The $15m Big Wednesday jackpot was won last night. Photo / File
The $15m Big Wednesday jackpot was won last night. Photo / File
The new year looks a whole lot better for one lucky person, who picked up $15 million in the Big Wednesday draw last night.
The winning ticket was sold at the Caltex Station on Karamu Rd in Hastings, which also sold the second division-winning ticket - presumably to the sameperson.
Lotto spokeswoman Victoria Barton-Chapple said it had been an exciting run, as the jackpot had been rolling over since September 12, when a Tauranga man in his twenties won $27 million.
Ms Barton-Chapple said interest had become increasingly high as the jackpot grew.
"It's been running for a long time and we've just been waiting and waiting for it to go and tonight it's finally happened," she said.
Last September in Tauranga, a young man who described himself as a "typical Kiwi bloke" won the big prize after he went to get a haircut and found that the barber was closed.
He decided to use the money on a Big Wednesday ticket.
