Lotto

[guest49]

We have a member from Masterton.  Do we now have a millionare amongst us?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2498873/Masterton-Lotto-winner-takes-home-5m

[Lovelee]

   I havent been into the LOTTO site to check our tickets yet.  I know heaps of people in Masterton .. whoopeeee 

[Lovelee]

nope - just a bonus ticket this week 

[dragontamer]

**frowns at Yak**

Dammit man, I was still under the delusion it could have been me.   

[Magoo]

I got nuffin.

[TokGal]

I forgot to get a ticket 

[Alicat]

We have a member from Masterton.  Do we now have a millionare amongst us?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2498873/Masterton-Lotto-winner-takes-home-5m

I do not believe that member from Masterton bought a ticket. A close relative of his bought her ticket at Thorndon New World so I guess SHE will have to carry on working for living.

[guest49]

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Fanta celebration for Lotto winner

Stokes Valley winner plans to ‘use the money wisely’

NZPA | 3:43PM - Monday, 20 July 2009

Two big winners from Saturday's Lotto draw claimed their prizes in Wellington today.

NZ Lotteries chief executive Todd McLeay said the winner of the top $1 million Lotto first division prize sold at Pak N Save Kilbirnie was the first to claim his prize.

The Wellington man, who wished to remain anonymous, doesn't drink alcohol and was looking forward to celebrating with a can of Fanta.

He said he had not made any decisions about what he was going to do with his windfall.

Meanwhile, the winner of a $442,051 Lotto Strike prize sold at New World Stokes Valley almost didn't buy a Lotto Strike ticket.

"I was only going to get a Lotto Powerball ticket, but the girl at the Lotto counter told me I should consider getting a Triple Dip as that would enter me in Lotto's Hot 100 promotion."

"It was the Strike ticket in the Triple Dip that won me the top prize," he said.

"I'm going back to the store to thank that Lotto operator as I would never have won otherwise."

The man, who also wished to remain anonymous, said that he was looking at buying a business with his winnings.

"I plan to use the money wisely so that I can create a nice future for myself," he said.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/2610634/Fanta-celebration-for-Lotto-winner

[Shef]

Hope he bought her more than a can of fanta

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Masterton ‘luckiest for Lotto in 2009’

NZPA | 12:31PM - Wednesday, 06 January 2010



Masterton's big Lotto win has seen it easily top the list as New Zealand Lotteries' luckiest district for 2009.

In June a family syndicate won New Zealand's largest ever lottery prize, a $36 million Big Wednesday jackpot, with a ticket bought from a Masterton lotto shop. The shop also sold a $5.1m Lotto Powerball ticket in February.

On a per capita basis, with almost $50m won in 2009, the Masterton district won $2116 on average per head of population, NZ Lotteries said today.

That put it well ahead of Waipa in second place, with $433 per capita, thanks mainly to a $16m Powerball prize in May.

Gore District was third on $144 per capita - boosted by three first division lotto wins last year.

Manukau, Lower Hutt, Kawerau, Thames-Coromandel, Taupo, North Shore and Gisborne rounded out the top 10.

NZ Lotteries chief executive Todd McLeay said the numbers showed the top districts on a per capita winning basis were south of the Bombay Hills, dispelling the myth that Auckland got all the big prizes.

The 2008 winner, Buller, still fared well with $85 per head making it 15th out of 72 districts around the country.

However, the worst performing districts were Waitomo with $21, Manawatu, $25.20 and western Bay of Plenty, with $25.70 per head of population.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3209568/Masterton-luckiest-for-Lotto-in-2009


See also the following threads....

     • The luckiest Lotto numbers

     • 25 mill tonight

     • WAIRARAPA — “glistening waters” (scroll down the page to Reply #4 onwards)

[nitpicker1]

How a huge lotto win turned into a $17m feud
By Greg Ansley 4:00 AM Friday Apr 9, 2010
 

Three mates were just a sleepover away from a fortune as they partied in the Melbourne seaside suburb of Callum almost two years ago.

They awoke the next morning to learn that overnight they had become millionaires.

