An Albury man has remained surprisingly cool, calm and collected after discovering he had snagged more than $100,000 in yesterday’s Lucky Lotteries draw.
The New South Wales resident held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot, draw 10890, drawn Thursday 7 November 2024.
In addition to his $100,000 bounty, the winning man scored a consolation prize of $1,000, boosting his total lottery loot to $101,000.
“That’s so cool!” the winning man laughed when officials from The Lott revealed his prize.
“I guess I could take the rest of the week off work!
“I’ve been playing Lucky Lotteries for around 10 years, and I’ve never won anything so that’s why I’m keeping my cool.
“I know it will go straight towards paying off my house, so that’s a great feeling.
“I’ve also got some travel planned at the end of the year, so I’ll put it towards that too.
“It’s all a bit surreal.
“Maybe it will sink in a bit later.”
His winning entry of 10 consecutive numbers was purchased via The Lott app – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $3.16 million for draw 1691, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $6.61 million for draw 10891.
In FY24, 147 Lucky Lotteries 1st Prize and Jackpot winning entries across Australia won more than $53.4 million.
Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot and Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot are raffle-style games, which means there is a set number of tickets in each draw. As each ticket number is unique there is no sharing of prizes.
Each game has two draws – one that determines the winning numbers and one that determines the jackpot number. If the jackpot number matches one of the winning numbers, then the Jackpot Prize is won. If the jackpot number does not match one of the winning numbers, the Jackpot Prize will climb for the next draw.
Tickets can be purchased at any licenced lottery outlet, online from thelott.com or via The Lott mobile app.
The official home of Australia’s lotteries, The Lott operates and markets Australia’s leading lottery games customers know and love creating everyday winners, winning every day.
In FY24, more than 132.8 million winners took home more than $4.4 billion in prize money from their favourite games at The Lott, including Saturday Lotto, Weekday Windfall, Powerball, Oz Lotto, Set for Life, Lucky Lotteries, Keno (SA), Super 66, Lotto Strike and Instant Scratch-Its.
Last financial year, Australia’s official lotteries contributed more than $1.8 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and education.