A Clare Valley family have had a sleepless night after discovering their X Lotto entry scored them a division one prize worth over $1 million in Saturday’s draw.
The York and Mid North family held one of the four division one winning entries nationally in X Lotto draw 3971, drawn Saturday 10 August 2019. Each entry took home a division one prize of $1,017,643.37.
Sharing her excitement with a SA Lotteries official this morning, the winner revealed her and her family had spent the night discussing their win.
“I couldn’t believe it when I saw the numbers yesterday!” she exclaimed.
“My son then checked the numbers online and confirmed that we had won.
“It was a beautiful day! It’s a day we’ve wished for for so long.
“We were up late talking about the win and what we would do with it!”
The thrilled winner revealed the family planned to upgrade their home with their million-dollar windfall.
“We’ve decided we are going to use our win to buy a new home somewhere warm!” she declared.
The regular player, who wishes to remain anonymous, purchased their 14-game marked entry at Richard’s Clare Valley Terry White Chemmart, 1/260 Main North Road, Clare.
Richard’s Clare Valley Terry White Chemmart lotteries manager Wendy Vandeleur said she was absolutely thrilled to discover her outlet had sold it’s first division one winning entry.
“We’ve only been selling lotteries in the outlet since February so we are thrilled to have sold such a large prize to our customers!” she exclaimed.
“We’ll be decorating the store and telling all of our customers so they all know we are a winning outlet.
“It’s a very exciting atmosphere in store here today!
“We are so happy for our winners. We hope they enjoy their prize!”
In 2018, Monday & Wednesday X Lotto and X Lotto created 194 millionaires across Australia.
The winning numbers in X Lotto draw 3971 on Saturday 10 August 2019 were 39, 9, 6, 37, 1 and 38, while the supplementary numbers were 11 and 45.
Across Australia, there were four division one winning entries in X Lotto draw 3971, two from Victoria and one each from Queensland and South Australia.
The Lott’s division one winning tally has now reached 235 so far this calendar year, including 19 won by SA Lotteries customers.
In the 12 months to 31 December 2018, there were 280 division one winning TattsLotto entries across the Lott’s jurisdictions, which collectively won more than $306.19 million.