After no entry scored the $5 million prize from last week, the lottery doubled in value to $10 million for Tuesday’s draw.
There’s $10 million up for grabs for this week’s Tuesday night lottery draw.
After no entry scored the $5 million prize from last week, the lottery doubled in value to $10 million for Tuesday’s draw.
This is the ninth time a $10 million Oz Lotto draw has been offered to players so far this year.
However, of those nine chances, only three times did someone snatch the prize.
On every other occasion, it jackpotted.
The last time somebody won a prize close to that amount was way back in August, when a Sydney mum scored a whopping $11 million.
The woman, a renter from Rosebery in the city’s eastern suburbs, was thinking about retiring early thanks to the windfall.
On August 17, the Rosebery mum was shocked when she was contacted by lottery officials to tell her the good news – that she had won just over $11 million.
The exact prize money was $11,002,697.57.
“I have won $11 million?” she said.
“Oh, you’re joking? You’re having me on?”
She said the windfall came at the perfect time, when she had been struggling financially amid Sydney’s lockdown.
Now she was thinking of buying her own house.
“I’ve been asking for financial freedom, and I can’t believe it’s happened,” she said.
She also wasn’t sure if she would stay at her job, saying: “I do like my job. Maybe I will keep working, maybe I won’t. I don’t know.
“I’ve always wanted my own home and to be able to provide for my family. I will certainly be able to do that now,” she said
A survey from Oz Lotto past winners found the most popular thing to do with a large windfall was invest it for the future – which 63 per cent of survey respondents said they did.
The next most common way to spend the money was helping out family and friends, with 52 per cent of winners doing that.
Of the winners, 41 per cent paid off their mortgage with their new-found cash.
Then 36 per cent bought a new car, 25 per cent donated to charity and 23 per cent bought a new house.
Thirteen per cent retired from work while 5 per cent switched jobs or dropped down to part-time.
Only 3 per cent decided to take the plunge and start a new business venture.
Originally published as $10m lottery jackpot up for grabs
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