A man with a South African accent and an Absa bank account has not won Australia's record lotto Jackpot.
The jackpot which eventually swelled to over 100 million Aus dollars (R650 million) was won by two people, a Queenslander and a South Australian.
I can't even imagine how those two people must be feeling today. They each woke up $53 million dollars richer.
Yesterday's lotto draw as I said was the biggest in Australian history.
A local television station which has the rights to broadcast the live lotto draw, similar to e-tv, made a big show and dance about it, having a live count down to the big event and all.
The reckoned, that by the time those yellow balls fell into the lotto machine last night, two in three Aussies were in possession of a ticket. And the chances of winning? 45 million to one.
That meant that every person who had a ticket, including me, had a 99.9979% chance of not winning.
Anyway, according to the people who run the OZ lotto, an hour before sales closed, they were selling over 10 000 tickets a minute.
And with all the tickets that people in Perth bought - over $20 million - (Apparently Perth people are the luckiest when it comes to lotto) the most one person walked away with here was $33,468.
I wonder how the guy who bought $7 000 worth of tickets must feel today?
If I had a time machine I would go back and choose these numbers: 12, 3, 38, 21, 23, 29, 40.
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