A last-minute decision to buy a Lotto ticket paid off handsomely for an Invercargill couple who won $1 million.<\/p>\n
The man said he and his wife were “dumbfounded” when they discovered they were millionaires just before bedtime on Saturday.<\/p>\n
While getting ready to go to bed\u00a0he spotted an article saying someone from Invercargill had won $1 million<\/p>\n
\u201cI opened the app and skipped the virtual draw, expecting to see \u2018better luck next time\u2019, but this time it was different. I stared at the screen, and then closed and reopened the app a few times to make sure it wasn\u2019t some kind of glitch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He handed the phone to his wife to double check.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe thought I was joking and didn\u2019t believe me at first. We sat up for a while \u2013 both a bit dumbfounded \u2013 it still hasn\u2019t really sunk in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man usually only buys a ticket when the jackpot is high but got an email last week saying he had\u00a0$16 in his MyLotto account.<\/p>\n
After buying a non-winning ticket for Wednesday’s draw, he decided on an impulse to try his luck again on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I looked at the clock and it was 7:20pm so I made a split-second decision to buy another ticket for that night \u2013 which turned out to be a pretty good decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The couple are planning to pay off their mortgage, finish some home renovations, and invest the rest of the money for their family\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A last-minute decision to buy a Lotto ticket paid off handsomely for an Invercargill couple who won $1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-279088","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}