\u201c… I logged in and watched the draw on the app,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe numbers just kept coming.\u201d <\/p>\n
The couple told their daughter, who did not believe them.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said, \u2018Nah it\u2019ll only be $5000 or something, give me a look,\u2019 and took the phone from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of shrieking when we all realised it was real,\u201d the mum said.<\/p>\n
Two families won more than $5m in Saturday’s Lotto draw. <\/p>\n
The extended family said they were thinking of using the winnings to pay off mortgages or purchase new homes. <\/p>\n
The second winners were a Wellington family who discovered their new $5,027,676 fortune on Sunday evening. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were on the sofa when I checked the ticket. When I heard the winning music, I looked at my wife and said, \u2018Oh my god, we won.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cShe didn\u2019t believe me at first, and to be honest I had doubts too, because we hadn\u2019t matched all six Lotto numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man said he then found out the prize rolled down after looking online. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was such a shock, all I could say was \u2018what the heck?\u2019\u201d. <\/p>\n
The couple struggled to sleep that night and have not yet decided what they will do with their win.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to take some time to figure it all out. It still doesn\u2019t feel real,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The first draw under the new game will take place tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c… I logged in and watched the draw on the app,\u201d he said. \u201cThe numbers just kept coming.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[296495,39052,1443,1970,138,14032,40671,5988,2109,5904,78,2514,5511,11927,10506,296496,1132,130,111,139,69,3766,20878,10512,1240,131,8229,6859,1237,1316,6027],"class_list":["post-601694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-10ball","tag-5m","tag-about","tag-believe","tag-business","tag-daughter","tag-draw","tag-families","tag-family","tag-final","tag-in","tag-island","tag-just","tag-landed","tag-lotto","tag-lottowinning","tag-million","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parents","tag-powerball","tag-prize","tag-south","tag-than","tag-they","tag-told","tag-two","tag-when","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601694","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=601694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}