Two lifelong mates from Perth’s southern suburbs are over $2 million richer having claimed last Saturday’s Division 1 Lotto prize at Lotterywest HQ.
The friends have been playing Lotto together for 25 years and said they’d always hoped their lucky numbers would deliver them a win.
“Rain, hail or shine, our numbers go on every week,” one of the friends said.
“We’ve seen how lucky players from WA have been and always held out hope we’d win too,” they added.
The pair, who would usually check their ticket the night of the draw, didn’t realise that they were winners until the following day.
“I was checking our numbers in the newspaper and saw that we had four and was pretty rapt that we’d won something,” the other friend said.
“Then I saw that we had all six and thought I must be dreaming,” they added.
The friends, who go halves in a Lotto ticket each week, said it was cost effective to play together.
“And now we get to share the joy of a win,” they added.
The ticket, which was sold at Jungle News and Lotto in Geraldton, not only marks WA’s third Division 1 win for this year but the third sold by the store.
Thanks to support from players like this, Lotterywest is able to raise funds to benefit WA’s health, sports and arts sectors, as well as thousands of community groups across the State.
In the last 12 months alone, Lotterywest has provided almost half a million dollars to support the community of Geraldton.
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