A Mount Druitt man is struggling to process his unexpected $100,000 win in a today’s Lucky Lotteries draw, admitting he feels oddly blindsided as he never imagined he’d win anything.
The New South Wales resident held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10888, drawn Thursday 31 October 2024 and pocketed $100,000.
When an official from The Lott called to confirm his prize, the gleeful winner shared that despite being overwhelmed by the news, he’d strive to do something good with his prize by looking to help family and friends.
“Wow! I can’t believe it!” the winning man cheered.
“I noticed I had a couple of missed calls from your number and started to get worried.
“I never expected to receive such good news.
“I’ve been playing Lucky Lotteries on and off for a little while now, but I never imagined I’d win.
“I’ve never thought about what I’d do with a win because I genuinely never imagined I would.
“I honestly feel a bit blindsided. Isn’t that funny?!
“Even though I’m overwhelmed, I’ll try to do something good with the money.
“I’ll look to help my family and friends first and foremost.
“I’m going to go to the beach and celebrate for the rest of the day!”
His winning entry of four random numbers was purchased via The Lott app – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $2.92 million for draw 1690, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $6.35 million for draw 10889.
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 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.