“… I logged in and watched the draw on the app,” he said.
“The numbers just kept coming.”
The couple told their daughter, who did not believe them.
“She said, ‘Nah it’ll only be $5000 or something, give me a look,’ and took the phone from me.”
“There was a lot of shrieking when we all realised it was real,” the mum said.
Two families won more than $5m in Saturday’s Lotto draw.
The extended family said they were thinking of using the winnings to pay off mortgages or purchase new homes.
The second winners were a Wellington family who discovered their new $5,027,676 fortune on Sunday evening.
“We were on the sofa when I checked the ticket. When I heard the winning music, I looked at my wife and said, ‘Oh my god, we won.’
“She didn’t believe me at first, and to be honest I had doubts too, because we hadn’t matched all six Lotto numbers.”
The man said he then found out the prize rolled down after looking online.
“It was such a shock, all I could say was ‘what the heck?’”.
The couple struggled to sleep that night and have not yet decided what they will do with their win.
“We’re going to take some time to figure it all out. It still doesn’t feel real,” he said.
Lotto said the families are now part of history, becoming the final winners of the 10-ball Powerball game before the new 14-ball version began last Sunday.
The first draw under the new game will take place tonight.