Riches await pair from Tinui

LUCKY PAIR: A Tinui couple will be spinning the Lotto winning wheel on July 5 with the potential to win $1million. PHOTO/FILE

A Tinui couple is guaranteed a financial windfall early next month - it just remains to be seen whether it will be $1million, $100,000 or somewhere in between.

The husband and wife came up trumps two weeks ago when, from the comfort of their own lounge, they landed a chance to spin Lotto's lucky wheel.

So now - on July 5 - they will front the nation on television and learn just how lucky they really are.

They are farmers and the wife said landing the chance to win by spinning the wheel was all down to her husband.

"He has been buying tickets for years.

"This time he just happened to be standing in the right place at the right time."

That place was in the Lotto counter queue at Carterton New World where he purchased a $12 lucky dip Powerball ticket.

When Carterton flashed onscreen as the town where that week's spin-the-wheel winning ticket had been purchased the husband turned to his wife and said, "I bought our ticket in Carterton.

"I had better check it."

The upshot is that the couple will be whisked off to Auckland for an all-expenses-paid two or three days courtesy of the Lotteries Commission and a brief - possibly nervous - television appearance.

They are not relishing being on TV.

However, the fact they will be in a professional studio without a live audience has helped them to come to terms with the idea.

As buyer of the ticket the man of the house will do the actual spin and the couple will be grateful for whatever comes up.

They have no fixed plans on how the money will be spent but suspect family - including grandchildren - will be catered for from the proceeds of their good fortune.