A man from Australia has leaped into the ranks of multi-millionaires virtually overnight, after discovering he’d won a staggering $20 million in a lottery draw—astonishingly, 20 times more than his initial assumption.
This Melbourne local was the sole individual in the country holding a division one winning ticket for last night’s Oz Lotto draw.
When lottery officials reached out to the Tullamarine resident on Wednesday morning, he playfully commented that a million-dollar windfall guarantees a restful night’s sleep.
This fortunate Aussie had the nation’s only division one winning ticket.
“I’m still lounging in bed at the moment,” he remarked, “but I did check my Oz Lotto ticket last night while prepping dinner, so I think I have a clue why you’re calling.”
Overwhelmed, the man said it felt ‘like a dream’ when officials told him that his true winnings totalled $20,034,283.20.
‘But I thought I’d won one million dollars, not twenty million dollars, he said. ‘I assumed multiple people won the prize, not just me.’
‘I never thought I’d become an overnight multi-millionaire. It’s so much money! This is very overwhelming.
‘I know this is true, but it doesn’t feel like it. It feels like a dream!
The man said he was yet to celebrate his winnings and planned to have a ‘nice sleep in’ before calling his family to share the news of his overnight fortune.
When asked what he will do with the money, he said he can now ‘live his best life’ and plans to buy a home, help his family, and go travelling.
The man bought the winning ticket from the Tullamarine Authorised Newsagency, in Melbourne’s north-west.
Newsagency owner, Sasha Kulincevic, said his entire team was celebrating the division one win.
The winning ticket was bought from a news agency in Tullamarine, Melbourne
‘We’ve been sharing the news with all our customers, and they’re all excited and hoping they’re next,’ Mr Kulincevic said.
‘Hopefully this is the start of a winning streak.’
The Lotto’s division one winning tally has now reached 376 so far this financial year.
In 2021, 18 division one winning Oz Lotto entries across Australia collectively won more than $279.7 million – with the biggest jackpot of $50 million, which was shared by a Queensland and Victorian player in November.
Of the 18 winning entries, six landed in Victoria, five in NSW, three in Western Australian, two in Queensland and one each in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
The latest win had the numbers 4, 22, 30, 17, 5, 45, 34, with supplementary numbers 31 and 44.