A Toowoomba retiree has set her sights on a new car and a new fridge after scoring division one in last weekend’s Saturday Gold Lotto draw.
The Darling Downs resident held one of the seven division one winning entries in Saturday Gold Lotto draw 4323, drawn Saturday 24 December 2022. Each division one winning entry scored $823,588.63.
“I only discovered this on Christmas Day in the afternoon,” the winning woman exclaimed when confirming her prize with an official from The Lott.
“Christmas Eve we’d been busy, and then we had lunch on Christmas Day. It was only in the afternoon that I looked at my emails and saw a message saying I’d won something.
“I thought I might have won $700 or something like that. When I checked it, I thought, ‘oh my god!”. When it said I’d won more than $823,000, I nearly slipped over.
“I’ve been playing for years and years. I can’t quite believe I’ve finally won.
“With this prize, I want to get a new car and a new fridge. They both need an upgrade. I also want to help my family.
“This means a lot to me. It means we won’t have to worry about a thing ever again!”
The woman’s winning 12-game QuickPick entry was purchased at news extra Central City, Shop 1, 245 Margaret Street, Toowoomba.
news extra Central City owner Scott Talbot said he was still revelling in the fact his outlet had sold a division one winning ticket.
“We are so excited to have helped to change someone’s life,” he said.
“Congratulations to our winner! We wish them all the very best with their prize.
“This newsagency has been in the family for 26 years, but we’ve owned it for three years, and this is our first division one winning entry.
“We are going for the trifecta this week! We want to sell a division one winning ticket in Powerball’s $100 million draw and then in the weekend’s $40 Million Megadraw. As they say, ‘good things come in threes’!”
The winning numbers in Saturday Gold Lotto draw 4323 on 24 December 2022 were 4, 32, 8, 39, 7 and 24, while the supplementary numbers were 34 and 17.
Across Australia, there were seven division one winning entries in Saturday Gold Lotto draw 4323 – two each from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria and one from Western Australia.