Check your tickets, Alstonville: Did you just win $200,000 in a recent Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw?

• Hump day might be considered a challenging day of the week, but for one Alstonville Lucky Lotteries player it could soon take a turn if they checked their ticket and discovered their $200,000 win.
• The Northern Rivers region player won the guaranteed 1st Prize of $200,000 in Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw 1586, drawn Tuesday 16 August 2022.
• The ticket is unregistered, so officials from The Lott have no way of contacting the ticketholder to break the winning news and must wait for them to come forward and claim their prize.
• The winning entry was purchased at Alstonville Newsagency, Shop 2, 29-83 Main Street, Alstonville.

Hump day might be considered a challenging day of the week, but for one Alstonville Lucky Lotteries player it could soon take a turn if they checked their ticket and discovered their $200,000 win.

The Northern Rivers region player won the guaranteed 1st Prize of $200,000 in Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw 1586, drawn Tuesday 16 August 2022.

The ticket is unregistered, so officials from The Lott have no way of contacting the ticketholder to break the winning news and must wait for them to come forward and claim their prize.

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The winning entry was purchased at Alstonville Newsagency, Shop 2, 29-83 Main Street, Alstonville.

The Alstonville Newsagency team are excited to unite their winner with their incredible 1st prize winning entry with hope they’ll discover their winning news soon.

The Lott spokesperson Frankie Figliano said she was looking forward to sharing the winning news with the ticket holder.

“The oblivious winner is likely going about their Wednesday with no clue that they’ve scored an incredible $200,000 prize in a Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot draw,” she said.

“We’re urging all players who purchased a Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot ticket from Alstonville Newsagency to check their tickets today.

“Make sure to dig through your jacket pockets, junk drawer and glove box and check your tickets online, via The Lott app or in-store.

“If you discover your ticket is the winning entry, contact The Lott on 131 868 to start the prize claim process.”

The Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot prize is now $13.49 million for draw 1587, while the Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot prize is now $22.90 million for draw 10647.

In 2021, 127 Lucky Lotteries 1st Prize and Jackpot winning entries across Australia won more than $32.95 million.

During this time, the biggest Lucky Lotteries prize was won by a Coolangatta man who a Mega Jackpot prize of $9.41 million in May.

Lucky Lotteries Super Jackpot and Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot are raffle-style games, which means there is a set number of tickets in each draw. As each ticket number is unique there is no sharing of prizes.

Each game has two draws – one that determines the winning numbers and one that determines the jackpot number. If the jackpot number matches one of the winning numbers, then the Jackpot Prize is won. If the jackpot number does not match one of the winning numbers, the Jackpot Prize will climb for the next draw.

Tickets can be purchased at any licenced lottery outlet, online from thelott.com or via The Lott mobile app.

The official home of Australia’s lotteries, The Lott operates and markets Australia’s leading lottery games customers know and love creating everyday winners, winning every day.

In 2021, more than 130.8 million winners took home more than $3.79 billion in prize money from their favourite games at The Lott, including Saturday Lotto, Monday & Wednesday Lotto, Powerball, Oz Lotto, Set for Life, Lucky Lotteries, Keno, Super 66, Lotto Strike and Instant Scratch-Its.

Last financial year, Australia’s official lotteries contributed more than $1.5 billion via state lottery taxes and donations to help community initiatives, such as hospitals, health research, disaster relief and education.