Big Ticket Series 292: Meena Sareen Wins AED 25 Million

Meena Sareen, an Indian homemaker who lives in Dubai, won the AED 25 million Big Ticket grand prize in Series 292 on 3 November 2026, with ticket 304251 bought online. For the second time this year, every other prize in the series was a 200g gold bar instead of cash.

This report uses Big Ticket’s official winners list, which we read from the UAE on 11 November 2026, the series details published on bigticket.ae, and the winner’s interview with the Khaleej Times. Our own calculations — the value of the gold, the ticket count and the return per ticket — are marked as ours.

News · Published 11 November 2026

Series 292 at a Glance

Series 292 was the October 2026 promotion. Tickets cost AED 500, and the draw for the grand prize and the five runner-up prizes was held live in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday 3 November. These are the prizes it paid, counted from the official list:

Apart from the grand prize, Series 292 paid no cash at all: 21 gold bars went to the five runners-up and the 16 weekly winners, and the three Big Spin prizes will only be known after the December show.

The AED 25 Million Winner

Big Ticket’s list names the winner as Meena Sareen, an Indian national living in Dubai, with ticket 304251 bought through the website. Some press reports spell her name Mina; we use the official spelling. The ticket was drawn on stage by Bernadette Azucena, the Filipina who had won the AED 20 million grand prize of Series 291 a month earlier — as Big Ticket often has the previous grand prize winner do.

According to the Khaleej Times, Sareen is originally from Punjab, a former mathematics teacher who has lived in the UAE for nearly 18 years with her husband. She bought the winning ticket on 18 October and had been taking part for about four years, buying every month for more than a year, and sharing the cost with two other people. She told the paper she plans to give a meaningful part of the prize to charity and to relatives in need. When a ticket is bought by a group, the prize is paid to the named ticket holder, and how it is split is a private matter between the buyers.

She is the eleventh grand prize winner of 2026 and the seventh Indian national among them. AED 25 million is the second-highest grand prize of 2026, also paid in Series 286 and Series 288; only the January draw, Series 282, paid more, with AED 30 million.

Gold Bars Instead of Cash: What They Were Worth

Big Ticket changes the prizes beneath the grand prize from month to month, and in Series 292 it replaced the usual cash runner-up and weekly prizes with 21 bars of 24-carat gold, each weighing 200 grams. It had done the same once before in 2026, in Series 285 in March.

Gold has no fixed price, so the value of a bar depends on the day it is valued. Dubai’s published retail rates for 24-carat gold on 3 November 2026 ranged from about AED 464 to AED 474 a gram. At those rates, one 200g bar was worth roughly AED 93,000 to AED 95,000, and the 21 bars together about AED 1.95 million to AED 1.99 million — our calculation, before any premium a buyer would pay for a minted bar.

That is close to what the previous month paid in cash. In Series 291, the five runner-up prizes were AED 1 million, AED 500,000, AED 250,000 and two of AED 100,000 — AED 1.95 million — and the 16 weekly winners took AED 25,000 each, another AED 400,000. A gold bar is worth more than a single AED 25,000 weekly prize, but far less than the AED 1 million that some months have paid to their runners-up.

Every Series in 2026, Prize by Prize

The table below adds up, from the official list, everything each series paid besides the grand prize. Series 282 is the January draw and Series 292 the November draw; the Big Spin, which first appears in the official list with Series 291, is shown where its result is already known.

The prizes beneath the jackpot are where Big Ticket varies most: from AED 900,000 in Series 289 to AED 6.34 million in Series 283. Checking that part of the prize list before buying says more about a series than the headline grand prize does.

Who Won in Series 292

Counting the grand prize, the five runner-up gold bars and the 16 weekly gold bars, 22 tickets won in Series 292. Sixteen of the winners are Indian nationals, two Filipino, and one each from the UAE, Bangladesh, Oman and Pakistan. Ahmed Al Ketbi of Sharjah, who won the second-prize gold bar, is one of only seven Emirati winners among the 285 prizes listed for the 2026 series.

