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<\/p>\nTwo tickets on almost opposite ends of Australia\u2019s east coast have split a $40 million lottery bonanza.<\/p>\n
A Tasmanian man and a mystery owner of a ticket bought in Hervey Bay were the winners of the Oz Lotto jackpot on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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The Tasmanian man said he was close to retirement and with his winnings he will plan some overseas travel, probably to Texas and Arizona.\u00a0The Lott<\/p>\n
The man from Sorell, about 25 kilometres north-east of Hobart, burst into tears and told lottery officials he almost didn\u2019t buy a ticket because \u201cI struggled to get to the newsagent tonight\u201d. He claimed he was at work late and arrived \u201ca couple of minutes before closing\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHoly smokes. Wow. Unbelievable,\u201d the unidentified man said when he was told of the win, according to The Lott.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is life changing. It\u2019s come at a really good time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll paint you a really good picture of what that means for us. We\u2019ve been renting and have been looking for another house to move to. This is like \u2013 now we\u2019ll just buy a house.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man said he was close to retirement and with his winnings he will plan some overseas travel, probably to Texas and Arizona.<\/p>\n
\u201cHoly smokes. I appreciate the call. Geez, I\u2019m shocked. I\u2019m so happy. It\u2019s just a weight off your shoulders.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re god.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lott said the owner of the ticket purchased in Hervey Bay was unregistered so remained a mystery on Tuesday night. The new multimillionaire could be a resident or visitor in the Queensland city about 300 kilometres north of Brisbane.<\/p>\n
The winning numbers in Oz Lotto draw 1695 were 2, 19, 27, 35, 7, 22 and 30, and the supplementary numbers were 37, 41 and 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two tickets on almost opposite ends of Australia\u2019s east coast have split a $40 million lottery bonanza. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-851782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851782","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=851782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}