A Pacific Pines shopper can look forward to living their best life in the tropics or anywhere they want to be after winning one of the top prizes of $1,000 a week for five years on an Instant Scratch-Its ticket.
The winning $5 Live the Life Tropical ticket was purchased at Pacific Pines Newsagency, Shop 2, Pacific Pines Shopping Centre, Pacific Pines.
However, how the winner plans to enjoy their prize will forever be a mystery as they have chosen to remain completely anonymous and celebrate in private.
Pacific Pines Newsagency owner Jack Xu said he was delighted one of his customers could enjoy life as a top prize winner and he hoped to deliver more major prize wins in the future.
“We were so excited when we discovered one of our customers won a top prize,” he said.
“Hopefully our customer really enjoys being a top prize winner. What an incredible win it is!
“We hadn’t had a major prize win in five years, so we couldn’t be happier.
“Fingers crossed this is the start of a winning streak. We love helping to deliver the excitement of a win to our customers and when it’s a major prize win, it’s even more thrilling!”
Instant Scratch-Its spokesperson Ally Ramsamy said she was sure the Gold Coast’s latest Instant Scratch-Its winner was thinking about all the incredible things they could do with their windfall.
“What a lovely surprise for our winner,” she said.
“Other winners have told us they use their windfall to buy a boat, explore Australia or book an adrenaline-pumping activity, like skydiving.
“Whatever they plan to do, we have no doubt this player will enjoy every moment of their instant windfall. I am sure their plans for the rest of 2020 have changed after scoring this exciting prize!”
In 2019, there were 199 Instant Scratch-Its top prize winners across the Lott’s jurisdictions who collectively took home more than $9.7 million in top prizes.
During this same time, Instant Scratch-Its players enjoyed more than 27.1 million wins across all prize tiers worth more than $208.8 million. This equates to more than half a million dollars won on Instant Scratch-Its every day.