The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, saw the clairvoyant in Wellington two weeks ago and was told that neither she nor her mother would ever win big.
“I was at home scratching a $3 Cloud Nine crossword ticket and thought I had won $1,000 and had completed nine words,” says the winner.
“I realised I had missed a couple of letters and then revealed a tenth word and a $40,000 prize,” she adds.
“I laughed when I thought about what the clairvoyant had said and when I rang my mum to tell her what I’d won, we were in fits of laughter,” says the winner.
The clairvoyant was wrong on two counts as the winner reveals that she and her mum shared a Lotto First Division prize of $683,000 in 1989.
The winner says the Lotto win was fantastic as at the time she was a solo mum and her mum was a widow.
“The Lotto win changed our lives and really helped us out at the right time,” says the winner.
The winner says she plans to put the $40,000 in the bank for her retirement. She has no plans to go spend any money on clairvoyants in the future.
The winner bought her ticket from St John’s Food Market in Whanganui. There are six top prizes of $40,000 remaining on this game.
