One person has won the $2m Oz Lotto jackpot

Last week two people split the $30 million jackpot and now Oz Lotto has made another millionaire. Check the numbers here to see if it is you.

Oz Lotto’s jackpot has gone off again just a week after two people split the $30 million jackpot.

This week one person managed to select all the right numbers and will walk away with a little over $2.6 million.

The lucky numbers this week were 23, 3, 26, 31, 1, 41, 34 and the two supplementaries were 36 and 16.

So far in 2021 there have been 17 Oz Lotto division one winning entries that have collectively taken home more than $277 million in division one prize money.

Six winners were from Victoria, five were from New South Wales, three wins were secured in Western Australia, two wins landed in Queensland and one was from the Northern Territory.

If the $2 million prize is not snatched up tonight, it will continue to climb every week until someone picks the right numbers.

Nobody has won the $2 million base prize this year, with the number continuing to soar.

The last time a prize of that magnitude was won was in November last year, by a South Australian.

The lotto is back to base.

A Salisbury man in his 40s couldn’t believes his luck when he learned he’d scored $2.4 million from the lottery in November 2020.

“Bloody hell! Are you serious? Wow! That’s amazing! Thank you so much!” he said.

“Wow, I’m a little bit shocked and shaking, to be honest. I didn’t expect to hear that when I answered the phone. Wow, thank you. It feels amazing to know that I’ll be a multi-millionaire. I don’t know what to say. My god.”

He told lottery officials how he planned to splash his cash.

“The first thing I’ll do is pay off the home loan. It will be done and dusted,” he said.

“My partner and I run our own business, and we’ve been working extremely hard at the moment to get it going. This will make it just much easier and take the pressure off.

“It will be great to cut back down on work a little bit. I’m sure my other half will convince me to take a holiday too.

“I’ve got a busy day ahead at work with clients so I can’t take the rest of the day off work. I’m going to call my partner right now and tell her the good news. She probably won’t believe me. We’ll definitely be getting takeaway tonight to celebrate.”

A man won the base prize last year.

However, winning the lottery isn’t all good news, according to some.

A Sydney man won $30 million last year and exclusively spoke to news.com.au and told of an unexpected downside.

The ex-tradie aged in his 30s told news.com.au: “What my motto has become, I guess winning the lotto doesn’t make you any happier, it just makes life easier.

“If you’re not happy, and you want to win the lottery (to change that) you’re going to be terribly mistaken.”

He had a lot of “weird” experiences when he told friends and family about the windfall.

“People have come out of the woodwork,” he explained.

“A lot of people find out through the grape vine, they never actually ask you. I had someone that I haven’t even seen since I was in school, probably 15 years ago.”

One very close friendship soured because “they didn’t take it well” when he told them he was now a multi-millionaire.