A Moone Ponds couple has confessed to crying tears of joy after discovering they were now over $1.3 million richer from winning division one in Saturday’s TattsLotto draw.
The couple’s entry was one of the three division one winning entries nationally in TattsLotto draw 3897, drawn on Saturday, November 24 2018. Each entry took home a division one prize of $1,364,143.36.
As well as winning the coveted division one prize, their winning entry also won division three 18 times and division four 45 times, bolstering their total prize to $1,383,579.76.
“It’s been a bit of a shock! Let me say!” the winning wife exclaimed when speaking to a Tatts official this morning.
“My husband checked the ticket Sunday morning when he went out to grab some coffees.
“He rang me in tears and I said ‘what’s happened?’ and he said ‘are you sitting down? Can you please sit down?’ and he was crying.
“I thought ‘oh my god, what’s happened?’ and he told me ‘we’ve won $1.3 million!’
“I actually broke down and cried. The kids had thought someone had died after the reaction we both had!
“It was an incredible piece of news!”
The happy winner recounted the unusual circumstances around the couple’s winning entry.
“The whole course of events was quite interesting!” the happy winner explained.
“He bought the ticket at Puckle St Nextra, which has recently moved to a new address. As he walked out he said to himself ‘I wonder who their first division one winner will be?’.
“It’s just bizarre! He also told me that he saw our neighbour’s cat outside our house.
“Whenever he goes out and there is a cat there, he has a bit of a win!
“He hadn’t seen the cat for a while, and he walked out the other day, saw the cat and said ‘come on cat, when am I going to win?’.
“Then bam-o! We got the bloody big one on the weekend!”
When asked how they planned to spend their TattsLotto windfall, the happy couple revealed it had come at the perfect time.
“We are in the process of selling our house, and so my husband said to me ‘we don’t have to sell the house anymore!” the thrilled woman exclaimed.
“We can’t believe the timing of it! We’ve had our house on the market for awhile but we haven’t had much luck and now we don’t have to worry about selling it.
“We’ll never ever forget it! We’re planning a holiday too. We are hoping to take the kids to Japan this year and then in a couple of years, we’d love to do a big Europe trip.
“We’ll both get a new car too as our cars are pretty old. We won’t go too crazy, we won’t be flippant with it. It will just really help us. We’ll make sure we have some left over for our retirement.
“It’s just such a nice feeling knowing we are no longer in debt with the house, and we won’t need to ever get into debt again!”
The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, purchased their winning entry at Puckle St Nextra, 45 Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds
So far this calendar year, Monday & Wednesday Lotto and TattsLotto have created 164 millionaires across Australia.
The winning numbers in TattsLotto draw 3897 on Saturday 24 November 2018 were 10, 20, 24, 7, 29 and 37, while the supplementary numbers were 32 and 42.
Across Australia there were three division one winning entries in TattsLotto draw 3897 – two from Victoria and one from Western Australia.
The Lott’s division one winning tally has now reached 157 so far this financial year, including 60 won by Tatts customers.
In the 12 months to 30 June 2018, there were 290 division one winning TattsLotto entries across the Lott’s jurisdictions, which collectively won more than $302.7 million.
More chances to win!
There are more chances to win big with tonight’s Oz Lotto draw offering a huge $2 million, while Thursday’s Powerball has $8 million up for grabs.
The First Prize in tonight’s Set for Life draw is $20,000 a month for 20 years, with each Set for Life entry giving you multiple chances to win in seven draws across seven days.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $28.60 million for draw 1166, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot is now $1.54 million for draw 10258.
Tickets can be purchased at any Tatts outlet, online from thelott.com or via the Lott mobile app.
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In the 12 months to 30 June 2018, 74 million winners took home a total of $2.7 billion in prize money from their favourite games which include TattsLotto, Monday and Wednesday Lotto, Powerball, Oz Lotto, Set for Life, Lucky Lotteries, Keno and Instant Scratch-Its.
