General News
29 December, 2022
Big bucks for Maryborough TattsLotto winner
A Maryborough woman has received the Christmas present of a lifetime, taking home almost $900,000 after holding a division one winning ticket, bought at Maryborough’s newsXpress, in the Saturday Lotto. While always hoping she’d win the big one...
A Maryborough woman has received the Christmas present of a lifetime, taking home almost $900,000 after holding a division one winning ticket, bought at Maryborough’s newsXpress, in the Saturday Lotto.
While always hoping she’d win the big one someday, the winner said she was left completely over-whelmed by the news.
The Maryborough resident held one of the seven division one winning entries in Saturday Lotto draw 4323, drawn on Christmas Eve, with each division one entry scoring $823,512,63.
In addition to winning division one, the woman’s system eight entry also scored division two six times, division three six times and division four 15 times, bolstering her total prize to $896,512,63.
The winner was completely oblivious of her good fortune until it was confirmed by an official from The Lott.
“I’ve been playing for 24 years using my special numbers — family birthdays and things like that,” she said.
“They’ve been very good to me these numbers, but nothing quite like this.
“I’m a bit overwhelmed at the moment.”
The woman said she wouldn’t be rushing into making any decisions on how to spend her winnings, but said 2023 was looking to be a great year.
The winning ticket marks the 38th to be sold from Maryborough’s newsXpress since the outlet opened.
Owner Cheryle Forster said it was an exciting way to end the year.
“We were over the moon when we found out we’d sold a division one winning entry,” she said.
“What a magnificent way to celebrate Christmas for the lucky winner.
“Everybody needs something to celebrate after the last few years of ups and downs with COVID.
“Congratulations to our winner, what a magnificent way to start off 2023. We are all so happy for you.”
newsXpress owner Ross Forster said the winnings were a “life-changing” amount of money.
“Every week it’s guaranteed that someone is going to win it and you hear about the odds and the chances of winning, but someone still wins,” he said.
“There’s winning money and there’s winning a life-changing amount of money, which this is.
“The people who won this have been down on their luck and when we asked her (the winner) to step into the office she thought she must have done something wrong, but the look on her face when we told her the news was priceless.”
The winning numbers in TattsLotto draw 4323 on 24 December 2022 were 4, 32, 8, 39, 7 and 24, while the supplementary numbers were 34 and 17.
Across Australia, there were seven division one winning entries in TattsLotto draw 4323 — two each from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria and one from Western Australia.