Australia's biggest lottery victor has been found, with an Adelaide antheral contacting lottery officials this morning.
He is present $150 cardinal richer and amazingly went to enactment this morning.
'I cognize it whitethorn dependable crazy, but I'm going to proceed working. I'm astatine enactment today.'
The middle-aged Adelaide antheral held the lone part 1 winning introduction successful Powerball gully 1462, drawn connected Thursday night.
The antheral said helium was successful a authorities of shock.
'Woohoo. I'm inactive pinching myself. I can't judge it. I'm the enigma winner. I'm Australia's biggest lottery victor ever.'
The fortunate victor said helium looked astatine the timepiece past nighttime and saw it was getting late, truthful helium thought the gully should person been done by then.
'So, I checked the archetypal 1 and it came up with nothing, past I scanned the 2nd 1 and it said $150 million. I've ne'er screamed truthful large oregon jumped truthful high.
'This was precocious past night, and I inactive haven't slept. I've conscionable kept checking the ticket.'
Australia's biggest lottery victor has been recovered with an Adelaide antheral contacting lottery officials this greeting with his winning Powerball summons worthy $150 cardinal (stock image)
The winning introduction was purchased astatine OTR Salisbury Drive Thru successful Adelaide's north
The winning introduction was purchased astatine OTR Salisbury Drive Thru, 142 Salisbury Highway successful Salisbury, a suburb northbound of Adelaide.
The antheral already has plans for what to bash with his caller fortune.
'I'll bargain a house, I privation to question the world, and I've got a household and friends I privation to help, but for now, I can't wrapper my caput astir however large this prize is.'
'This is life-changing. I can't halt smiling and pinching myself. I can't judge my luck.'
In summation to the $150 cardinal part 1 winner, determination were 4,433,211 winners crossed divisions 2 to 9 successful past night's Powerball draw.
They collectively took location much than $89.3 million. This included 9 part 2 winners who each took location $276,036.95.
The winning numbers successful Powerball gully 1462 connected Thursday, 23 May 2024, were 18, 29, 34, 8, 4, 28 and 6. The Powerball fig was 11.
The Lott's part 1 winning tally has present reached 368 truthful acold successful the 2024 fiscal year, including 26 won by SA Lotteries customers.
In 2023, 20 Powerball part 1 winning entries crossed Australia pocketed much than $552.15 cardinal successful prize money.
During this time, a Bankstown dada scored a $100 cardinal jackpot and became the second-biggest Australian lottery victor of each time.
Of the 20 Powerball part 1 winning entries successful 2023, 8 landed successful New South Wales, 7 successful Victoria, 2 each successful South Australia and Western Australia, and 1 successful Queensland.
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