Most winners live in the UAE — Sharjah alone accounts for eight of the 22 — but not all: the official list records some winners in India and Bahrain, because tickets can be bought online from abroad and the winner does not have to be in the UAE. Twenty-one of the 22 winning tickets were bought on the website; only one weekly winner bought at a Big Ticket counter. In Series 291, by contrast, six of the 22 winning tickets were bought at Big Ticket’s counters.

The Dream Car draw, which is a separate ticket at AED 150, gave a Range Rover Velar (Series 22) to an Indian resident of Al Ain with ticket 025383. The three Big Spin contestants chosen in Series 292 — Mohammad Samir Alam and Abdul Salam of Abu Dhabi, and Keirnan O’Flaherty, a British resident of Abu Dhabi — will spin the wheel at the December show for prizes of up to AED 1 million. The three contestants from Series 291 spun on 3 November and won AED 100,000, AED 100,000 and AED 50,000.

What the Ticket Numbers Say About the Odds

Big Ticket does not publish how many tickets it sells, but the winning ticket numbers set a floor. The highest winning number in Series 292 was 456,880, drawn in the weekly e-draw of 1 November. If tickets are numbered in sequence, as the published numbers suggest, at least that many were in the draw, and one ticket’s chance of the AED 25 million was no better than about 1 in 457,000.

The same floor gives an upper limit on what a ticket was worth. Divide the grand prize and the 21 gold bars, about AED 26.95 million to AED 26.99 million, by 456,880 tickets, and each AED 500 ticket carried at most about AED 59 in prizes, or 11.8% of its price — before the Big Spin, whose three prizes are not yet known. Series 291 works out at about AED 55, or 11%. Every additional ticket sold, including free tickets from multi-buy offers, lowers both figures. Our Big Ticket Abu Dhabi guide explains the method and the odds for every series of 2026.

Series 293: The December Draw

Series 293 is on sale until Monday 30 November 2026 at 11:45pm UAE time, and its live draw is on Thursday 3 December at 7:30pm. According to bigticket.ae, it offers:

• Grand prize: AED 25 million.
• Consolation prizes: five of AED 100,000, paid in cash again after the gold of Series 292.
• Weekly prizes: “4x AED 25K Weekly Prizes”, in Big Ticket’s words.
• Big Spin: three prizes of up to AED 1 million.
• Offer: “Buy 2 Tickets, Get 3 Free!” — five tickets for AED 1,000, or AED 200 a ticket, against the “2+1” offer — one free ticket for every two — described in Big Ticket’s help centre.

The cash beneath the grand prize is lower than in Series 291: AED 500,000 for the runners-up against AED 1.95 million. The extra free tickets make each ticket cheaper for the buyer, but every free ticket also enters the same draw, so the odds of each one winning fall. The two car draws on sale at the same time are a Nissan Patrol (Series 04, drawn on 3 December) and a BMW M440i (Series 33), both at AED 150 a ticket.

How to Check a Ticket and Claim a Prize

Big Ticket publishes its winners on bigticket.ae and in its Winner’s Club, and calls the grand prize winner live during the show. Our Big Ticket results page lists every winner of every draw since 2024, updated after each draw, and our guide explains how to claim a Big Ticket prize.

During the November show, the hosts warned about scammers who pose as Big Ticket staff and ask for personal or bank details. If you receive a call or a message about a win, check it against the official list or Big Ticket’s own social media accounts before replying, and never share card details, passwords or one-time codes.

Is Big Ticket Legal in the UAE?

Yes. Big Ticket is one of the two airport draws — with the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire — that the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA) allowed to continue under its supervision, alongside the UAE Lottery, which holds the country’s only lottery licence. Players must be at least 18, and the draw is open to buyers in the UAE and abroad. Our guide to gambling laws in the UAE explains where Big Ticket fits in the wider framework.

Big Ticket is still a draw: at AED 500 a ticket, the prizes return a small share of what is spent, as the figures above show. Set a monthly budget and keep to it, and see our responsible gambling guide if buying tickets stops being fun.

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