A Tasman woman has won the first ever $1 million prize from an Instant Kiwi online game.<\/p>\n
Lotto NZ said the game, Millionaire Money Match, was launched last month \u2013 the first Instant Kiwi game to offer a $1 million prize since the games were introduced to MyLotto in 2017.<\/p>\n
Prior to this win, the largest prize won on Instant Kiwi online was $200,000.<\/p>\n
The winner said she initially logged into the MyLotto app last Thursday morning to buy a ticket for Saturday’s $40 million Powerball draw.<\/p>\n
She then had a bit of spare money in her online account, and decided to try the $15 Millionaire Money Match game.<\/p>\n
The woman said “she couldn’t believe it” when she found out she won.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know how to react \u2013 whether I should laugh, cry or scream.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t usually play the online Instant Kiwi games \u2013 and I actually only saw it because I bought a ticket for Powerball because the jackpot was so big.”<\/p>\n
The woman added she saw the game and decided to give it a go, “never expecting to win this much”.<\/p>\n
“When it said I had won $1 million, I thought, ‘no… this can’t be right’.”<\/p>\n
She called Lotto NZ to check on her win, and said she was “walking around my house in a daze thinking ‘how did that happen? I’m a millionaire now’.”<\/p>\n
“My family thought I was playing a prank on them.”<\/p>\n
Lotto NZ head of corporate communications Will Hine said the win was a significant milestone for the game.<\/p>\n
“We’re excited to celebrate our first ever Instant Kiwi online millionaire.<\/p>\n
“While $1 million prizes have previously been won in-store on our Instant Kiwi scratchies, this is the first time we\u2019ve had an online winner claim a prize that big.”<\/p>\n
Lotto NZ said the winner was still deciding what to do with her windfall, but one thing on her wishlist was a brand new “dream car”.<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, two Powerball players became overnight multimillionaires<\/a> after sharing the $40 million jackpot, taking home $20.1 million each. On Sunday, it was revealed the players were from Auckland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tasman woman has won the first ever $1 million prize from an Instant Kiwi online game. Lotto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,2224],"class_list":["post-549136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tasman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549136","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=549136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}