<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>327379</docID> <postdate>2024-08-23 13:23:32</postdate> <headline>$100m Powerball winner almost lost her ticket</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-327326" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240118001890477758-original-resized.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="628" /></p> <caption>The Lott is waiting to hear from the unregistered entrant who bought the winning Powerball ticket. (Toby Zerna/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <div class="wire-column__preview__text" id="preview-body"> <p><strong>The winner of the $100 million Powerball jackpot almost lost the winning ticket that delivered the third-biggest lottery prize in Australian history.</strong></p> <p>News there was a mystery Queensland winner of the massive windfall prompted the Brisbane mother to look for her ticket in her car's glovebox.</p> <p>"It's a funny story. At the start of the year, I had a really strange feeling I was going to win a major lottery prize," she said on Friday.</p> <p>"I told my parents about it, they said, 'don't be crazy', but I just had this strong feeling."</p> <p>The woman, who was not a regular Powerball player, decided to buy a ticket.</p> <p>"I was shopping the other day, and it's coming up to my birthday, so I thought why not and purchased a Powerball ticket," she said.</p> <p>"The funny thing is too, I almost lost it! I had to pull over on the way home from the shops because I thought I had left it there.</p> <p>"After that, I put it in my glovebox, and I completely forgot about it until this morning."</p> <p>She said the win had left her family in "complete shock".</p> <p>"I'm scared to breathe in case this isn't real," she said.</p> <p>Asked how she would spend the $100 million, the woman said she needed time to take in the win before making any firm plans.</p> <p>"We've worked so hard our whole lives for everything we've had, and we really don't live a lavish lifestyle," she said.</p> <p>"We'd like to do some travelling. Maybe a family holiday somewhere. We've always wanted to go see New Zealand and Fiji.</p> <p>"It's so weird. I can't even say it out loud right now!"</p> <p>It's only the sixth time a winner has won a lottery prize of $100 million or more.</p> <p>The odds of getting all seven numbers and the Powerball correct is one in 134,490,400, according to Gambler's Help and The Lott.</p> <p>The winning numbers in draw 1475 on Thursday were 16, 24, 11, 4, 10, 18 and 23 and the Powerball number was six.</p> <p>In addition to the $100 million division one winner, there were 3,389,212 wins across divisions two to nine, who collectively took home $67,789,677.20.</p> <p>There were also 10 division two winners who each scored $188,606.60.</p> </div> </body>