A Carnegie man who was busy at work has been interrupted in the best possible way, with a winning phone call revealing he’d won a $100,000 1st Prize in today’s Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw.
The Melbourne resident won the guaranteed 1st Prize of $100,000 in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10588, drawn Friday 10 June 2022.
“My heart is going a million miles an hour!” he laughed when an official from The Lott reached out to reveal his windfall.
“I’ve won $100,000? That’s bloody awesome!
“I’ve even won a free ticket on this entry – the wins keep on rolling!
“What a phone call for my Friday! I’m going into the weekend with the best news.
“You’ve made the end of my working week so much better! Gee, I can’t believe it.
“I must admit, I’m going to surprise my partner when the novelty cheque is delivered by you guys. I won’t tell her straight away, but the win will be worth it!”
When asked how he planned to enjoy his $100,000 win, the victorious Victorian immediately said it would go towards his future.
“We will put it straight towards our nestegg, and eventually do wonderful things with the prize!” he said.
His winning entry of 10 random numbers was purchased online at thelott.com - the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $10.85 million for draw 1576, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $15.48 million for draw 10590.
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 TattsLotto, Monday & Wednesday 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.
