Young lottery winner grows emotional over chance to enter the Aussie housing market with $250,000 cash prize
A young Lotto winner is now gunning for a goal he never thought would be possible for him.
Tristan, a 22-year-old man from Canberra, ACT, won $250,000 last Thursday, and is planning to use it to enter the housing market, an oppurtunity that brought his mother to tears.
Tristan was scrolling on his phone, waiting for his UberEats order to arrive, when the phone rang.
It was the Oz Lotteries host Sarah Butler calling him while on a Facebook livestream.
When he realised how much he had won, Tristan said all he could hear 'was just full white noise'.
'I thought it was one of my housemates' pranks,' Tristan told Oz Lotteries.
When he realised it wasn't, he ran downstairs to his housemate and put the phone on speaker.
'My housemate stood up and screamed, before giving me a hug,' he said.
'None of us know anyone who's won money like this. It doesn't feel real.'
'My generation can't get into the housing market'
Tristan said that his first port of call is a financial advisor.
'I don't want to mess it up,' he said. 'The goal is a house deposit — that's it. If I play this right, it changes everything.'
The young man's mother was in a similar state of disbelief upon learning of her son's win and became emotional after watching a replay of the livestream because of what it would mean for her son's future.
'Mum almost cried when she realised this means I will be able to buy a house,' Tristan said.
'My generation can't get into the housing market.
'She never thought her son would be able to buy a house.'
Tristan was flown to Brisbane to watch the money be directly transferred into his account from the Oz Lotteries Toowong headquarters last weekend.
It was the biggest ever Daily Winners cash giveaway, and Tristan said that his 'hands were so sweaty' and that he 'barely slept a wink' while processing the win on his trip up the coast.
While weekly Daily Winners prizes are between $500 and $2500, there are monthly giveaways up to $100,000. Before learning of the sum that would soon be his, Tristan thought he might have won a prize worth about $30,000.
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