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You have to be very lucky to win $20,000 in Powerball.
So when a woman thought she had walked away with a five-figure sum after a bad run of luck, she was naturally happy.
But when the delighted woman showed the ticket to her family, they gave her momentous news.
A woman who was using her lucky lottery numbers for what she said was the last time in Thursday’s Powerball drawing thought she had won $20,000 and was delighted, but she had actually won $20 million (File Image)
He hadn’t won $20,000 at all; In fact, he had won $20 million with his seven-numbered Powerball combination as the only winner of the first division.
“I looked at it and then ran to my family and said, ‘I’ve won $20,000!'” the woman from Gladstone in New South Wales told The Lott officials.
“They looked at it and then they looked at me and said, ‘No, you haven’t. You’ve won 20 million dollars!”
The woman said she would have been happy to have won a $20,000 prize, but is now “in fairyland” for this life-changing victory.
“I still can’t believe it,” he said. “I keep thinking I’ll wake up and come back to reality.”
He broke down in tears when asked what he would do with the huge prize and told lottery officials that he had been waiting “for one of (their) calls for years.”
He plans to buy a house and travel around the world with his earnings.
The woman had used the same lottery numbers for years and was about to give up those digits before winning the jackpot.
‘I thought, ‘I think I’ll keep it for another week.’ Maybe I’ll get lucky,’ she said.
“It’s got a couple of birthdays in there, but they’re the same numbers I’ve been playing over and over again for a long time.”
“I’ve been putting them on every week, but recently I thought I might get rid of them completely.”
When she checked her ticket on Friday morning, the woman got the surprise of her life when she realized she had the winning numbers. stock image
Luckily for her, she stuck to the numbers one last time.
‘I keep thinking I’ll wake up and come back to reality. “I’m about to accept it,” she said.
The anonymous woman bought her winning ticket at Gladstone Newsagency & General Store, whose owners were delighted to have paid their first multi-million dollar ticket.
Owners Kevin and Robyn McNaught said they were feeling “optimistic” and “excited to know we’ve helped change someone’s life.”