Two Australians will be celebrating extra hard this weekend after winning a whopping amount in Saturday night’s Lotto draw.
The owners of the winning tickets — sold in NSW and Victoria — will share in the $5 million jackpot, pocketing $2,461,079.86 each.
Another 51, including 13 West Aussies, won division two prizes, taking home a cool $11,917.15 each.
The winning numbers are 5, 6, 14, 36, 37, 45 and the supplementary are 28, 31.
The new millionaires aren’t the only people celebrating their new fortune.
One Aussie became $20 million richer after winning Thursday night’s entire division one Lotto prize.
The NSW woman broke down in tears after realising her $20,000 lottery win was actually a $20m jackpot.
She checked her ticket on Friday morning and got the shock of her life when she realised it held the winning numbers.
“I looked at it and then ran to my family and said, ‘I’ve won $20,000!’,” the Gladstone resident told officials from The Lott.
“They looked at it and then looked at me and said, ‘No you haven’t. You’ve won $20 million!’”.
The woman said she would have been happy to have won a $20,000 prize, but she is now “in fairyland” over the life-changing win.
“I still can’t believe it,” she said.
“I keep thinking I’ll wake up and I’ll be back in reality.”
The Mid North Coast local broke down in tears when asked what she would do with the multi-million dollar prize, telling lottery officials she had been waiting on “one of (their) calls for years”.
She plans to use her lottery winnings to buy a house and travel around the world.
– With NCA NewsWire
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