€�I Did A Double-take To See If It Was True!”: Avalon Beach Woman Awestruck By $100,000 Lottery Win
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An Avalon Beach woman thought her eyes were deceiving her when she checked her Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot ticket and discovered she’d won an unforgettable $100,000 prize.
The beachside resident won the guaranteed 1st Prize of $100,000 in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10605, drawn Wednesday 6 July 2022.
Straight after the draw was concluded, the Sydneysider happened to check her entry on The Lott app and was left stunned by the winning revelation.
“Wow, this is wonderful,” she cheered when she spoke an an official from The Lott moments later.
“I received an email letting me know that I’d won a prize on some of my lottery tickets in the recent Lucky Lotteries draws, so I decided to open The Lott app and have a look.
“Initially, I saw I’d won $10 on one of the first lottery tickets that I’d checked, and I didn’t expect to win anything else on the other lottery tickets!
“But I was left with a surprise when I checked the last one and noticed I’d won $100,000 – I had to do a double-take to see if it was true! You never expect to win big, but when you do, it’s great!
“I’ll tell some of my immediate family members and put it towards my retirement fund.
“This is a great boost!”
Her winning entry of 10 random numbers was purchased online at thelott.com – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $11.81 million for draw 1580, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $17.70 million for draw 10607.
In 2021, 127 Lucky Lotteries 1st Prize and Jackpot winning entries across Australia won more than $32.95 million.
During this time, the biggest Lucky Lotteries prize was won by a Coolangatta man who a Mega Jackpot prize of $9.41 million in May.
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 2021, more than 130.8 million winners took home more than $3.79 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 $1.5 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and education.
