A Mount Victoria man is ready to hammer out all his home renovation plans after landing $200,000 in a recent Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw.
The Blue Mountains resident scored the 1st Prize of $200,000 in Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw 1682, drawn Wednesday 19 June 2024.
The white-collar worker was in the middle of a meeting when he received the life-enhancing phone call confirming his windfall.
“I’ve won $200,000?! That’s wonderful!” he cheered.
“That’s such exciting news. Magnificent!
“It’s amazing. Wow. Thank you!
“I’ve been in and out of meetings all day and I initially missed your call.
“This news is definitely a great pick-me-up.
“I saw the other day that someone won the incredible $21 million Lucky Lotteries Jackpot Prize in Queensland, and it inspired me to grab some tickets.
“I’ve got a few ideas in mind. I’ll need to speak to my wife first about what we’ll do, but we’ve wanted to do some renovations around the house.
“What a wonderful phone call.”
His entry of five random numbers was purchased on The Lott website – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $1.24 million for draw 1683, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $2.19 million for draw 10857.
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, 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 $1.6 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and educati
