A Warrnambool man has admitted he gave his partner a delightful fright while she was at work, bursting in with the jaw-dropping news they’d won $1.2 million in the weekend’s TattsLotto draw.
The south-west coast locals held one of the four division one winning entries nationally in TattsLotto draw 4527, drawn Saturday 7 December 2024. They look forward to $1,258,663.69.
The winning man checked his ticket on Saturday night and couldn’t believe his eyes, sitting on the incredible news until morning when he surprised his partner at work.
“Haha! I can’t believe it!” he laughed.
“I’m feeling pretty damn good.
"I was sitting down on Saturday night and remembered I had a ticket. I checked it, and when I saw the win, I thought, 'Hang on, that can’t be right!’.
"I triple-checked the ticket just to make sure it was real, and I was like, 'Holy s***!'.
"It was pretty late, and I debated whether to tell my partner straight away over text, but in the end, I decided it would be a lot more fun to surprise her at work the next day.
“I walked into her work, and thankfully no one was there, and she looked at me with confusion on her face.
“She turned to me and said, ‘What are you doing here? You look a bit faint!’.
“I told her, ‘I’ve got something to tell you. We’ve won TattsLotto!’. She instantly replied, ‘You’re kidding! No, we didn’t!’.
“I had to pull out the ticket again and enter the numbers on The Lott website to prove it. Then she said, ‘Oh my f****** god!’.
“She believes me now, and she knows it’s real. But we’re both still in total shock. We don’t know what to do with the prize, but it will certainly go to good use.
“It’s definitely life-changing for us. The best feeling ever!”
Their winning entry was purchased at Timor Street Newsagency, 166 Timor Street, Warnambool.
The winning numbers in TattsLotto draw 4527 on 7 December 2024 were 1, 16, 11, 13, 35 and 7, while the supplementary numbers were 5 and 14.
Across Australia, there were four division one winning entries in TattsLotto draw 4527 – two in New South Wales, and one each in Victoria and Queensland.
The Lott’s division one winning tally has now reached 417 so far in 2024, including 152 won by Tatts customers.
In FY24, TattsLotto created 158 millionaires across Australia.
During this time, there were 292 division one winning TattsLotto entries across Australia that collectively won more than $436 million.