A Port Stephens man finished work on Friday in the best possible way – with the revelation he’d just scored $200,000 in the latest Lucky Lotteries draw.
The New South Wales resident held the 1st Prize winning entry in Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw 1671 on Friday 17 May 2024.
“Woohoo!” the winning man cried when his win was confirmed by an official from The Lott shortly after the draw on Friday afternoon.
“I feel much better now, thank you!
“I’ve finished work and just checked my phone.
“The weekend takes on a whole different perspective now!
“I don’t normally play Lucky Lotteries, but I have dabbled in the past. I had something left over in my account, so I thought I’d grab a ticket.
“I just had a feeling. I had a feeling I would win.
“You’ve made our year. This is a deposit on a house. This will get us what we need and get us out of the rental trap.
“We’ve had a shortlist of dream homes, but we never thought we’d get there. Now we can!”
The man’s winning entry of 10 random numbers was purchased via The Lott app – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $19 million for draw 1672, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $1.54 million for draw 10852.
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, 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 $1.6 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and education.