Their quick draw ticket in the Tattersalls Oz Lotto had come home with more than A$13 million ($17 million).

But within weeks their luck turned sour as the three fell out.

Deals and compromises struck in backyard arguments and car-seat negotiations collapsed into a bitter feud that will this month see Eugene Te Pairi, an expatriate Kiwi from Hawkes Bay, former close mate Brett Pretty and Gary Garlick slug it out in Victoria's grand sandstone Supreme Court.

At stake is the distribution of the huge payout, much of which remains frozen by the court.

None of the three has so far much to show for their good fortune.


Mr Te Pairi is paying the mortgage on a new home in the upmarket Mornington Peninsula suburb of Mt Eliza.

Melbourne's Herald Sun reported that Mr Pretty has a new car and a campervan, and Mr Garlick bought an HSV Clubsport sedan that was damaged in an accident shortly afterwards and is now sitting in his garage.

And their friendship is over.

Documents filed with the court track a cautionary tale that began in July 2008 as Mr Garlick arrived to party with Mr Te Pairi and Mr Pretty at the home the two mates of 20 years shared at Callum, close to the waters of Port Phillip Bay.

The statement of claim filed by Mr Te Pairi and Mr Garlick says the three pooled their money, using $340 for a ticket in that night's Oz Lotto draw.

The statement said Mr Te Pairi threw in A$185, Mr Garlick A$80 and Mr Pretty about A$75, and Mr Pretty bought a 24-game ticket from a nearby news agency, registered on Mr Garlick's Tatts card.

The next day, Tattersalls called with the good news: the ticket had won Division One, worth A$13.18 million.

Within days the mates started to fall out. Mr Te Pairi and Mr Garlick claim the three had agreed Mr Pretty would collect the prize and pay the others their shares.

Their statement of claim says the agreement was a joint venture with either the three holding equal shares or each being paid a share of the prize according to the amount he had contributed to the price of the ticket.

But in a late-night barney at the Callum house, Mr Pretty said Mr Garlick was entitled to nothing and that the lot should go to him and Mr Te Pairi.

The next day, as the pair drove to Mr Garlick's house, Mr Pretty again tried to cut the third man out.

Instead, the three agreed on a compromise: Mr Garlick would get A$1.3 million and a new car of his choice, and Mr Te Pairi would get A$6 million - half immediately and half held in trust in an interest-bearing term deposit.

Mr Te Pairi and Mr Pretty would also share an A$187,000 "party pool".

A few days later, the deal changed again.

Mr Garlick would get A$2 million as soon as Mr Pretty received the payout from Tattersalls.

But in August, only A$1.3 million was put into his bank account.

Mr Te Pairi received his A$3 million, and a further A$45,000 in two payments later in the year from the "party pool". The deal was to change yet again, the statement of claim says.

In November 2008, it was agreed Mr Te Pairi's trust fund would be reduced from A$3 million to A$2.5 million and Mr Pretty would keep A$5.5 million.

The following month, Mr Te Pairi demanded Mr Pretty pay him the money held in trust and the balance of Mr Te Pairi's share of the "party pool".

Mr Pretty refused to pay up, the statement of claim says.

Mr Pretty rejects almost all of this version of events. In a counterclaim, he says he had decided to make multi-million "gifts" to his mates.

He says he had asked Mr Te Pairi what he would need to set himself up for life and to look after his family.

Mr Te Pairi said he would need A$3 million, and Mr Pretty agreed to give him it.

Mr Pretty says he had at first refused a request by Mr Te Pairi to give Mr Garlick A$1 million, but later agreed to pay him A$1.3 million.

He says his two colleagues then demanded Mr Garlick receive another A$700,000, which he agreed to under protest, signing a statutory declaration. But he says he told the pair Mr Garlick would not get the money and they would "never get the [statutory declaration] through a court".

Mr Pretty also says that the A$45,000 paid to Mr Te Pairi was a loan, and he is seeking its repayment, with interest.

The case is set down for a 10-day hearing starting on April 19.

