A Ballarat father can’t wait to treat his daughters after discovering he won $100,000 in yesterday’s Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw.
The Victorian man won the guaranteed 1st Prize of $100,000 in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10585, drawn Monday 6 June 2022.
The ticket was unregistered, so officials from The Lott had no way of contacting the ticketholder to deliver the winning news and had to wait for him to come forward to claim his prize.
The winner continues a streak of generous Lucky Lotteries players following a Robina dad who shared he would gift his $100,000 Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot win to his son last month.
Sharing his joy with an official from The Lott this morning, the cheery player said he had never won anything in his life.
“Wow, that’s a bit of a surprise!” he laughed.
“I’m so excited. This is the most I’ve ever won!
“I always play five numbers in Lucky Lotteries draws and yesterday was the day one of those numbers was drawn – how cool.
“I’m going to surprise both of my daughters with the prize. One of them is in desperate need of a new car, and the other needs some renovations done to her house.
“I’ll happily take the title of ‘Father of the year’!
“It’s really cold in Ballarat right now. I wouldn’t mind going on a holiday to sunny Queensland with the win as well!
“Thank you for this winning phone call!”
His winning entry was purchased at Nextra Bridge Mall, 68-70 Bridge Mall, Ballarat.
The Nextra Bridge Mall team is feeling elated to have sold a 1st Prize in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot and wish the winner all the best with their prize.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $10.85 million for draw 1576, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $14.96 million for draw 10586.
In 2021, 127 Lucky Lotteries 1st Prize and Jackpot winning entries across Australia won more than $32.95 million.
During this time, the biggest Lucky Lotteries prize was won by a Coolangatta man who a Mega Jackpot prize of $9.41 million in May.
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.
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In 2021, more than 130.8 million winners took home more than $3.79 billion in prize money from their favourite games at The Lott, including TattsLotto, Monday & Wednesday Lotto, Powerball, Oz Lotto, Set for Life, Lucky Lotteries, Keno, Super 66, Lotto Strike and Instant Scratch-Its.
Last financial year, Australia’s official lotteries contributed more than $1.5 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and education.