‘All a dream’: Tassie man pockets enormous $70m Oz Lotto jackpot win

A Tasmanian man has claimed the $70m Oz Lotto jackpot – the second-largest jackpot prize in the lottery’s history. The winning numbers for Tuesday night’s draw 1633 were 44, 34, 45, 1, 46, 25, and 21, while the supplementary numbers were 9, 14, and 16.

The man purchased the sole winning ticket online, and despite claiming to have checked his Oz Lotteries account more than 15 times since 11pm on Tuesday – and going into work as normal on Wednesday – he had no idea that he had taken home the winning prize.

The Tasmanian man told The Lott that he was set to retire soon and purchase a home with his partner. The The Lott team called him on Wednesday morning to confirm his massive win. “Oh wow. I don’t have to come to work anymore, it’s -1C here at the moment where I am working,” he told The Lott. “I might just go and hand my resignation in right now.”

The man, the sole Division 1 winner, admitted that he couldn’t quite believe the news. “I have hardly slept all night,” he told them. “I was wondering if I was dreaming, and I was going to wake up and someone was going to say, it was all just a dream.” The man said he was hoping to spend part of his $70m winnings on a home with his partner after experiencing a “rough couple of years”. “Buying a dream home with my partner and helping my family out,” he said. “Oh, this is brilliant, absolutely brilliant … I’ve had a (rough) couple of years.

“I am just getting back on my feet and I still have a mortgage when everyone else (my age) is about to retire. “I have been saying I will have to work until I am 70 but not now”The next major jackpot will take place on Thursday, with a Division 1 Powerball prize of $50m.