ALREADY LIVING THE HIGH LIFE

He may not be Howard Hughes, but maybe-multimillionaire Eugene Te Pairi, an expatriate Kiwi from Hawkes Bay, is already living some of the style.

Tucked away in a recently bought home in the affluent Mornington Peninsula enclave of Mt Eliza,on the outskirts of Melbourne, Mr Te Pairi is surrounded by the rich and many on the way to becoming so.

How life pans out now depends on a 10-day hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court this month concerning a A$13 million ($17 million) lotto win by him and two mates.

Mr Te Pairi's former associates, Garry Garlick and Brett Pretty, have gone to ground ahead of the case.

So has Mr Te Pairi.

He lives in a long, elegant home in Mt Eliza, with a drive gently arcing through a lush front garden surrounded by a beige brick and wrought-iron fence.

Yesterday, the driveway was filled with white four-wheel-drives.

An associate of Mr Te Pairi answered the door to the Herald and politely said Mr Te Pairi was "done with the press".

"They've been all over us. We had [TV show] A Current Affair at five in the morning getting on to us. We've been inundated."

By Greg Ansley

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10637226&pnum=0

[Magoo]

 
You can take the boy out of the gutter but you can't take the gutter... oh never mind... they deserve one another.

[sickofpollies]

There's another article somewhere which shows who the real winners of this Lotto draw were and will be...lawyers!

[nitpicker1]

I don't often buy tickets, but once got a coupla lucky dips for my #1 daughter and myself 'cos our birthdays are close together.  Sent one to her, kept the other. Have only recently told her. I've been embarrassed ever since 'cos mine paid out $500  (I used it buying a new lappy,)

Big winners often wish they hadn't won, it often screws up their lives.

Breaking news

UK lotto winner jailed after using windfall to launch child porn site
From correspondents at The Sun in London
From: NewsCore April 08, 2010 8:39AM

A BRITISH lottery winner who used his winnings to set up an internet business peddling child porn was jailed.

The Sun said today Carl Gardner, 30, scooped £50,000 ($76,000) three years ago and ran a pedophile ring from his home in Norwich.

He was jailed for three years and four months after admitting to making and possessing indecent images of children and possessing "extreme" adult porn.


http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/uk-lotto-winner-jailed-after-using-windfall-to-launch-child-porn-site/story-e6frfku0-1225851212523


more at http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/eveningnews24/norwich-news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=NewsSplash&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=xNews&itemid=NOED07%20Apr%202010%2008%3A27%3A52%3A403

[nitpicker1]

Punters miss $50m in prizes

By Matt Nippert
4:00 AM Sunday May 9, 2010
 

Kiwis are missing out on a $10 million goldmine in unclaimed Lotto prizes each year, despite unprecedented efforts by the Lotteries Commission to trace unsuspecting winners.

Figures released under the Official Information Act show people have missed out on $50million in the past five years, mainly in special draws.

Already this year tickets worth at least $250,000 have been sold in Auckland, Whakatane, Hamilton and Christchurch.

The commission does everything possible to find winners, including issuing wanted posters.

One Gisborne woman was shocked to find a grainy picture of herself plastered on a wall in her local supermarket last October. The poster read: "New Zealand Lotteries is very interested in speaking to this woman."

"The way they put it, it looked like I'd stolen something," said Mary, who withheld her last name.

She was tracked down after Lotteries bosses learned an unclaimed ticket worth more than $30,000 had been sold at the Gisborne Pak'n Save.

They identified the winner after cross-checking the time the ticket was bought with store camera footage.

Mary was one of four people who claimed to be the mystery buyer. All claimed they had lost the winning ticket.

But after a month-long verification process, including checking bank records and assessments of Mary's distinctive sneakers worn in the surveillance footage, she received a $31,500 cheque just before Christmas.

Mary said it was a case of being saved by the surveillance society: "God, yes, it's like 1984, isn't it?"

Lotteries Commission spokeswoman Karen Jones said the organisation went to great lengths to find winners before their tickets expired.

Prizes unclaimed after a year are put into a fund that is added back into the prize pool.

