Aussie woman ‘accidentally’ wins $5million Lotto prize – and reveals incredible plans for the money
An Australian woman had her hair turned upside down Friday morning after discovering she won more than $5 million in last night’s Powerball draw.
The woman from Logan, Queensland had the only winning entry from Division 1 in the Powerball draw 1447, drawn on Thursday, February 8, 2024. She took home a total prize of $5,098,926.32.
‘Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!’ the winning woman gasped when an official from The Lott called to confirm her windfall.
‘I don’t even know what to say!
‘What the hell happened?
“I’m sorry, I’m just having a hard time processing this news.
‘It was almost an accidental purchase! My husband normally buys our entries, but he was having a few problems, so I said, ‘Oh, I’ll just jump ahead and do it.’
An Australian woman had her hair turned upside down Friday morning after discovering she won more than $5 million in last night’s Powerball draw
‘He found out and bought an entry, but by then so had I!
‘Oh my god, our mortgage is gone!
‘This is going to change our lives! We will have to start looking at holidays abroad, perhaps new business ventures.
‘Don’t know. We have so many options!’
The woman’s winning 36-match QuickPick entry was purchased online at
– the official home of the Australian lotteries.
The winning numbers in Powerball drawing 1447 on Thursday, February 8, 2024 were 25, 12, 6, 20, 26, 16 and 7. The all-important Powerball number was 2.
There was one winning entry from the First Division in Powerball across Australia
1447 – One in Queensland.
The number of Lott’s Division 1 winners stands at 249 so far in FY24, including 57 won by Golden Casket customers.
In 2023, 20 winning Powerball Division One entries across Australia will have won more than $552.15 million in prize money.
During this time, a Bankstown father scored a $100 million jackpot and became the second biggest Australian lottery winner of all time.
Of the 20 Powerball divisions that had one winning entry in 2023, eight landed in New South Wales, seven in Victoria, two in South Australia and Western Australia, and one in Queensland.