An Alexandria woman’s recent house move took an unexpected turn when she unearthed a forgotten Lucky Lotteries ticket she received as a Christmas gift almost a year ago, only to discover it’s worth more than $100,000.
The New South Wales resident held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10820, drawn Thursday 28 December 2023, and took home a total prize of $102,000.
When speaking with officials from The Lott nearly a year on from her win, the cheery woman thanked her lucky stars for re-uniting her with her winning ticket.
“Oh my goodness!” the winning woman cheered when officials from The Lott revealed her prize.
“It’s an incredible surprise.
“I can’t believe it took me nearly a year to discover my win!
“It’s a funny story - the ticket was a Christmas present from my mum last year, and I only just re-discovered the ticket when I was moving house recently.
“I was clearing out my bedside drawers when I found the ticket.
“Luckily, my intuition told me to keep the ticket and check it.
“Can you imagine if I’d completely forgotten about it?!
“I can’t believe it!
“This has to be the best Christmas present ever!”
Her winning entry was purchased at Eastwood Centre Newsagency, 160 Rowe Street, Eastwood.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $3.16 million for draw 1691, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $6.48 million for draw 10890.
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.