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The Powerball winner originally thought she had won $ 107,000.
A 40-year-old Sydney woman won the $ 100 million Australian Powerball jackpot prize, making the Australian lottery history the biggest individual prize ever.
A manager of the Australian lottery organization, Lott, called the registered player directly after the draw on Thursday night to announce the news. The winner first revealed that she thought she had won $ 107,000.
The regular player, who wanted to remain anonymous, purchased her marked online registration for 12 games.
"I do not understand what's going on," she told Lott.
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"I had such a tumultuous day, so I do not know where I am and what I am doing.
"I do not understand – is it really real?
"Is this something?
"Oh my God, $ 107,000! It's amazing!
"Wait – are you telling me that I've earned $ 107 million? Oh my God! It's so much money."
When asked how she planned to spend her money randomly, the winner revealed that her family was above all in her mind.
"I'm a health care professional but I'm not going to retire, my work is so pbadionate about it, it will push me to do more work in the health field for important causes for me," she said. declared.
"I will share it with my family.I thought of my family when I bought the ticket.
"I do not know what to do, but of course I'm going to help my family.
"I will give money to my favorite charity, they will have a whole bunch of money.
"This win gives me the chance to go do what I've always wanted to do – we could buy a caravan and travel too."
The numbers drawn in the Thursday night Powerball draw were 20, 18, 33, 22, 11, 26 and 4 and the Powerball was number 9.
Across Australia, there was only one winning entry in the draw – the NSW entry.
The winner recounted how she managed to hold the winning Division One entry.
"It was so random, I just decided to log in yesterday and mark an entry with random numbers," she said.
"I do not know how I'll be able to sleep tonight, but for now I'm going to have a cheap glbad of chardonnay."
The prize of the winner's division one was raised to 107 575 649.08 Australian dollars because of the number of entries bought during the draw on Thursday night.
The winning division 1 entry was the only nationwide registration to match the seven winning numbers and the Powerball to the 1183 draw, rewriting the record books and making the number one. history of the Australian lottery the biggest individual prize ever won.
Thursday's draw also saw a total of 3,856,275 prizes worth more than 68.4 million Australian dollars earned in divisions two to nine. This included 20 Division Two winning entries, each winning a division two prize of A $ 94,792.90.
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