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A Lotto ticket worth more than $6 million sat in an Auckland man's wallet for nearly two weeks before he checked it.
"I knew that there was a big prize sold at the Manukau Pak 'N Save where I had bought my ticket, and lots of people were talking about it at work, but I was too superstitious to check my ticket until now," the man, who wished to remain anonymous, said.
"So I could not quite believe it when the Lotto operator checked my ticket, then looked at me strangely and said `do you know how much you have won?'," he said.
"I was so emotional that I could hardly read the numbers on the piece of paper she gave me, and could not wait to tell my family the good news."
The ticket was the final one to claim a share of New Zealand's biggest ever Lotto draw.
The $30m Powerball jackpot was split between five second division winners on Saturday, October 18, after no one won the first division.
However, up until today, only four of the five prizes had been claimed.
- NZPA
