What would you do with R585 million?
That's a whole lot of moola and all I have been thinking of since buying a ticket for tonight's $AU90 million OZ Lotto draw.
I dont ever remember the SA lotto getting past R40 million and even this staggering prize is a first for the Aussies.
Can one person win it? Is it possible? Can a person with a South African accent and an Absa bank account take it all?
I will tell you tomorrow...
With just hours to go until Australia’s biggest lottery jackpot is drawn, thousands of West Australians are flocking ticket counters across the State.
The lure of winning tonight’s $90 million division one prize is so intense that many who have never bought tickets are joining the queues while others are forming syndicates to improve their chances of winning.
“I would say that one every in every 10 people that stand in my queue are first-time players,” said Shan Iddamalgoda, owner of the Southlake Newsagency at South Lakes.
“We have to assist them by giving them advice on how to play. Everybody is excited by this,” he said.
Lotterywest said that based on current sales, they expect tonight’s OZ Lotto draw to reach in excess of $20 million in sales, meaning that more than $6.4 million will be raised to benefit the WA community.
Lotto ticket retailers will process as many as 35 tickets a second, or 10,000 tickets every five minutes, during peak buying times, Lotterywest said.
Mr Iddamalgoda, who has hired two extra staff members to keep up with steady stream of people coming into his shop, said he could not remember it ever being so busy for a lotto draw.
“When I opened the shop this morning, there were already about 50 people waiting,” he said.
Mr Iddamalgoda said he expected to take in more than $60,000 in lotto ticket sales today, after raking in close to $50,000 yesterday.
Yesterday, 1586 people bought tickets at the Southlake Newsagency with one person buying tickets for $7000.
At the Lakeside Lottery Centre in Joondalup, owner John Kent has been kept busy organising syndicates.
While he has organised 60 of his own syndicates, he has seen a steady number of people buying in bulk, with a woman buying $16,000 worth of tickets on behalf of company-run syndicate today.
“People are very excited by tonight’s draw. They see this as their ticket out of the recession,” Mr Kent said.
The largest syndicate Mr Kent has organised was a $25,000 syndicate with a $1000 a share buy-in.
“The excitement I am seeing is comparable to Christmas. It is huge. I definitely think that it is going to be won tonight,” he said.
The lure of winning tonight’s $90 million division one prize is so intense that many who have never bought tickets are joining the queues while others are forming syndicates to improve their chances of winning.
“I would say that one every in every 10 people that stand in my queue are first-time players,” said Shan Iddamalgoda, owner of the Southlake Newsagency at South Lakes.
“We have to assist them by giving them advice on how to play. Everybody is excited by this,” he said.
Lotterywest said that based on current sales, they expect tonight’s OZ Lotto draw to reach in excess of $20 million in sales, meaning that more than $6.4 million will be raised to benefit the WA community.
Lotto ticket retailers will process as many as 35 tickets a second, or 10,000 tickets every five minutes, during peak buying times, Lotterywest said.
Mr Iddamalgoda, who has hired two extra staff members to keep up with steady stream of people coming into his shop, said he could not remember it ever being so busy for a lotto draw.
“When I opened the shop this morning, there were already about 50 people waiting,” he said.
Mr Iddamalgoda said he expected to take in more than $60,000 in lotto ticket sales today, after raking in close to $50,000 yesterday.
Yesterday, 1586 people bought tickets at the Southlake Newsagency with one person buying tickets for $7000.
At the Lakeside Lottery Centre in Joondalup, owner John Kent has been kept busy organising syndicates.
While he has organised 60 of his own syndicates, he has seen a steady number of people buying in bulk, with a woman buying $16,000 worth of tickets on behalf of company-run syndicate today.
“People are very excited by tonight’s draw. They see this as their ticket out of the recession,” Mr Kent said.
The largest syndicate Mr Kent has organised was a $25,000 syndicate with a $1000 a share buy-in.
“The excitement I am seeing is comparable to Christmas. It is huge. I definitely think that it is going to be won tonight,” he said.
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