Winner of $70 million Oz Lotto jackpot identified as man from Tasmania, not Victoria
stand down — the winner of Tuesday night's life-changing $70 million Oz Lotto draw has been found, and they're actually from
Tasmania
.
The lucky winner is in fact a soon-to-be retiree who purchased their ticket through Oz Lotteries, an authorised reseller of The Lott.
It's understood the contact details The Lott initially received were incorrect,
which is why they initially said the winner was from Victoria.
The winner told Oz Lotteries he checked his account more than 15 times since 11pm on Tuesday, not believing he was a multi-millionaire.
His 18 standard games ticket was confirmed as the winning Division 1 entry by officials on Wednesday morning.
He also took home a Division 7 prize of $17.25 as a little cherry on top of the cake.
'I have hardly slept all night. I was wondering if I was dreaming, and I was going to wake up and someone was going to say, it was all just a dream,' the winner said.
'I don't have to come to work anymore, it's -1 C here at the moment where I am working. I might just go and hand my resignation in right now.'
The winner said he has had a tough couple of years and now plans to retire early and buy a house with his partner.
'I am just getting back on my feet and I still have a mortgage when everyone else (my age) is about to retire,' he said.
'I have been saying I will have to work until I am 70, but not now.'
The $70 million first division prize is the second biggest of any Australian lottery game this year, and Oz Lotto's fourth-largest prize ever.
The winning numbers for draw 1633 are 44, 34, 45, 1, 46, 25 and 21. The supplementary numbers are 9, 14 and 16.
In division two, 20 winners each took home more than $48,000, and 193 division three winners banked close to $6000.
Gaming authorities predicted one in five Australians would snap up a ticket for the chance to secure a slice of — if not all — of the huge jackpot.
Three Oz Lotto division one wins, totalling $185 million, had been written into the books so far this year.
A
$70 million Oz Lotto jackpot was won this year by a 15-share syndicate
in
Queensland
, with each taking home a $4.7 million slice.
A western Sydney woman
made history with a $100 million win in February
, the game's most lucrative prize ever.
'Who is this? Why are you calling this late?' the winner told The Lott when contacted after the draw.
'What the hell! Can you repeat that? Oh my God! Don't lie to me!'
Just a few weeks later, $15 million was claimed by a North Queensland man.
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