An Elanora woman has admitted she’s been too busy working long hours to check her Saturday Gold Lotto entry and discover she had become a newly-minted millionaire almost four weeks ago. 

The woman’s entry was one of four division one winning entries across Australia in Saturday Gold Lotto draw 3831 on 7 April 2018.  Each entry won the division one prize of $1,030,924.39. 

However as her entry was not registered to a Winners Circle card, Golden Casket officials had no way of contacting the winner to break the life-changing news. 

Late yesterday, the Gold Coast resident discovered she was the region’s mystery millionaire. 

“Oh my god! Oh shivers!  I don’t know what to say,” the woman exclaimed when a Golden Casket official confirmed her win. 

“I had no idea!  I’ve been so busy. I kept saying I’d go and check. I’ve been working from 6am to 7pm every day and I didn’t have time to do anything. 

“Today I just came to pick up another ticket and I thought I’d check this one!” 

While coming to terms with the shock of being a newly-minted millionaire, the overwhelmed woman described her Gold Lotto windfall was life changing.    

“I’ve been working hard and planning on going on an overseas holiday in a few years’ time.  I want to go see some family in Europe.  I haven’t seen them in a very long time.  Now there could be a family reunion sooner rather than later,” she said. 

“I might even think about an early retirement!” 

The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, purchased her winning 24-game QuickPick entry at The Pines News & Gifts, Shop 215, The Pines Shopping Centre, 13-31 Guineas Creek Road, Elanora. 

The Pines News & Gifts owner Vivian Milligan said the outlet was ecstatic the winner had finally been united with her prize. 

“Being able to deliver that winning news was thrilling for our staff member.  I think it’s made her life.  It’s just the most wonderful thing to tell someone they’ve won,” she said. 

“We’ve definitely had a lot of people checking their tickets, hoping it was them.  We’ve also had a lot of people telling us they rang family members who visited them over Easter in case they bought the winning ticket. 

“The win has been a nice buzz for the community. We’re in a local shopping centre and we had always hoped it was a local resident who had won – and it was!  

“We wish our winner all the very best with their prize!” 

The six winning numbers in Saturday Gold Lotto draw 3831 on Saturday 7 April 2018 were 7, 17, 8, 35, 6 and 23, while the supplementary numbers were 29 and 30. 

Across Australia, there were four division one winning entries in draw Saturday Gold Lotto draw 3831 – one each from Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.  

The Lott’s division one winning tally has now reached 353 so far this financial year, including 86 won by Golden Casket customers.