A Biggera Waters man has confessed he’d never won anything in his life before bagging $100,000 in today’s Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw.
The Gold Coast man won the guaranteed 1st Prize of $100,000 in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10621, drawn Friday 22 July 2022.
Confirming his incredible windfall with an official from The Lott, the shocked winner shared the win had made his Friday afternoon.
“Oh my gosh! I’m absolutely stoked with this! Thanks mate!” he proclaimed.
“What a way to walk into the weekend.
“I play Lucky Lotteries a couple of times a week, but I never expect that I’ll win anything.
“In fact, I don’t think I’ve won anything in my life!
“I’m in a state of shock at the moment, but this means so much to me.
“I’ll bank the win but not before I look into booking a trip overseas in the very near future.
“To spend a few months trekking across different countries sounds like a dream to me – I can’t believe I’ll be able to do it now.”
His winning entry of 10 random was purchased online at thelott.com – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $12.53 million for draw 1583, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $19.655 for draw 10622.
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.
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 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 Saturday Gold Lotto, Monday & Wednesday Gold 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.