A Nambucca Heads man is ready to say goodbye to renting and hello to his very own home after scoring $200,000 in a recent Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw.
The mid north coast resident scored the guaranteed 1st Prize of $200,000 in Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw 1651, drawn Tuesday 5 March 2024.
While the winning man missed initial phone calls from The Lott officials, he finally came forward yesterday afternoon after checking his ticket.
“I’m good! Very good!” he laughed.
“Thank you very much. It’s wonderful news.
“I had a few missed phone calls. I often ignore unknown numbers because they’re always suspicious to me.
“Then I saw your email and I thought now this looks more real. I called into The Lott straight away.
“The Lott contact centre asked if I minded holding for a moment. I said ‘Of course not! I've been holding for a moment like this my whole life!’.
“We’re renting right now but we’ve been planning to build a new home. This is going to go a long way to help.
“With any left over, we can share it and continue to spread the joy.
“It’s quite funny actually, we had a friend who said he wants to take my wife and I on a holiday but looks like we’ll be able to take him now as well!”
His 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 $14.2 million for draw 1652, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $10.5 million for draw 10841.
In 2023, 117 Lucky Lotteries 1st Prize and Jackpot winning entries across Australia won more than $20.6 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 2023, more than 122.7 million wins took home more than $3.76 billion in prize money from their favourite games at The Lott, including Saturday Lotto, Monday & Wednesday Lotto, 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 $1.6 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and education.