A Gilles Plains man has confessed he’s on cloud nine despite barely sleeping since he discovered his Saturday X Lotto division one win.
The Adelaide resident held one of the six division one winning entries nationally in Saturday X Lotto draw 4551 on Saturday 1 March 2025. Each division one winning entry pocketed $884,118.73.
“Oh mate! I saw it on Saturday night and I haven’t slept since,” the ecstatic man exclaimed when speaking to an official from The Lott.
“I’m not going to cry a river, but I’m so happy. I’m just so happy. Thank you for your call. I’m so happy.
“This is huge for me. I can buy a home, live mortgage free and continue to work.
“You know what, at first, I thought it was a hoax.
“I looked at the ticket and then got down on my knees in front of my partner and screamed, ‘I’ve won $884! Hang on, it’s $8,840. No! It’s $884,000’.
“She said, ‘don’t lie to me!’. I thought she was going to punch me in the face!
“Once we saw it was real, we went out and got two bottles of champagne to celebrate!”
His winning 50-game QuickPick entry was purchased on The Lott website – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The winning numbers in Saturday X Lotto draw 4551 on 1 March 2025 were 13, 11, 37, 12, 3 and 6, while the supplementary numbers were 44 and 2.
Across Australia, there were six division one winning entries in Saturday X Lotto draw 4551 – two from South Australia and one each from Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia.
The Lott’s division one winning tally has now reached 322 so far in FY25, including 36 won by SA Lotteries customers.
In 2024, Saturday X Lotto created 149 millionaires across Australia.
During this time, there were 316 division one winning Saturday X Lotto entries across Australia that collectively won more than $400.2 million.