LUCKY WIN: A Ballarat pensioner won big in Tattslotto at the weekend.
A BALLARAT pensioner is the city’s latest multi-millionaire thanks to a set of Tattslotto numbers she had stuck with for 30 years.The woman, who remains anonymous, won $2,045,042.07 in Saturday night’s draw.She was completely overwhelmed whan Tatts phoned her with the news.“Is this really true? You’re not kidding around with me are you?,” she said.The woman said she had been playing the same 12-game entry in Tattslotto every week for more than 30 years.She had picked the numbers at random three decades ago and stuck with them ever since.When asked what she would do with her windfall, the woman said she and her husband would share some of the prize money with their children and buy themselves a holiday home.“We’ll certainly be having a very happy Christmas this year!” she said.Victoria Street News and Lotto owners Allan and Jenny Burridge, who sold the winning ticket, took over the business 18 months ago and are currently enjoying their luckiest period.Have you won Tattslotto before? Tell us belowMr Burridge said in the past eight weeks, the newsagency has sold two division 2 winning Tattslotto tickets and a winning division 2 Powerball ticket.“We’ve actually been on a bit of a roll lately,” he said.“Who knows — it might happen again.”Mr Burridge said the lucky winner had called to thank him for selling her the ticket. “She is one of our regular customers,” he said.“I’m very happy it’s gone to someone who is deserving – she was absolutely rapt.”Tatts spokeswoman Louise Azzopardi said it was fortunate the winner had her entry registered with a Tatts Card so she could be contacted.“Otherwise she could have been walking around with the winning entry in her purse all week, completely unaware of her good fortune,” Ms Azzopardi said.The Ballarat woman was one of two division 1 winners nationally on Saturday night. The lucky numbers were 2, 6, 12, 18, 44 and 45 with the supplementary numbers 28 and 32.Follow @JordanHOliver
