Tay Ninh Lottery Company

About Tay Ninh Lottery Company

Tay Ninh Lottery Company is the provincial lottery operator for Tay Ninh, a province in southern Vietnam that shares a long border with Cambodia. It is one of the country's traditional provincial lottery companies, the kind that sell paper tickets through a network of local agents rather than through a national terminal system.

The company's tickets are sold at lottery agents and retail points across Tay Ninh province¹. That is the whole distribution model: you buy from a licensed seller, usually a small shop or a street vendor with an official agency sign, and you hold a paper ticket. There is no Tay Ninh Lottery app, no online account and no way to buy a Tay Ninh ticket from a website.

This matters because Vietnam's rules on how lottery tickets may be sold are strict. Tickets are sold directly to customers or through the licensed lottery agent system, and online, telephone and electronic sales channels are prohibited². So if you see a website or a social media page offering to sell you a Tay Ninh ticket, it is not an official channel. Vietlott, Vietnam's computerized lottery, makes the same point to its own customers: buy at official sales points and through official channels only, and treat anything else with suspicion³.

Tay Ninh is also one of the provinces where Vietlott sales points operate, so if you are in the province and want a computerized game instead of a paper ticket, that option exists too⁴. But the two are separate products from separate operators. A Tay Ninh Lottery ticket is the traditional provincial game.

Who can play

The eligibility rule is broader than many visitors assume. To take part in the Tay Ninh self-selected lottery, you must be a Vietnamese citizen, an overseas Vietnamese, or a foreigner legally admitted into Vietnam¹.

In plain terms: if you entered Vietnam legally, with a visa or under a visa exemption, you can buy and hold a Tay Ninh ticket. You do not need to be a resident, and you do not need Vietnamese citizenship. A tourist on a valid entry stamp is covered by the same rule as a long-term expat.

There is no minimum age stated in the Tay Ninh rules themselves, but Vietnam's general lottery framework treats lottery participation as an adult activity, and the practical position across Vietnamese lottery products is that players must be 18 or older. If you look young, expect an agent to ask. Bring your passport if you plan to buy, because you will need it later if you win.

The rule that trips people up is not who may play but how the ticket is bought. Because online and telephone sales are prohibited², a foreigner who cannot get to a Tay Ninh agent cannot legally buy a Tay Ninh ticket at all. There is no workaround through an app.

Tickets and how to buy them

Buying a Tay Ninh ticket is a face-to-face transaction. Here is how it works in practice.

1. Find a licensed agent or retail point in Tay Ninh province. These are the small lottery stalls and shops you see on streets and at markets, usually with a sign identifying them as an official agent¹.
2. Ask for a Tay Ninh ticket. Agents sell the current draw's tickets, and on Thursdays they sell Tay Ninh specifically.
3. Pay in cash. The Tay Ninh rules list cash or bank transfer as the payment methods for lottery transactions¹, but in practice a street agent takes cash.
4. Take the paper ticket and keep it safe. It is a bearer document. Whoever holds it can claim against it.

The self-selected element in the game's name refers to the fact that you can choose your own numbers rather than accept a pre-printed set. If you have a set of numbers you like, tell the agent and they will issue a ticket with those numbers. If you have no preference, take a ticket as printed.

Tickets are cheap by any standard, which is part of why the provincial lottery is so widely played in Vietnam. The exact price is printed on the ticket and set by the operator, so check the ticket itself rather than relying on a remembered figure.

One practical warning: because online sales are prohibited², any website, app or chat channel claiming to sell you a Tay Ninh ticket is operating outside the rules. You would have no official ticket, no verifiable claim and no recourse if the numbers came up. Buy in person from an agent.

Draw schedule and results

Tay Ninh draws once a week, on Thursday. Vietnam's traditional provincial lottery does not give each weekday to a single province: several provinces draw on the same day, and Thursday is the day when An Giang, Binh Thuan and Tay Ninh all hold their draws¹.

The full weekly schedule, so you know which provinces draw when:

That schedule is set by the operators' own game rules¹. If you are in Tay Ninh on a Thursday, you are in the right place at the right time. If you are elsewhere in southern Vietnam, you can still buy the Tay Ninh ticket from an agent, but the draw is still Thursday.

