Feb. 11 (UPI) —<\/span> An Australian man had extra reason to celebrate on his birthday when a scratch-off lottery ticket he received as a gift earned him a jackpot of more than $185,000.<\/p>\n The Noosa, Queensland, man told The Lott officials he received the Live the Life scratch-off ticket as a birthday present.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n “I received this as a gift from my family for my birthday,” he said. “I actually scratched it on my birthday on the weekend. I did it first thing in the morning.”<\/p>\n The man said he was stunned when he say he had won a jackpot of $185,546.40.<\/p>\n “I thought it was too good to be true,” he recalled. “I showed a few friends and some family, and they weren’t sure about it either. They thought it might be a novelty ticket or we’d just confused ourselves thinking we’d won something good.”<\/p>\n The player said reality didn’t set in until he took the ticket to a lottery office and the prize was confirmed.<\/p>\n “I was blown away! It’s made turning another year older a hell of a lot easier,” he said. “It was a very pleasant surprise. I’m not sure how my family is going to top this birthday next year!”\n<\/p>\n The man said he and his family are still considering how to spend the winnings.<\/p>\n “We’re thinking we might use it to enjoy our retirement and travel around Australia,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Noosa, Australia, man said a scratch-off lottery ticket that was given to him as a birthday present turned out to be a winner worth more than $185,000. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo Feb. 11 (UPI) — An Australian man had extra reason to celebrate on his birthday when a scratch-off lottery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987070","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\/987070","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=987070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nA Noosa, Australia, man said a scratch-off lottery ticket that was given to him as a birthday present turned out to be a winner worth more than $185,000. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n