<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>337552</docID> <postdate>2025-02-04 08:58:53</postdate> <headline>Record win on offer with Oz Lotto $100m jackpot</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-337553" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250203153278991505-original-resized.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>There's a $100 million Oz Lotto jackpot up for grabs on Tuesday. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">By <strong>Farid Farid</strong></span></p> <p><strong>One very lucky punter could take home a record-breaking Lotto haul with $100 million up for grabs in the largest prize pool in more than a decade.</strong></p> <p>Up to a third of Australian adults are expected to buy a ticket for the bumper Oz Lotto draw before sales close ahead of the draw late on Tuesday.</p> <p>The jackpot is the largest for the lottery since 2012, when the prize was split between four division one-winning entries.</p> <p>However, if the full prize goes to a single person - the odds of which are more than a million to one - they would become Oz Lotto's richest winner.</p> <p>Khat McIntyre, from lottery provider The Lott, said whoever won the prize would receive a call they would remember for the rest of their lives.</p> <p>"Reactions we often hear when breaking the life-changing news include screams of excitement, cries of joy or bursts of laughter," she said.</p> <p>Sixteen lotto winners scooped up more than $323 million in the last financial year.</p> <p>An Adelaide man became Australia's largest-ever individual lottery winner in May, when he took sole claim to a $150 million Powerball prize.</p> <p>It was the third-largest lottery prize in Australian history, behind a $200 million Powerball win shared between two people in February and a $160 million jackpot in 2022 split between three ticket holders.</p> <p>Gambler's Help puts the chance of taking the first-division Oz Lotto prize, by getting all seven numbers correct, at less than one in 62 million.</p> <p>That compares to an estimated one in 1.2 million chance of getting hit by lightning in any given year, according to US researchers.</p> </body>