Scratch and win

Tewantin News employees Davina Eaton and Amelia Drew celebrate the sale of a $100,000 winning ticket.

Geoff Potterna

Next time you feel an impulse coming on – head for a Noosa newsagent and buy a scratch-it.

There are $1,100,000 good reasons why.

It really pays off, with a second customer in two weeks hitting a rich vein of luck.

This time it was an impulse buyer from out west who bought a scratch-it from Tewantin News in Poinciana Avenue and eventually became $100,000 better off.

This followed on from last week’s incredible stroke of luck when a young mum bought one ticket for her relative and one for herself at Noosa Civic News.

When the surface was scratched away it revealed a $1 million Set For Life windfall to be paid in $250,000 instalments over four glorious years.

Tewantin newsagent Richard Rudlege said the Darling Downs retiree was not exactly in a rush to see if he had won a prize. He waited until he drove home before he did the deed of scratching away.

And first off he’d thought he’d won $1000.

“There was a little bit of jumping and screaming when we realised what we’d won,” the lucky man said.

And while he plans to share the win with his family, newsagent Richard playfully said he’d smacked the fingers of the staff member for letting that one get away from the Coast.

The reaction of the $1 million mum was:

“As I was scratching the ticket, I was thinking how good it would be to win, because the extra money would make things easier right now.”

Richard said he seriously loved seeing people’s eyes light up when they came into some serious money – like the syndicate that won $240,000 in Oz Lotto from a ticket sold at Tewantin.

The Coast has been a hotbed of lucky winners of late.

In February a grandmother at Glasshouse Mountains won $2 million on Oz 7 Lotto, while a semi-retired man from Nambour won $1 million in Oz Lotto.