Townsville Man Lauds His Early Easter Treat After Lucky Lotteries $100,000 Win
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A Townsville man has received a welcome boost to his efforts to end his employment and enter early retirement following his $100,000 win in today’s Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw.
The North Queensland resident held the guaranteed 1st Prize in Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot draw 10551, drawn Friday 8 April 2022.
This afternoon an official from The Lott broke the news to the winner, who couldn’t wait to call his wife and give her the good news.
“You’re kidding! Really? $100,000?! Woohoo!” he yelled.
“Can you hang on for one moment, I just want to call my wife right away and tell her.
“This is fantastic mate. Thank you so much for calling. We’re getting on a bit now and want to retire, so this will definitely give us a helping hand.
“I play Lucky Lotteries most weeks but never expect to win anything other than a free ticket, so this has blown my mind.
“We’ll share some of it with our children and grandchildren, but really this is just the best start to Easter I can think of.”
His winning entry of one random number was purchased online at thelott.com – the official home of Australia’s lotteries.
The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $8.93 million for draw 1568, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $10.53 million for draw 10552.
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.
