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An Ingle Farm couple have barely let their phone out of sight all weekend after discovering a last-minute Saturday X Lotto entry had made them more than $3.2 million richer.
The Adelaide residents held one of just two division one winning entries nationally in Saturday X Lotto draw 4701, drawn on Saturday, August 8.
Their division one prize was worth $3,164,474.87, but their winning System 7 entry also scored division two six times, taking their total windfall to an incredible $3,220,510.97.
When an official from The Lott finally called the couple, they admitted they had spent the weekend waiting anxiously for the phone to ring.
“We’re very good today because we’ve been waiting for your call! The phone has been next to me all weekend,” the winning husband laughed.
The entry was an almost spur-of-the-moment purchase, made after the man scored a smaller lottery win the night before.
“It was a very last minute decision. I had a little win on Friday night from a Weekday Windfall ticket, so I decided to put it into a Saturday entry,” he said.
After checking the ticket online, he initially struggled to believe what he was seeing.
“I was on the computer when I checked it and I just went, ‘No, no, this can’t be right’. We just about had a heart attack.”
Despite suddenly becoming multi-millionaires, the couple’s celebrations remained remarkably low-key.
“Then we celebrated. We had our normal silverside for dinner, but we got no sleep whatsoever.”
The couple already know where some of the money will go, with paying off their home at the top of the list.
“It’s amazing! The house is paid off now,” the winning wife said.
“We’d love new cars also. It’s life-changing!”
The winning five-game System 7 entry was purchased through The Lott website.
The winning numbers in Saturday X Lotto draw 4701 were 28, 33, 6, 22, 36 and 26, with supplementary numbers 32 and 12.
There were two division one winning entries across Australia in the draw, with one each in South Australia and New South Wales.
The win takes The Lott’s division one tally to 223 so far in 2026, including 20 wins by SA Lotteries customers.
