Two friends from Northland who have played Lotto together for 16 years say it was “such a shock” to win $1 million on a bonus ticket. <\/p>\n
The winning $1 million Lotto first division ticket was sold at Woolworths Kerikeri for the draw on Wednesday, October 14. <\/p>\n
The pair, who wanted to remain anonymous, scored their prize on a bonus ticket they\u2019d won in the draw on October 10. <\/p>\n
The ticket spent days pinned to a noticeboard before one of the women took it home to check.<\/p>\n
She scanned it using the ticket checker on the MyLotto app, and a ‘major prize’ message appeared.<\/p>\n
“That’s when I thought ‘far out \u2013 we could have won something big here’.<\/p>\n
“My heart was pumping and all I could think was that I needed to call my friend.”<\/p>\n
She was unaware that there had been a big win in Northland, and not wanting to get ahead of herself, she checked the numbers before calling her friend.<\/p>\n
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“There they all were, all lined up one after the other. Then I checked how many winners there were \u2013 just one winner of $1 million. It was such a shock.”<\/p>\n
She called her friend, prompting screams down the phone as the other half of the two-person syndicate learnt what they had won.<\/p>\n
“She had me on speakerphone, so I told her husband to make her a cuppa to help her calm down,” she laughed.<\/p>\n
A couple of days later, the friends went into a store to claim their prize.<\/p>\n
“It didn’t feel real until that point. When we saw that little slip of paper with $1,000,000 on it \u2013 well, seeing is believing.”<\/p>\n
The friends were looking forward to helping their families \u2013 and for one of them, a trip to Europe was also on the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two friends from Northland who have played Lotto together for 16 years say it was “such a shock”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[219,42,43,1067,244,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-637583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-economy","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-northland","tag-personal-finance","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637583","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=637583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}