A Kawerau Lotto winner plans to pay off the mortgage and take the family away on holiday to "somewhere a bit fancy".
The eastern Bay of Plenty man, who wants to remain anonymous, won $500,000 with a ticket he bought online in the Lotto First Division draw on Saturday. It was the first time he had bought a ticket online at MyLotto.co.nz.
"I remembered I needed to pick up a Lotto ticket late on Saturday and just couldn't bear the thought of bundling the kids into the car and heading into town," he told a Lotto representative. "So I decided to try my luck on MyLotto instead."
After watching the rugby league test, he jumped online to check his ticket.
"I watched the numbers get circled on my ticket one by one and thought, 'that's a lot of circles'."