The biggest outstanding ticket, worth $291,179, was sold by the Whakatane Paper Plus in March. Store owner Judi Norman said she asked all her regular customers to check their pockets.

"It would be great if we knew who it was."

This week a Dunedin man claimed $410,001 after his wife urged him to check old tickets sitting in his wallet.

And last month a Ponsonby man claimed a $509,937 Lotto prize the day before his winning ticket would have expired.

Richmond Rd Superette owner Manhar Patel said the half-million-dollar man had since visited the place where he bought his ticket.

"He came in with a bunch of flowers. He's very happy and lucky, but one day later it would have been a sob story."

By Matt Nippert

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10643709

[Justic]

I hardly ever buy a ticket but I did yesterday and have always said to my closest if I won I would divide it equally between us.

The $23 I collected today divided by 7 wont buy much

[Magoo]

You fared better than I did Justic.   I don't think I got more than two numbers in most lines and none at all in three lines.  There were 15.   I only buy a ticket on rare occasions.    Himself was convinced one of the 10 cars was to be his. 

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Flatmates dine out on Lotto win

NZPA | 12:47PM - Wednesday, 19 May 2010

A group of Christchurch flatmates are dining out on a big Lotto win with a steak dinner.

The flatmates' syndicate decided to upgrade their dinner menu after discovering a six-month-old Lotto ticket worth $250,000.

One flatmate checked a handful of old tickets while out doing the groceries.

"At first I thought we had won $25, but then I saw all the zeros on the end...it was so exciting and I still can't really believe it," she said.

"None of us have very healthy bank accounts, so this win has come at such a good time for us. We won't be having mince on the menu tonight at the flat — we can upgrade to a steak dinner."

Their ticket, sold at the New Brighton Paper Plus on November 14, was part of the Lotto Wishlist promotion.

NZ Lotteries' chief executive Todd McLeay said it was unusual for a prize to be claimed six months after the draw.

"Usually we hear from our excited big prize winners within a week or two," he said.

"However, this is a good reminder to always check your tickets — as every year we have several prizes that expire before they are claimed."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3714386/Flatmates-dine-out-on-Lotto-win

[ssweetpea]

Mr Sp was under instructions to buy the work sinicate tickets somewhere different cos' they weren't happy with the lack of winnings from our local shop.

So if next week's winner is from some obcure spot on the coast of South Island there maybe some very happy Jafas.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Glenfield shoppers buzz over $13.8m Powerball win

By LINCOLN TAN and ELIZABETH BINNING - The New Zealand Herald | 4:00AM - Monday, June 28, 2010


Saurabh Patel's store in Glenfield Mall sold the ticket that netted Saturday night's jackpot.
 — Photo: Sarah Ivey.

He didn't win the big one himself but Saurabh Patel is still a very happy man.

The Magazine City and Lotto co-owner was buzzing with excitement yesterday after discovering his store in Glenfield Mall had sold Saturday night's $13.8 million Lotto Powerball ticket.

While the winner had not been in to claim the prize yesterday, dozens of other curious people came to check their tickets and find out if anyone knew the identity of the lucky ticket holder.

"[A staff member] opened up at 10 o'clock and he had a queue of people waiting to check their tickets," said Mr Patel.

"We are quite excited to see the winner ... Everybody is coming in and asking."

Mr Patel said there was no way of knowing at this stage when the ticket was bought or if it was a Lucky Dip. He believed the prize had gone to a local resident because the mall tended to attract locals.

He said there was a chance the winner did not know yet. "There are some people who never check their tickets; they just bring it in."

The store has also sold two first division winners. They were for $1 million each and both were redeemed at other Lotto outlets.

Saturday's win — $13,290,012 in Powerball and $564,675 in Lotto's first division — was the biggest prize of the year. "It's quite exciting. Hopefully this time we will be able to see the winner."

Mr Patel planned to celebrate the win by decorating his store today with posters, a big banner and possibly T shirts for the staff.

Meanwhile, the Masterton family who last year scooped New Zealand's largest Lotto jackpot, $36 million, say they have not allowed the big win to change their lives.

