A Carnegie man is thanking his lucky stars after a spontaneous Lucky Lotteries ticket landed him a life-enhancing $100,000 win.
The Glen Eira local held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10896, drawn Wednesday 27 November 2024 and looks forward to a total prize of $100,000.
When officials from The Lott revealed his glorious win, the stunned man confessed he’d only purchased a handful of lottery tickets in his lifetime and decided to purchase his winning ticket on a whim.
“Is this for real?!” he laughed.
“I’m shaking right now.
“Oh my god! This is just amazing!
“I bought this ticket on a whim, so I’m completely gobsmacked.
“This is big news to receive on a random Wednesday.
“I’m not sure I’ll be able to focus for the rest of the day at work.”
With $100,000 soon to boost his bank account, the generous man revelled in the thought of spoiling his family rotten this festive season.
“I think I’ll finally be able to buy my family presents they’ll love,” he shared.
“They’re not going to know what hit them.
“I’m still a bit overwhelmed so I’ll have to think about the rest.”
His winning entry of one random number was purchased on The Lott website – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $3.40 milion for draw 1692, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $7.39 million for draw 10897.
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 TattsLotto, 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.