Australian news : Oz Lotto winner claims entire $70 million prize, setting record

The victors of OzLotto's $70 million big stake are a gathering of lady friends who utilized extra transform from a lunch on lottery tickets. 

The unidentified gathering - whose individuals were not willing to say what number of individuals were in the syndicate - approached on Wednesday evening to guarantee their multi-million dollar prize. 

The unregistered ticket was sold on the Gold Coast, at Golden News and Casket Kiosk in Runaway Bay, and was a 12-amusement QuickPick.The champs will now go down in the history books as scoring the biggest Australian lotto prize on a solitary ticket, beating the $58.7 million won by a syndicate from Melbourne in 2008. 

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"When I understood we'd won I quite recently sat there shaking like a leaf!" the leader of the syndicate said, in an announcement discharged by OzLotto on Wednesday evening. 

"We routinely get together for lunch and after we pay the bill, there's dependably two or three dollars left over. 

"I advised everybody on the last event to toss in some spare change and I'll purchase a lotto ticket in a major draw before Christmas." 

Brilliant News and Casket Kiosk proprietor Pam Goldsmith was enchanted her store had sold the triumphant ticket. 

"I continued saying to clients this week, 'Wouldn't it be decent in the event that we sold the triumphant ticket', never supposing we would," she said. 

An OzLotto representative said there were reports of individuals lining outside newsagents when they opened around 6am. 

"The chances are unfathomable. We would have seen around 33% of the grown-up populace purchase a passage," she said.' 

The triumphant numbers were 26, 24, 20, 17, 34, 39 and 36, with the supplementary numbers 22 and 23