A Hervey Bay man, already restless and struggling to sleep, found yet another reason to stay wide awake after checking his Weekday Windfall ticket and uncovering a $1 million win.
The Fraser Coast resident held the only division one winning entry nationally in Weekday Windfall, drawn Friday 18 October 2024 and looks forward to a neat $1 million.
The Queenslander confessed he'd been "stressing" all weekend, unable to shake the disbelief that he might actually be holding a winning ticket worth $1 million.
“Woo-hoo! Thank you very much!” he laughed.
“I’ve been stressing all weekend. I kept thinking to myself, ‘Is it real? How do I receive the prize?’.
“I couldn’t sleep in the wee hours of the morning, and I decided to have a look at my Weekday Windfall ticket.
“I couldn’t believe it. I think I’ve looked at the ticket about 100 times.
“I woke my wife up shortly after that. It was 3.30am and she wasn’t having a bar of it. She didn’t believe it.
“I’m still in complete disbelief.”
With his bank account about to be boosted, the excited man shared he had already developed plans for his prize.
“I’ll probably put it towards a new car and pay off the mortgage,” he revealed.
“I’d love to buy a large ute. One that I can put a caravan on.
“What a shock to the system!”
His winning 5-game QuickPick entry was purchased via The Lott app – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The winning numbers in Weekday Windfall draw 4457 on Friday 18 October 2024 were 29, 28, 30, 4, 37 and 42, while the supplementary numbers were 41 and 19.
Across Australia, there was one division one winning entry in Weekday Windfall draw 4457 – one in Queensland.
The Lott’s division one winning tally has now reached 364 so far in 2024, including 72 won by Golden Casketcustomers.
In FY24, Weekday Windfall (formerly Monday & Wednesday Lotto) created 98 millionaires across Australia.
During this time, there were 108 division one winning Weekday Windfall (formerly Monday & Wednesday Lotto) entries across Australia, which collectively won $107 million.
