\u2018I\u2019m a millionaire now\u2019<\/p>\n
The winner said she logged into the MyLotto app last Thursday morning to buy a ticket for Saturday\u2019s $40 million Powerball draw, and had a bit of money spare in her online account. <\/p>\n
She decided to try the $15 Millionaire Money Match game and moments later, she was staring at a message which said she\u2019d won the eye-watering sum. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t usually play the online Instant Kiwi games, and I actually only saw it because I bought a ticket for Powerball because the jackpot was so big.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw the game and thought I\u2019d give it a go, never expecting to win this much. When it said I had won $1 million, I thought, \u2018No … this can\u2019t be right\u2019,\u201d the woman said. <\/p>\n
She immediately called Lotto NZ to check that the life-changing win was true. <\/p>\n
The rest of her day was then spent trying to come to terms with the win and convincing her family she wasn\u2019t joking. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was walking around my house in a daze just thinking, \u2018How did that even happen? I\u2019m a millionaire now\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The woman said her family had thought she was playing a prank. <\/p>\n
While the winner was still deciding what to do with her windfall, she said one thing on her wish list was a brand new \u201cdream car\u201d. <\/p>\n
Lotto NZ head of corporate communications Will Hine said the win was a significant milestone. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile $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,\u201d Hine said. <\/p>\n
The spokesperson said Millionaire Money Match was launched last month and is the first Instant Kiwi online game to offer a $1m prize since the games were introduced to MyLotto in 2017.<\/p>\n