UAE Lottery is run by The Game LLC, the only lottery licensed by the GCGRA, and is open to players aged 18 or over.

Kishore’s own advice to other players was simple: “Everyone should know their own limits. They should set a limit on how much they spend.” Decide your weekly budget before you buy, and do not buy extra entries to win back money. If gambling is causing you or someone close to you difficulty, our guide to responsible gambling lists free, confidential support.

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