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Source : Tattersalls
Date released: 19/08/2005
$11 Million Powerball Win Stuns Melton Man Who Was Hoping For $50,000
“Fair Dinkum? I was hoping I would win about $50,000,” a retired Melton
man said this morning, when told that he had won $11 million in
Powerball on 18 August.
“I thought a $50,000 would have been a fantastic thing to win, but this
has blown me over.”
“I am too stunned to think clearly – I think I’ll find a soft part of
the floor to collapse on,” he said.
His wife was in the room when he rang a Tattersall’s representative in
reply to a message left on their answering machine.
“At first she thought there must have been a death in the family and now
that she knows what it is all about, she has gone into shock,” the
winner said.
“I have told her to sit down, but now I think she has lost control. It’s
too much to comprehend actually.”
“All I can say about spending all that money is that we will make it
work for us.”
“We have adult children, so as they are our priority in life they will
benefit immensely.”
“I started playing Tattslotto in 1973 and Powerball when it started
(1996) and because it had jackpotted a few times I took an extra Quick
Pick ticket in last night’s draw and it has won all this money.”
“The first thing I’ll have to do now is get myself to stop shaking and
keep the old heartbeat going,” he said.
This winning entry, which shared the Division One prize pool with an
entry from Queensland, was submitted at Melton Lotto.
Date released: 31/03/2005
Wheelers Hill Woman Broke Tatts Keno Record By Winning $5 Million
A woman from Wheelers Hill won $5 million in Tatts Keno on Wednesday 30
March– the biggest prize for the game since it started in May 1988.
“You’ve got to be joking,” the winner when she received a telephone call
from Tattersall’s advising her entry had won the record Spot 10 prize
pool.
“I can’t believe it – give me time to process it,” she said
When she realised that she really was a multi millionaire, she said that
she would visit the Wheelers Hill Newsagency, where the entry was
purchased.
“I am so used to Margaret, who works there, saying: ‘Sorry, no prizes on
this ticket’!”
“We’ve got an appointment this morning with a travel agent to book
tickets to fly overseas and we were going to wait until we saw what the
price gap was before deciding to fly Economy or Business Class.”
“I now think we’ll be going Business Class,” she said.
The winner and her husband, who are both aged in their 60s and retired,
have children and grandchildren.
Date released: 27/10/2004
Essendon Man Devises His Own Method Of Playing Oz Lotto - And Wins $6
Million
A retired Essendon man, using a method of playing Lotto games he devised
about 30 years ago, won $6 million in Oz Lotto on Tuesday 26 October.
The winner, aged in his 70s, said that he wrote down the winning numbers
from every lotto game – Saturday and Wednesday Tattslotto, Oz Lotto and
Powerball.
“Then I look back over a period of about ten weeks and see which numbers
came up most in the first few weeks, but have not come up in recent
weeks,” he said.
“I reckon these numbers are about ready to come up again, so I play
them.”
“I saw the winning numbers on TV and thought I had five correct, so I
was quite happy about that.”
“Then I checked them again and saw that I had 33, which I had missed, so
I had all six right.”
“This caused me a sleepless night wondering how much I had won!”
Married with children and grandchildren, he said that the first thing he
would buy his wife would be a new lounge suite and new carpets.
This winning entry was submitted at the West Essendon Newsagency.
Date released: 20/09/2004
15 Lucky Winners From September’s $19 Million Tattslotto Superdraw
There were 15 lucky winners who shared the Division One prize pool from
the Tattslotto Superdraw held on 18 September. Each winner received just
over $1.2 million. The winners came from Hoppers Crossing, Corio, Eltham
and Warragul in Victoria, as well as one from Dickson in the ACT, five
from Queensland, four from New South Wales and one from Western
Australia.
A retired Hoppers Crossing woman, who’s played Tattslotto for years, is
now able to help her 17 children, grandchildren and great grandchildren
after winning over $1.2 million
“The thought of being able to help my family was the only reason I kept
playing,” she said when her win was confirmed.
An Eltham winner was pleased that he’d “still be a millionaire” even
after paying off his mortgage. And the first reaction of an East Geelong
couple after realising their win was to “jump up and down”.
