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A WICKLOW COUPLE who threw a €250,000 winning Lotto ticket into the bin have now presented the ‘tea-stained’ ticket at the National Lottery HQ.
They recovered the ticket a number of days after the draw only after they had heard that one of the top prizes was won locally.
The winning ticket was sold at Roundwood Centra for the Lotto Plus 2 draw on Saturday 7 May.
Speaking today as they sipped champagne in the National Lottery’s winners room , they said that they were so focused on checking the main jackpot that they didn’t pay proper attention.
“I suppose we were so focused on the larger Lotto jackpot that we didn’t check our tickets properly,” one of the anonymous winners told the National Lottery.
It was the following Monday when I heard that a €250,000 winning ticket was sold in the town. I remember saying that I had hoped that it would be a local winner – little did I know it was us.
They said that they had a strange feeling that their ticket was worth another look so they fished it out of the bin to check the numbers for the other draws.
“We knew that we had a couple of numbers in one of the draws so there was a niggling doubt about the ticket,” they said.
I got a print out of the results from the newsagent and when I got home, I emptied the bin in the kitchen and found the ticket under all the rubbish from the past two days. We could not believe our luck when the numbers matched up.
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Not too often you stick something into a bin and it comes out smelling of roses.
Lucky for them..I tend to rip them up in Anger……
So wait this is the third story I’ve heard in the last week about thrown away lotto tickets coming good by anonymous people. Hmmm……
Enough with the thinking there Deborah, just buy a €10 quickpick and you’ll be grand
Don’t forget to stick it in the bin too to ensure a win!
I always use the machine. The clicking noise … The silence … The trying again … The clicking … The trying the other ticket … The clicking … The beep … The pause … Not a winner. Sigh. Back to the first ticket.
Clever marketing perhaps !!!
So they paid for a lotto plus ticket, checked the main draw, didn’t win so threw it in the bin and not bother looking at lotto plus draws, a hear now are they having a laugh, i no if i paid for a lotto plus ticket I’d be inclined to check the numbers.
Sifting through my bin when I go home…You never know…
Sitting in your bin locked on wine
Seems irresponsible to me. It’s so easy to check tickets with apps & scanners these days, dumping a 6 figure prize is just stupidity in the extreme
looking for their 15 minutes of fame as well.
Their fifteen minutes of anonymous fame.
You’d be surprised. Look at some commenters who fish for likes and are likely called “The Fish”.
No, they’re looking for their quarter of a million euro.
Bin lotto and mushrooms be good right now I’ll settle for binshrooms
Right I’m going to do the lotto. Stick it in the bin, cover it in non recyclables. Wait till full and fish it out. Seems to be lucky these days
Image from Shutterstock/PeJo? You could of easily taken a picture yourself of an Irish Lotto Ticket.
The lotto app is great, you can scan your ticket and find out you’re still a peasant alot quicker
Yay for 250k, but would still have to go to work in the morning.
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