The winning syndicate was made up of a 73-year-old great-grandmother, who wants to be known only as Margaret, her daughters Siobhan and Fiona and a granddaughter now aged 20.

Other than buying a modest townhouse, Fiona told last night's Sunday programme she was still continuing her work as a nurse because of "passion".

Her sister, Siobhan, is still working in a bakery. "One thing we were told when we won was that most people that win Lotto would lose it in five years," Fiona said.

"We want to protect our families for generations to come, so we are basically spending it wisely by putting it away."

Granddaughter Alicia, a single mother, is now engaged — but her money is held in a trust until she turns 30.

But a pre-nuptial agreement is "assured" to be part of her wedding arrangements.

The family have also made several donations to local charities and towards buying an ambulance for a hospital.

When Margaret was asked if money brought happiness, she said it didn't. "Happiness is having a wonderful family, children, wonderful friends and being able to help people."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10654927

[ssweetpea]

Mum got very excited over that.

Last week she had bought her ticket there, the first time she had ever done so.

When she checked it she had won....

























....$22

So the dream of a big piece of land with room for 3 or 4 houses (one for Mum and Dad, one for me and family, one for sis and family and perhaps one for bro and family), orchard, various gardens and some large sheds for the blokes of the family will have to wait for another week.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

New Lotto multi-millionaire lying low

By KATIE MARRINER - The New Zealand Herald | 4:00AM - Wednesday, June 30, 2010



A new multi-millionaire is carrying on with life as normal while their $13.8 million Lotto Powerball prize remains unclaimed from Saturday night.

The ticket was bought at Magazine City and Lotto on Auckland's North Shore, but so far no one has come forward to claim the prize or notify lottery organisers.

According to the Lotteries Commission, it is not uncommon for a big winner to wait a few days, however it is unusual that the winner of Saturday's fortune has not contacted the commission at all.

"They would normally phone us to make sure they have the winning ticket and get it into the system," spokeswoman Karen Jones said.

She told the Herald the winner was likely to be aware of their windfall but concerns about attracting unwanted attention might be stopping them from collecting the cash.

"What people want to do is choose how they tell people in their own time. It's quite a big decision whether they tell their friends and family ... people like to do that in a bit of peace and quiet."

The North Shore booty is the second unclaimed Lotto prize in the past month.

A Hamilton ticket won $4.7 million, which remains unclaimed from the Big Wednesday first division draw on June 16.

Lotto prizes must be claimed within a year, or they disappear into a fund, which is used to top up future prizes.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10655415

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Missing Lotto millionaires emerge

NZPA | 4:00AM - Friday, July 02, 2010



A Hamilton couple never dreamed they were $4.7 million richer when they read about an unclaimed Lotto prize in a local newspaper.

The Big Wednesday first division prize was struck two weeks ago but no one came forward to claim the prize.

NZ Lotteries chief executive Todd McLeay said the couple read about the prize but had no idea it was theirs and checked their ticket only "on a whim".

The winning man told NZ Lotteries: "When the ticket checker said I had the top prize I just went, ‘Oh s***!’"

The win almost didn't happen, he said. "I was heading out for a run and my wife said to me, ‘Don't stop at the wine store and don't buy a lottery ticket’, so I ran on past the Lotto store. But then I decided ‘stuff it’ and doubled back to the store and bought [it]."

"She's pretty happy that I didn't listen to her ... this time anyway!"

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10655873

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Lotto Powerball jackpots to $27m

NZPA | 5:00AM - Sunday, 10 October 2010



LOTTO POWERBALL has jackpotted to $27 million — potentially the biggest individual prize in New Zealand Lotteries' history.

"If this prize is won by one person next week, it'll be the biggest individual prize ever won in New Zealand — as the $36 million Big Wednesday prize won in Masterton last year was won by a syndicate of four," Lotteries chief executive Todd McLeay said.

The previous biggest Lotto Powerball prize of $22.4m was won last October by a Manukau resident.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4216285/Lotto-Powerball-jackpots-to-27m