A Pimpama father is set to delight his family with an overseas holiday of a lifetime after he discovered he’d won an Instant Scratch-Its top prize worth $200,000.
The Gold Coast resident’s winning $15 Crosswords Book Instant Scratch-Its ticket was purchased at Eagleby Post Office, Shop 4, Eagleby Shopping Plaza, 142 Fryar Road, Eagleby.
Despite claiming his prize at The Lott Headquarters days earlier, the winning man was still buzzing with excitement while speaking with lottery officials days later.
“I’m honestly still wrapping my head around it all!” he laughed.
“It’s not every day you hear someone win two hundred thousand dollars.
“I’ve always enjoyed buying an Instant Scratch-Its ticket here and there but never expected to win anything this big.
“I’ve decided to surprise my kids with plane tickets and an overseas adventure.
“They don’t know what’s coming!
“It’s always been a dream to take my family overseas.
“Thank you very much!”
Eagleby Post Office owner Suja Junnuri shared she was overjoyed to have sold the outlets first top prize winning Instant Scratch-Its ticket.
“We feel so grateful to have sold the top prize winning ticket and to be able to change one of our customers’ lives,” she said.
“The whole Eagleby community will celebrate the good news—It feels like we’ve all won!
“We wish our winner all the best and hope they have a wonderful Christmas with the prize.”
In FY24, there were 143 Instant Scratch-Its top prize winners across The Lott’s jurisdictions who collectively took home more than $12.12 million in top prizes.
During this same time, Instant Scratch-Its players enjoyed more than 26.4 million wins across all prize tiers worth more than $249.65 million. This equates to more than half a million winners and more than $4.8 million won on Instant Scratch-Its each week.
Every month, Instant Scratch-Its’ 2nd Chance Draw gives you another chance to turn your eligible non-winning Instant Scratch-Its into a winner. Visit thelott.com to enter this month’s 2nd Chance Draw.
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 Gold 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.
