A major lottery ticket worth more than $950,000 went unclaimed for days.
The News Extra store in Central City Toowoomba, Queensland, sold one of the 21 division-winning tickets in draw 4489 of the $20 million Saturday Gold Lotto last weekend.
The unregistered ticket was purchased as part of a 24-person syndicate that raised $952,380.96.
Owner Tanya Talbot said the kiosk sold tickets to two winners of the syndicate’s first division and the group also won “multiple prizes” in other divisions, bringing their prize money to $44,428.62 each.
“The first thing is to know that they bought a ticket from us, we sold two first division winners that night from that syndicate,” he told The Chronicle.
“You have to bring us your ticket so we can see if you have won.”
Further north in the Sunshine State, a Yeppoon man and fellow division one winner has vowed to buy his wife a dazzling diamond ring and pay off the mortgage on their home.
“It just prepares us,” he said.
A 24-person syndicate in Queensland has won almost $1 million, but has yet to be paid
The first division lottery winner promised to give his wife “any diamond ring she wants”
“This kind of thing doesn’t happen to people like my wife and I. Usually, just when you feel like you’re moving forward, something comes along that sets you back a little bit,” he told The Lott.
“I’ll give my wife any diamond ring she wants. She’ll get a big stone.
‘We will also share the prize money with our children and pay the mortgage.’
The numbers for last week’s draw 4489 were 4, 37, 45, 27, 11 and 20, with supplementary numbers 15 and 10.
