Winning Lotto numbers came to pensioner in a dream

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An Auckland multimillionaire pensioner saw his winning Lotto numbers in a dream.

The Auckland man, believed to be in his 60s, won $6,142,857 in Saturday night's Lotto Powerball draw after buying his ticket from St Lukes Lotto.

The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a regular Lotto player who picks his own numbers, and changes them from time to time.

A family spokesperson said the winner changed his Lotto ticket numbers after seeing the sequence in a dream.

"About five or six weeks ago, he dreamed of a set of Lotto numbers, so he changed his ticket to these new numbers."

"He [the winner] called me up on Sunday saying he thought he'd won something, but he'd not heard all of the numbers. I looked them up on the internet for him and read them out while he checked them off, and he just kept saying 'yes, yes, yes' and we realised he'd got them all!"

"It's pretty overwhelming winning such a large sum of money, right now he's just going to put it in the bank while he decides what he will be doing with it," said the spokesperson.

The winner is a Lotto regular aged, who visited St Lukes shopping mall daily.

He returned to the Lotto shop on Monday to check the winning numbers with his son, daughter in law and another female relative for support.

The prize is made up of $142,857 from Lotto First Division and $6 million from Powerball First Division.

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