{"id":1000620,"date":"2022-02-22T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/22\/australian-lottery-winners-ticket-bought-2-minutes-before-cut-off-time\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T23:14:00","slug":"australian-lottery-winners-ticket-bought-2-minutes-before-cut-off-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/22\/australian-lottery-winners-ticket-bought-2-minutes-before-cut-off-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian lottery winner’s ticket bought 2 minutes before cut-off time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Seven Hills, Australia, woman won a\u00a0$457,268.84 lottery prize with a Saturday Lotto ticket she bought just two minutes before the drawing’s cut-off time. Photo courtesy of The Lott<\/p>\n

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Feb. 22 (UPI) —<\/span> An Australian woman won a lottery jackpot of nearly $500,000 with a ticket she bought just 2 minutes before the cut-off time for the drawing.<\/p>\n

The Seven Hills, New South Wales, woman told The Lott officials she went online to purchase her Saturday Lotto ticket at what was nearly the literal last minute.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

“I’m a regular player, but I nearly forgot about it on the weekend. I only got this ticket two minutes before the draw’s close,” the player said.<\/p>\n

The player said she checked her ticket after the drawing Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

“I checked my ticket just after the draw. I got online and had a look. I scrolled down. It was a big moment,” she recalled.<\/p>\n

The ticket earned the woman a Division One prize of $457,268.84.<\/p>\n

“This prize is going to put me in a good spot. It’s going to keep me very comfortable and allow me to retire early,” the winner said. “I don’t need anything extravagant in life. I just want to live a comfortable and happy life.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Seven Hills, Australia, woman won a\u00a0$457,268.84 lottery prize with a Saturday Lotto ticket she bought just two minutes before the drawing’s cut-off time. Photo courtesy of The Lott Feb. 22 (UPI) — An Australian woman won a lottery jackpot of nearly $500,000 with a ticket she bought just 2 minutes before the cut-off time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1000621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}