A Taree man has unwrapped the best birthday surprise after a ticket gifted by his beloved grandchildren scored him $100,000 in today’s Lucky Lotteries draw.
The New South Wales resident held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10907, drawn Friday 27 December 2024 and pocketed $100,000.
“Oh wow!” the winning grandfather cheered while speaking to an official from The Lott.
“That’s amazing. Are you serious? You’re not tricking us, are you?
“Thank you very much. It was my birthday, and I got a bunch of tickets from the grandkids.
“I never know what I want, so I just say, ‘Just get me lottery tickets!’.
“It’s not a million dollars, but it’s life-changing for us old folk.
“We live in an older house so we could do with a new roof or some solar panels. It’s endless really.
“What great news just after Christmas too. Thank you so much.”
His winning entry of nine random was purchased from Taree Lotto, K2, Manning Mall, 81 Manning Street, Taree.
The Taree Lotto team said they couldn’t be happier for their winning customer and wished them all the best.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $3.88 million for draw 1694, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $8.82 million for draw 10908.
In FY24, 147 Lucky Lotteries 1st Prize and Jackpot winning entries across Australia won more than $53.4 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.
The official home of Australia’s lotteries, The Lott operates and markets Australia’s leading lottery games customers know and love creating everyday winners, winning every day.
In FY24, more than 132.8 million winners took home more than $4.4 billion in prize money from their favourite games at The Lott, including Saturday Lotto, Weekday Windfall, Powerball, Oz Lotto, Set for Life, Lucky Lotteries, Keno (SA), Super 66, Lotto Strike and Instant Scratch-Its.
Last financial year, Australia’s official lotteries contributed more than $1.8 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and education.
