From Holiday Rush To An €850,000 Super5 Jackpot Win
Sometimes, destiny works in mysterious ways. For one lucky Super5 player, what started as a rushed ticket purchase just after returning from a holiday, turned to be a defining moment in her life.
The winner, who has always played the same numbers, representing the birth dates of her family, namely her own birthday, that of her husband, children and grandchildren, usually buys her Super5 ticket every Saturday for the Wednesday draw. But this time, she broke her routine.
She had missed out on playing the previous Saturday as she was away and upon her return on Friday, she went straight to the Marsacala National Lottery booth to play her favourite Super5 ticket, not fully aware that the ticket she purchased was for the same day draw, rather than for the mid-week one.
The draw on Friday 22nd August will be remembered forever by the winner. Not particularly interested in the drawn numbers on the day, thinking that her ticket was valid for the subsequent draw, she visited her National Lottery agent a few days later to check her tickets, never suspecting what was about to unfold. To her astonishment, the ticket she handed over was the jackpot winner, worth a staggering €850,000.
“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I’ve been playing these numbers, 5,18,22, 29,31 every week, with the hope that one day I could win theSuper5. You sort of hope every time you’re holding a Super5 ticket, that it could be you this time round. It’s what makes Super5 special. These numbers are very sentimental to me since they are all birth dates of my family members. I’m just happy I didn’t throw the ticket away! Now, I’ll be able to share this prize with my children and grandchildren, making memories we only dreamed of before.”
Her story is a powerful reminder that with Super5 you really can DREAM BIG and that in the next Super5 draw, IT COULD BE YOU. Super5 is drawn live every Wednesday and Friday after the 8 o’clock news on TVM.
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