A Salamander Bay man has confessed he’ll have a skip in his step today after the revelation he was a division one winner in the weekend’s Saturday Lotto draw.
The New South Wales resident held one of the seven division one winning entries nationally in Saturday Lotto draw 3943 on Saturday 4 May 2019. Each division one winning entry takes home a division one prize of $573,863.51.
When a NSW Lotteries official reached out to the winner this morning, he admitted he was still beaming about the win.
“I haven’t let the ticket out of my hand,” he exclaimed.
“Yesterday morning I checked my emails and it was a nice surprise!
“I got the shock of my life.
“It all sounds very good! Excellent!”
While he still planned to front up to work today, the regular Lotto player said he was bound to be distracted thinking about his win.
“Life goes on, but with a little bit more of a skip in my step,” he said.
“We’ve got a mortgage hanging over our heads, so I’ll certainly put some towards that and then a little bit of travel.
“It’s come at a very good time.”
The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, purchased his winning 50-game QuickPick entry at McCauley’s Bottleshop, 259 Soldiers Point Road, Salamander Bay.
McCauley’s Bottleshop owner John McCauley said he was ecstatic his outlet sold a division one winning entry.
“I’m actually overwhelmingly happy that one of our customers won!” he exclaimed.
“We’ve only been a lottery outlet for about four months, so I was in a state of disbelief when I saw we had sold our first big one.
“It makes all of our staff happy to put that winning smile on someone's face! It’s just a great feeling to be part of making a customer’s dream come true.
“We are a bottleshop, so we’ll be cracking open some champagne to celebrate.”
In 2018, Monday & Wednesday Lotto and Saturday Lotto created 194 millionaires across Australia.
The winning numbers in Saturday Lotto draw 3943 on Saturday 4 May 2019 were 23, 8, 27, 7, 33 and 24, while the supplementary numbers were 41 and 15.
Across Australia, there were seven division one winning entries in Saturday Lotto draw 3943, two each from Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia, and one from New South Wales.
The Lott’s division one winning tally has now reached 123 so far this calendar year, including 32 won by NSW Lotteries customers.
In the 12 months to 31 December 2018, there were 280 division one winning Saturday Lotto entries across the Lott’s jurisdictions, which collectively won more than $306.19 million.