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One-in-three Aussies set to buy tickets for upcoming $30m Megadraw

Aussies hoping to become a newly-minted millionaire in 2020 are purchasing their tickets ahead of Tattslotto’s $30 Million Megadraw, which has historically been the draw responsible for making the most millionaires each year.

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More than 1000 tickets a minute are expected to be snapped up in anticipation of Tattslotto’s $30 Million Megadraw as Aussies vie for a chance to start 2020 a newly-minted millionaire.

The biggest annual Saturday Lotto — and the draw responsible for making the most millionaires each year — it is expected up to one-in-three Australian adults will have an entry into Saturday’s game of chance.

Last year’s $30 million Saturday Lotto of the same kind created 15 overnight millionaires, with each recipient earning nearly $2 million each.

The biggest annual Saturday lotto, this draw is responsible for making the most millionaires each year.
The biggest annual Saturday lotto, this draw is responsible for making the most millionaires each year.

This year has seen more than $303 million pocketed across over 270 division one winning entries in Saturday Lottos alone throughout the country, with the Northern Territory reporting the lowest of these wins at three and Victoria deemed the ‘luckiest’ state boasting 93 division one winnings.

Australia’s biggest individual lottery win, a gargantuan $107.5 million Powerball, was drawn in January of this year to an inner-Sydney healthcare profession and mum who continues to work despite her far from modest prize.

One Melbourne father managed to win two division one prizes in a single Oz Lotto draw after accidentally purchasing two tickets with the same numbers earlier this year, his fortuitous mistake earning him more than $1.3 million overnight.

Victoria’s biggest of all-time win was a Powerball prize in 2008 of $58.7 million and the second biggest prize of $55 million was left unclaimed for nearly six months before the recipient claimed their winnings.

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Out of the Victorian Tatts outlets that sold two winning division one entries in 2019, Winning Lotteries in St Albans, delivered the most with over $24 million won in prizemoney.

The most common winning entry type this year has been marked entries, which allows participants to choose their own numbers, while the remaining winning entries have been randomly allocated QuickPick entries.

Majority of the country’s biggest individual lottery wins have been drawn this year and Saturday Lotto winners have been known to stop working altogether, buy houses for their adult children, as well as purchase unusual items such as new teeth, sandals and a new roof.

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