A Central Coast woman is thanking a last-minute decision to pick up a lottery ticket from St Ives for her $100,000 win.
The New South Wales player held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10731, drawn 8 November 2022.
In addition to winning the 1st Prize, her entry also scored a $1,000 consolation prize, boosting her total windfall to $101,000.
“I’m a bit dazed!” the winning woman laughed while her win was confirmed by an official from The Lott.
“It’s lovely! I’ve been playing for years and years and years, but I’ve never won anything like this.
“I was just travelling through St Ives and thought I would pop in and grab a ticket. I didn’t have my player card with me, so I only found out about this win when I checked my ticket just now.
“I’m not quite sure what I’ll do with it just yet. I think I might upgrade my car – it’s done a few kilometres.
“Thank you! What a great surprise to my day!”
Nextra St Ives Village Newsagency manager Karen Scott said she was thrilled their latest big winner had discovered their prize.
“We’ve been celebrating the win by putting posters up and letting our customers know we’ve sold a winning ticket,” she said.
“Hopefully, it’s the start of a winning streak. The last time we sold a big winning entry was about two years ago for Saturday Lotto.
“Congratulations to our winner. I hope this brings you and your family great joy, especially going into the festive season.”
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $1.24 million for draw 1598, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $1.28 million for draw 10372.
In FY22, 169 Lucky Lotteries 1st Prize and Jackpot winning entries across Australia won more than $32.95 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.
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In FY22, more than 133.5 million winners took home more than $3.93 billion in prize money from their favourite games at The Lott, including Saturday Lotto, Monday & Wednesday Lotto, Powerball, Oz Lotto, Set for Life, Lucky Lotteries, Keno, 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 education.