Results are published after the draw. The company's website carries them, and Vietnamese lottery result sites republish the full provincial results each evening. You can also take your ticket to a lottery agent and have it checked. Vietlott, for comparison, lets players scan tickets at checkwin machines at points of sale⁶, but the traditional provincial system is more old-fashioned: you read the numbers or ask the agent.

If you want to follow results from outside Vietnam, the published result tables list the province code TN alongside the winning numbers, so you can confirm you are looking at the right draw.

Prize tiers and payouts

The traditional provincial lottery pays across a set of prize tiers, from a special first prize down to a consolation prize for matching the last digits. The structure is standard across Vietnam's provincial lotteries, and Tay Ninh follows it.

What you actually win depends on how many of your chosen numbers match the drawn numbers, and at which position. The top prize goes to a ticket matching all the drawn digits in the main prize. Lower tiers pay for matching the final one or two digits, which is why almost every ticket has some chance of a small return.

Two things are worth knowing before you count on a figure.

First, prizes are paid after personal income tax on lottery winnings is deducted, as prescribed by Vietnamese tax rules¹. The amount you are handed is net. Vietnam's lottery framework requires winners to fully meet their tax obligations under tax law⁷, and the operator withholds before payment.

Second, the payout is not instant. Once you submit a valid claim, the operator must pay no later than five days from receipt of the prize claim request¹. So a Thursday win is typically in your hands within about a week of claiming, not the same afternoon.

For a broader picture of how Vietnamese lottery prizes are structured and taxed, including the computerized games, see How to Claim a Lottery Prize in Vietnam.

How to claim a prize

The claim window is the single most important number on this page: 30 days from the date the results are determined, meaning the draw date¹. Miss it and the ticket is worthless. Vietnam's lottery regulations set the same 30-day period from the date the winning results are determined or from the date the ticket's circulation period expires⁷.

Here is the process.

1. Check your ticket against the published Tay Ninh result for the correct Thursday draw.
2. Keep the ticket intact. Do not fold it across the numbers, do not tape it, do not laminate it.
3. Bring the winning ticket and proof that you meet the eligibility conditions. Vietnam's rules require winners to present the winning ticket and documents proving they are within the eligible group⁸. For a foreigner, that means your passport and your entry stamp or visa.
4. Submit the claim to the operator. Payment follows no later than five days after the claim is received¹.
5. Receive payment in cash or by bank transfer¹.

If you cannot claim in person, you can use a proxy, but the paperwork is specific. A prize claim by proxy requires a written document confirmed by the local authority where the winner resides¹. In practice that means going to the commune, ward or town office where you live and getting the authorization stamped. For a short-stay visitor this is impractical, so plan to claim in person.

Damaged tickets

The damaged ticket rule is strict and worth reading twice. A ticket that is burned or torn losing more than 20 percent of its area at any position is not paid¹. Vietnam's ticket conditions go further: a ticket presented for payment must remain intact, at its original size, not torn apart, not patched, not erased and not altered, and it must be within the claim period⁷.

So the practical advice is simple. Once you have bought a Tay Ninh ticket, treat it like cash. Put it somewhere flat and dry. Do not carry it loose in a pocket with keys. If it gets wet, let it dry flat rather than ironing or pressing it.

If a ticket is damaged but the essential parts are readable, some lottery operators will still pay after verification. Thailand's Government Lottery Office, for example, pays on a damaged ticket if the code can be read or the ticket can be clearly proven to be a winner, and asks holders to bring it to the office for verification before 14:00⁹. That is a Thai rule, not a Vietnamese one, but it shows the general principle: readable and provable is better than perfect, and unreadable is fatal. Do not rely on it. Keep the ticket clean.

What to expect on the day

If you are in Tay Ninh on a Thursday, the day has a rhythm. Agents sell tickets through the day. The draw happens in the afternoon, and results circulate in the evening. If your numbers come up, you do not collect that night; you claim, and payment follows within five days¹.

For a visitor, the realistic sequence is: buy a ticket from an agent earlier in the week or on the day, keep it flat, check the Thursday result, and if you have won, take the ticket and your passport to the operator's office to start the claim. Budget for the tax deduction and for the five-day payment window.

If you are comparing Tay Ninh with Vietnam's other lottery options, the computerized games work differently: Vietlott draws run on their own schedules, and Vietlott's claim window is 60 days rather than 30⁶. The traditional provincial game is the cheaper, simpler, more local option, and Tay Ninh's version of it runs every Thursday.