The hunt is for members of a Victorian syndicate who won $25 million in the Oz Lotto, as the other big winner said she bought the ticket last minute. Some mystery Victorians possibly fell asleep, not knowing they had just won $25 million. Two tickets in the Oz Lotto jackpot each pocketed a whopping $25 million, one being a Mackay woman and the other a 10-person Victorian syndicate. The Lott spokesperson Lauren Cooney said some syndicate members may not realize they’re now multi-millionaires.
“While we’ll be reaching out to those syndicate members who registered their entries to their player cards, there are some syndicate members who hold unregistered entries and may not yet know they’re part of this winning group,” she said. “If you purchased a share in a syndicate for the recent Oz Lotto draw, I can think of millions of reasons to check it as soon as possible! If you discover you’re holding a winning share, call The Lott on 131 868 to start the prize claim process!”
After this week’s Oz Lotto draw. This week’s winning numbers were 38, 25, 31, 1, 23, 8, and 4; the two supplementary were 11 and 44. The other big winner was a Mackay mum who was shocked to receive the phone call that she was now a multi-millionaire. “Holy sh**! This has got to be wrong!” she said. “This cannot be true. Oh my god. Are you sure it’s me? Really? Are you sure? Is this real?
“It was a last-minute decision to buy an entry. I cannot believe it,” she said. The woman said she already had big plans for her big prize. “This changes everything for everyone! I can’t wait to help my family. This is wonderful,” she said. “And I’ve always said I would retire if I won the lottery – it looks like that’s what I’ll be doing!” So far this year, 13 Oz Lotto division one has won over $197 million. NSW and Victoria have four divisions, one pry; Western Australia has enjoyed three, while Queensland and Northern Territory have one each.
This is the fourth time Oz Lotto has offered a prize of $30 million this year.
A Sydney man won the same amount last year and exclusively spoke to news.com.au earlier this month. Surprisingly, he revealed that the $30 million wins weren’tt entirely a good thind. The ex-tradie, in his 30s, told news.com.au: “What my motto has become, I guess winning the lotto doesn’t make you any happier; it just makes life easier. “If you’re unhappy and want to win the lottery (to change that), you’re going to be mistaken.”
He had a lot of “weird” experiences when he told friends and family about the windfall.
“People have come out of the woodwork,” he explained. “Many people find out through the grapevine; they never ask you. I had someone I haven’t seen since I was in school, probably 15 years ago.” One close friendship soured because “they didn’t take it well” when he told them he was now a multi-millionaire. The man still remembers the “surreal” moment he discovered he’d won the Powerball while staying in a shoddy motel in regional NSW after doing a 14-hour workday.
“I could either charge my phone or watch the TV because there was only one PowerPoint in the room,” he said. After watching the telly for 10 minutes, he grew bored and plugged in his phone instead. As it was a Thursday, he remembered he had entered that week’s Powerball prize and decided to check out the winning numbers. “Bang,” he said. “I saw it there; it was just there. I was sitting on my phone, alone, a few beers in, thinking, ‘what’s going on’.
