Imagine finding out that you are the R86-million lottery winner...
We cannot even imagine her excitement...
There are those hardcore lottery participants who don't let a week go by without taking their lottery numbers, and then you have those that just try their luck at it. Whichever one you are, let's just say that we have noticed that sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't.
It's actually quite similar to the 'Every Caller Wins' competition that East Coast Radio ran last Friday, in celebration of our 25th birthday. Some people tried thousands of times to get through and we had one caller on Vic Naidoo's show that said she only tried twice and got through...
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Nevertheless, whichever type of person you are, sometimes it pays to keep trying. That was certainly true for this woman who played a quick pick on her ABSA banking app on the day of the jackpot draw.
"National lottery operator Ithuba announced on Tuesday that the PowerBall jackpot winner had come forward after acing the draw that took place on September 17. The winning PowerBall ticket was purchased on the day of the jackpot draw. The winner played using the Absa banking app and spent R75 on the winning ticket using the Quick Pick selection method to select the winning numbers 8, 10, 17, 26, 39 and PowerBall number 14." (MSN)
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Without God, this would not have been possible.
It seems that more players are embracing the ease and convenience that comes with playing the lottery on their banking apps.
This year Absa has produced the second-highest PowerBall jackpot winner in the history of the SA National Lottery from the draw that took place earlier in July, the biggest jackpot winner of 2021 thus far and the biggest online jackpot winner since Ithuba took over as the operator in 2015. This is an indication that more players are embracing our online purchase methods for national lottery games as a convenient and safe method to play.
We are so happy for her and we are sure that winning that amount of money during such trying times is a sure surprise. We hope that she is responsible with her spending and wish her all the best.
Do you play the lottery? If so, how often and have you won anything from the time you started playing it?
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