A Burleigh Heads couple can’t wait to finally visit family and friends overseas after scoring a $25,000 top prize on their Instant Scratch-Its ticket.
The duo’s $2 Our Backyard Instant Scratch-Its ticket was purchased from Nextra Burleigh Town News, Stockland Burleigh Heads, 149 West Burleigh Road, Burleigh Heads.
“This is a dream come true. It’s just fantastic,” the winning man confessed when speaking to an official from The Lott.
“We won $10 on a ticket so bought five $2 Instant Scratch-Its. But we didn’t get around to playing them until breakfast the following day.
“My wife actually scratched the winning ticket.
“She’s quite the character and has a habit of pulling my leg. But I could see she was quite serious.
“When I looked, I said, ‘Goodness gracious me! We have won!’.
“We’ve got all sorts of plans going through our minds at the moment.
“But we’re not going to do anything hasty.
“We’re thinking we might go overseas to see family and friends. We’ve been wanting to do that for a while and now we can.”
In FY22, there were 139 Instant Scratch-Its top prize winners across The Lott’s jurisdictions who collectively took home more than $14.51 million in top prizes.
During this same time, Instant Scratch-Its players enjoyed more than 28.7 million wins across all prize tiers worth more than $261 million. This equates to almost three-quarters of a million dollars won on Instant Scratch-Its every day.
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In FY22, more than 133.5 million winners took home more than $3.93 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 $1.6 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and education.