Date released: 25/08/2004
$1 Million Oz Lotto Prize Still Not Claimed
A Division One Oz Lotto prize of more than $1 million, won in Oz Lotto
on Tuesday 24 August, has yet to be claimed.
As the owner does not have a Tatts Card, Tattersall’s has not been able
to ring him or her with the good news.
The winning 12 game Quick Pick entry was submitted at the St Kilda
Junction Newsagency.
Date released: 07/06/2004
Tattslotto Superdraw Means Another 17 Australian Millionaires
17 lucky people collected $1,352,941.18 from the Tattslotto Superdraw
held on Saturday 5 June. There were 3 Victorian winners from Doncaster,
Campbellfield and Cranbourne Park (a syndicate entry), 3 winners from
Western Australia, 6 from Queensland, 4 from NSW and 1 from South
Australia.
In Cranbourne Park, a syndicate of 26 colleagues working in the
construction industry each collected $52,000 from their first Division
win. The syndicate organizer, aged in his 40’s, was today advising some
of his younger co -workers to pay off some of their debts. “I told them,
“Try and pay off some of your bills. They were already celebrating their
win when I called them.” The man, who formed the syndicate 18 months
ago, plans to keep it running. The entry was submitted at Cranbourne
Park Lotto.
In North Balwyn, a man aged in his 60’s was finding it hard to come to
grips with his win after returning from a walk with his dog. Having
bought a couple of tickets, he was unsure which was the winning one. But
as the man’s entry was registered with a Tatts Card, Tattersall’s had no
trouble informing him about which entry had made him a millionaire. The
man’s entry was from The Pines Lotto, Doncaster East.
Tattersall’s has yet to hear from the owner of a winning entry submitted
at Tobacco Station in Campbellfield. As the ticket was not registered to
a Tatts Card, Tattersall’s has been unable to contact the owner with the
good news. The winning entry was a System 9.
Date released: 29/04/2004
$975,000 Win For Man Playing Wednesday Tattslotto For The First Time
A public servant from Abbotsford, who played Wednesday Tattslotto for
the first time on April 28, won more than $975,000.
He said that he felt ‘lucky’ while at in a Tattersall’s Outlet and had
decided to purchase a System Seven entry with numbers related to
relatives birthdays
Aged in his 30s and married, he plans to buy his first home with some of
the money and invest the rest.
His winning entry was submitted at Victoria Street Lotto in Abbotsford.
Date released: 13/10/2003 Deer Park Man Thought Call About $801,000
Tattslotto Win A Hoax
A Deer Park man thought that he was receiving a hoax call when a
Tattersall’s Lotteries representative rang to advise that he had won
Tattslotto on Saturday night.
“I’ve been playing Tattslotto for about 20 years, but never won more
than $15. When are you going to make it a big prize, “ the winner said.
“Would $801,000 be big enough?” the Tattersall’s representative replied.
“You must be kidding! That means I could pay off our car and house, then
retire,” the building industry worker said.
“As far as I know we didn’t a have a ticket in last Saturday’s draw.”
“I won’t believe you until I see the winning numbers on a ticket and I
can’t find one around the house,” he said.
Last night his wife arrived home and explained the mystery. Unknown to
him, she had purchased a ticket from Deer Park Lotto.
08/10/2003 $1 Million Oz Lotto
Win Was “A Mistake”
A shop assistant from Highett, who won $1 million in Oz Lotto Draw No.
503, said she had done so by mistake.
“I thought I was using the same numbers every week since Tattslotto and
Oz Lotto started (June 1972 and February 1994), but now I realise that
somewhere along the line I have accidentally replaced one of them with
number 44,” she said, when she learned of her win this morning.”
”When the chap at Tattersall’s told me I had won, I did not believe him
and went and checked my numbers carefully, only to see that I had all
six.”
The winner, who is aged in her 60s and married, said that she would keep
working until the end of the year, then retire.
“I’m old fashioned. The people who own the shop where I work have been
good to me, so I will not just walk out on them,” she said.
“In fact today I’ll work right up until 5.30 pm when we close.”
The first thing she plans to do with the prize money is to recarpet her
home.
“I have been thinking about it for quite a while, but now it is
definite,” she said.
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