{"id":482928,"date":"2026-02-16T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482928\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:10:10","slug":"mystery-nsw-resident-suddenly-1-25-million-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482928\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery NSW resident suddenly $1.25 million richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mystery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"New South Wales\">New South Wales<\/a> resident who has won a life-changing $1.25 million may still be unaware of their windfall.<\/p>\n<p>Lottery officials are searching for the person, who holds one of \ufeff16 division one winning tickets from Saturday&#8217;s Lotto draw 4651.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket was purchased in the Hunter Valley town of Morpeth \ufeffat the convenience store Spar Express at Shop 1, 165 Swan Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a4ff35a3-bb9e-492f-a4be-2eedc4f86e4d.jpeg\"   alt=\"The resident purchased the ticket at Spar Express on Swan Street in Morpeth in the state's Hunter region.\"\/>The resident purchased the ticket at Spar Express on Swan Street in Morpeth in the state&#8217;s Hunter region. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Spar Express Morpeth Manager \ufeffGlen Scarratt said he was thrilled his outlet sold a ticket that had potentially changed someone&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely fantastic news for the town,&#8221; the NSW Hunter region businessman told The Lott.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re really happy for the mystery division one winner and we hope it is a local.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Lott spokesperson Anna Hobdell said the mystery winner has likely started their week oblivious to their win.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait to speak to this winner and confirm the exciting news,&#8221; Hobdell said.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers in Saturday&#8217;s Lotto draw 4651 were 12, 7, 3, 6, 14 and 22, while the supplementary numbers were 43 and 20.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3e0c8b80-9d05-4e64-b19d-fd611826504e.jpeg\"   alt=\"There were six division one winners in NSW.\"\/>There were six division one winners in NSW. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Among the NSW winners was a Newcastle dad who normally &#8220;never wins anything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He told The Lott this follows his $100,000 win in a Christmas raffle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you kidding me? I&#8217;ve won $1.2 million? I can&#8217;t believe it, I thought it was a scam,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just kept thinking, &#8216;Why should I read this information out to you?&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I initially believed I hadn&#8217;t won anything because when I checked my online account earlier, I saw $53, but it turned out that was just my account balance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a funny story. I&#8217;ve never been lucky and I never win anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But on Christmas Eve, I bought a TV and it automatically entered me into this raffle and I won $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;ve won $1.2 million. This really tops the Christmas raffle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different ways to get help and information about gambling. You can visit the National Gambling Helpline or call on 1800 858 858.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mystery New South Wales resident who has won a life-changing $1.25 million may still be unaware of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-482928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}