While sitting back and relaxing on vacation in Fiji, a Norah Heads man received the exhilarating news he’d won $100,000 in a recent Lucky Lotteries draw.
The New South Welshman held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10878, drawn Friday 27 September 2024, and pocketed a neat $100,000.
The stunned man shared he’d seen multiple missed calls coming from an Australian number but was completely oblivious to his newfound treasure.
“You’re joking!” he laughed when he finally answered a call from an official from The Lott confirming his prize.
“I’m in Fiji on holiday right now.
“I’ve been sitting on the beach all afternoon and noticed my phone kept buzzing.
“We haven’t been on our phones much this trip, so I thought it was odd.
“When I saw you’d called a few times, I knew it must be something important.
“I had no idea The Lott was trying to call me!
“I’m absolutely stoked right now.
“My wife and I are looking out the sunset and grinning cheek to cheek.
“You’ve made this a trip we’ll never forget! Thank you!”
The man’s winning 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 $2.44 million for draw 1688, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $5.05 million for draw 10879.
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.
