An Islington woman can’t wait to enjoy a golden retirement after scoring $200,000 in a recent Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw.
The joyful woman scored the guaranteed 1st Prize of $200,000 in Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw 1652, drawn Monday 11 March 2024.
The Novocastrian was completely unaware of her newfound lottery loot until officials from The Lott revealed the news over a winning phone call.
“Oh, my heavens! Thank you very much!” she cheered.
“That is amazing news. Two hundred thousand dollars. Wow - That’s pretty special.
“I’m at retirement age, but I’ve had to keep working. This might just be the trigger to finally let me retire.
“Thank you. Thank you. You’ve completely made my day.
“The most I’ve ever won was $800 but that was years ago now.
“You must have the best job in the world breaking such amazing news to people like me. How wonderful.
“I can’t wait to tell my friends so we can celebrate.”
Her entry of one random number was purchased via The Lott app – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $14.44 million for draw 1653, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $500,000 for draw 10842.
In 2023, 117 Lucky Lotteries 1st Prize and Jackpot winning entries across Australia won more than $20.6 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 2023, more than 122.7 million wins took home more than $3.76 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 (SA), 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.