Lottery jackpot of $33 million won by accident
An Australian man has won more than $30 million in his country’s lottery – by accident! After buying two tickets instead of one, his winners doubled!
The anonymous winner had been playing the same lottery numbers in The Lotto for over 30 years. This week he accidentally bought two of the same ticket for Tuesday’s drawing, thinking he was buying a ticket for another week’s game.
The numbers exactly matched those of the division one Jackpot, doubling his $23.3 million ($US16.5 million) prize to $46 million ($US 33 million).
An Australian man has accidentally bought two of the three winning lottery tickets in the $70m (£37.6m) Oz Lotto Jackpot.
According to The Lotto’s official statement, the Melbourne man had noticed he had won online but was only remembering one ticket. It wasn’t until a member of their team called and told him he had won on both.
“You’re kidding,” he told the official, “Am I seeing things?”
The blue-collar worker from Melbourne, whose name has not been disclosed, had been playing those numbers for 30 years, according to an Oz Lotto statement.
The man, from St Albans in Melbourne, had forgotten he had two entries in Tuesday’s $70m (US$50m) draw, each marked with the same numbers.
The new multi-millionaire had just gotten off work when he found out the life-changing news. He told the official “I might think about retiring.”
He was asked how he was going to spend his big winnings!
“First on a new home or holiday,” then “I’ll definitely share it with my family.”
“I have always marked my entries but I have never chosen anything in particular. They weren’t special before, but they are now.”
Even The Lotto company was thrilled by the news.
