An Emerald man has confessed he nearly fell off his chair in shock after discovering he’d snagged a 1st Prize win worth $200,000 in yesterday’s Lucky Lotteries draw.
The Central Highlands resident held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw 1695, drawn Thursday 23 January 2025, and pocketed a total of $200,000.
When an official from The Lott called to reveal his prize, the winning man shared he was completely oblivious to his newfound treasure and said nothing could wipe the smile off his face.
“No way! This is crazy!” he exclaimed.
“I’ll be honest, I nearly fell off my chair when you said how much I’ve won.
“These sorts of things don’t happen to a man like me.
“I’ve just yelled out to my wife, and she is running around the house like a mad woman.
“We’re going to be able to get all the things sorted now. All our little problems will be sorted.
“You’re not going to be able to wipe this smile off my face for the rest of the day.
“Thank you for the great news to kick off 2025!”
His winning entry of one number was purchased from newsXpress Central Highlands, Shop 26 Central Highlands Market Place, 2-10 Codenwarra Road, Emerald.
newsXpress Central Highlands owner Sally Murphy shared it was a great surprise to hear a 1st Prize-winning entry worth $200,000 had landed in her town.
“What a great surprise it was for all of our team to hear that we had sold another 1st Prize,” she said.
“It doesn’t happen every day, but it is very exciting to hear a big prize coming to our little country town.
“It will certainly create a lot of excitement around town with locals wondering who the lucky winner is and what they are going to do with their newfound wealth.
“We just love the buzz that it creates within our store and around our community and we are looking forward to doing it again this Tuesday night. Come into newsXpress Central Highlands and get your chance to win $70 million. You never know, it could be your turn next!
“A huge congratulations to our very deserving winner. Enjoy fulfilling all your dreams that this win will help make possible for you and your family.”
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $4.36 million for draw 1696, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $10.38 million for draw 10920.
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 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.