A couple who won $20 million jackpot revealed their plans for the money.
The lucky players from Sunbury held the only division one winning entry nationally in Powerball draw 1436 and scooped the jackpot prize.
“Wow, oh wow!” the wife said, explaining they didn’t believe what they were seeing at first. “That’s pretty incredible!”
She continued, “We were so concerned that it wasn’t real. I think we checked the win about 10 times.
“We had to do something important this morning, so we hadn’t had a chance to check our Powerball ticket.”
When they returned home, they checked the ticket and initially thought that the $20 million that appeared was a scam.
“We manually keyed our ticket number into The Lott website and the same prize amount appeared. I checked the ticket once again, and then checked the winning numbers one more time.”
The excited wife went on: “But now that you’ve confirmed the win once again, wow! We can’t get our heads around this.
“We buy tickets into the Powerball draws irregularly… on and off.
“It’s funny because on another line of the ticket we had won a division nine prize of $12.10. That’s usually all we win!”
The couple also shared what they intend to do with their winnings.
“We will most likely help our family and friends and complete some other bits and bobs,” she expressed. “We will be keeping the news of the win to ourselves.”
The winning ticket was bought at Nextra Sunbury, with manager Melissa Hubbard saying she was thrilled to learn that the winners had come forward to claim their winnings.
“We were so excited to hear that we had sold a division one winning entry in the recent $20 million Powerball draw, and we couldn’t be happier for our winners,” she expressed.
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