By Zak Wheeler For Daily Mail Australia
08:17 15 Jul 2024, updated 08:17 15 Jul 2024
A couple who thought they had won $1,000 were left stunned after realising they had misread their Lotto ticket and actually won more than a million dollars.
The Gold Coast couple became $1,008,162.52 richer following the division one draw on Saturday.
They were one of five entrants who held a winning ticket and initially believed they had won $1,000.
By the time officials from The Lott called to confirm their winnings, the pair had realised their mistake.
‘I just decided to check the ticket. At first, all I saw were the first four numbers and I went to my partner, “We’ve won $1,008”,’ the winning woman said.
‘He looked at the screen and said, “It’s not $1,008” and I said, “Yes, it is!” and then he said, “It’s $1 million”.’
The woman said that both she and her partner are retired and the money will be used to repair their home after it was damaged in recent storms.
‘We’re retired and there’s a lot of work we’d love to do on our home – especially after the Christmas Day storms that swept through here,’ she said.
The woman said they usually win no more than $15 per draw.
‘I still can’t believe it,’ she said.
‘It’s come at a lovely time, we’re feeling very blessed.’
The winning ticket was purchased from News Extra Coomera whose manager, Ching Lee, said she could not believe it.
‘When I first saw it on the terminal, I couldn’t believe it,’ she said.
‘Congratulations to our winner, I hope the win will change your life!’
In the past decade, five division one winning tickets and two top prize-winning Instant Scratch-Its have been sold at the newsagent.
The winning numbers in Saturday’s Gold Lotto draw were 21, 2, 36, 24, 18 and 1, and the supplementary numbers were 14 and 27.
Two of the division one winners lived in Queensland and one each came from New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.
There have been 223 division one winners so far in 2024, and in 2023 Saturday Gold Lotto created 176 millionaires across Australia.
Officials are hoping that Monday’s $20,000 a month for 20 years Set for Life draw, Tuesday’s $40 million Oz Lotto and Thursday’s $10 million Powerball will result in similar feel-good stories.
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