An Auckland man who lost his wallet for three days had one million reasons to celebrate when he finally found it under his bed - it was holding a winning Lotto ticket. File photo
An Auckland man who lost his wallet for three days had one million reasons to celebrate when he finally found it under his bed - it was holding a winning Lotto ticket.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was brought to tears last weekend after learning the
ticket he put in his wallet for safe-keeping won Lotto first division and a prize of $1 million.
"It was such a crazy week last week, I actually couldn't find my wallet for three days. When you lose things like that you normally expect to find them pretty quickly. But by Saturday afternoon, I was starting to think about cancelling my cards. The Lotto ticket didn't even cross my mind," he said.
He bought the ticket from Pak N Save Mt Albert for last Wednesday's draw, and upon finding his wallet and the ticket he checked it on the Lotto NZ app.
"I scanned my ticket and it came up with the message 'Major Prize Winner'. I thought I might have won $5,000 so I took a screenshot and sent it to my Mum. She messaged back saying I better go down to the dairy to check."
