OZ Lotto jackpots to $100m for Melbourne Cup Day. Source: The Courier-Mail
OZ Lotto jackpots to record $100 million on Melbourne Cup day after Division 1 prize money fails to pick up a winner yet again.
Next Tuesday's $100 million jackpot - dubbed the "jackpot that stops a nation'' by organisers because it will fall on Melbourne Cup Day - sets a new record for an advertised first division prize pool.
It is just shy of Australia's largest ever lotto win - when $106,549,984.76 was shared between two punters in June 2009 - however that draw had only been guaranteed at $90 million.
Last night's winning numbers were 26, 21, 31, 4, 8, 5 and 16 (Supplementaries: 32, 41).
More than one third of the nation had a ticket in the draw but all were luckless again.
OZ Lotto has been without a Division 1 winner since one lucky soul claimed a $13 million win on August 28 - nine weeks.
"While no one in Australia matched the seven winning numbers drawn in Oz Lotto to win the $70 million first division prize, more than 1.9 million Australians won prizes across divisions two to seven, sharing in a total prize pool of $39.4 million,'' a lotteries spokeswoman said.
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PICK your four-leaf clovers, hold up a horse shoe and choose your lucky numbers - $70 million is up for grabs tonight.
More than 5.5 million people are expected to buy a ticket for tonight's Oz Lotto jackpot, with more than half of the tickets expected to be bought today.
Sixty per cent of those trying their luck tonight will use randomly generated numbers to choose their seven potential winning numbers.
Players opting for this quick pick option will have a 1 in 3.7 million chance of winning the big cash prize, but Golden Casket public relations manager Elissa Lewis said those choosing their own numbers needed to consider some numbers could have the Midas touch.
"There are seven numbers that have been drawn more than once in a draw like this and they are six, 11, 23, 29, 34, 40, 42,'' she said.
About 7600 tickets expected to be purchased every minute across the nation between 4 and 5pm tonight.
Ms Lewis said Queensland players would have until 6.30pm to buy their tickets and would only need to wait an hour and 10 minutes to find out if they had become overnight millionaires.
"If someone won the entire $70 million it would make a new record with the single largest lotto winner in Australia,'' she said.
This is the eighth consecutive week where nobody has won the Division 1 prize money.
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