A Hamilton woman has returned from a trip away to discover she had been holding onto a Lotto Powerball ticket worth $10.5 million.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, had bought tickets for multiple draws before leaving for her trip and remembered to get them checked after they fell out while she was rummaging through her bag.
“I won a few bonus lines on one which was great, and then the Lotto operator just stopped and looked at me, then back at the screen, and back to me again – I wondered what was going on.
“He said ‘you’re our first division winner.’ I just said, ‘oh my god, oh my god, you’re kidding me?’'”
The woman said she didn’t even know how much she had won at that point but had to sit down as she was “shaking like a leaf”.
“There’s no words – it’s just so unbelievable. I’m walking around with a great big grin on my face.”
She hasn’t made any plans yet but is looking forward to sharing the news with her family.
The winning ticket was sold at Glenview Centre Lotto & Post in Hamilton for the draw on Saturday February 8.
