A Deception Bay mum and shopper at newsXpress Deception Bay will pay off the mortgage and take her husband on a dream overseas holiday after scratching the $250,000 top prize on a $5 Crosswords ‘Penguin’ Instant Scratch-Its ticket.
The lucky mum explained that she didn’t realise she had won the top prize until her daughter checked the ticket. “I scratched the game panel and saw that I’d revealed ten complete words, but it didn’t click that I had won a major prize,” she said.
“I handed the ticket to my daughter, who was sitting next to me on the couch, and asked her to check to see if I’d won anything. Her face lit up and she said – Mum, you’ve won 250 thousand dollars!
“Well I couldn’t contain my excitement and started jumping up and down and running around the house like a mad woman!
When asked what she plans to do with her windfall the mum said she would pay off the house and take her husband on a dream overseas holiday.
The woman purchased her winning Instant Scratch-Its ticket from newsXpress Deception Bay.
