By Tate Papworth
Brimbank’s luckiest lotto outlets have been revealed.
There have been 14 major prize wins across Brimbank since January 1 last year with Cairnlea News and Lotto topping the list with four major prize wins.
The outlet sold two tickets with wins of more than a million dollars – the highest being $1,977,896.39 which was sold in March this year.
However it wasn’t the largest prize-winning ticket sold, that title belongs to St Albans. Winning Lotteries St Albans has sold two winning tickets this year, the highest being a $23,333,333.34 OzLotto prize which made national headlines in March.
Winning Lotteries St Albans manager Cindy said selling such a major prize was a thrill.
“We all arrived for work in the morning after that $23 million ticket was sold and there were news crews outside the shop,” she said.
“We all felt like celebrities for a day.”
The store sold another million-dollar ticket in January this year, making it the luckiest in Brimbank for the year so far.
Cindy said there’s no secret to the success.
“It’s probably all luck,” she said. “But we do have a little thing we do where we have a space for customers to donate loose change. At the end of the year we take it and donate it to the Royal Children’s Hospital. Maybe that’s bringing us and the customers a little bit of good luck.”
Other suburbs with major wins include Sunshine (two), Keilor Downs (one) and Braybrook (one). In all, the west has claimed the second highest winnings since January last year with 21 major wins totalling $64,590,979.48.
Melbourne’s northern suburbs took the title of highest winnings with 27 major prize wins.
