WA development employee splits $650k Lotto prize with greatest mate, celebrates by taking wives for Italian feast

A WA development employee who gained an eye-watering close to $650k Lotto prize says he plans on splitting it together with his greatest mate and treating their wives to an Italian dinner feast.

The winner, who often purchases his weekly ticket from a retailer in Mundaring, says a particular request by his spouse to go to the butcher’s meant he switched up his traditional routine and purchased his ticket elsewhere.

“My wife said she wanted a ribeye steak for dinner to celebrate our anniversary, so when I headed to my favourite butcher, I stopped into Nextra Boutiques in Forrestfield to pick up my Lotto ticket,” he started.

“My best friend and I each buy a Slikpik 18 and send photos of our tickets to each other every week, so we’ll be splitting the prize down the middle.”

The greatest mates have shared tickets for seven years and admitted they have been each “gobsmacked” once they found the win.

“My friend called me, and he never calls me,” the opposite winner laughed.

“So I said, ‘I hope you’re calling to tell me I can retire.”

The life-changing prize will assist each males tick off long-held targets, with each males planning to take pleasure in abroad holidays.

One of the winners can also be wanting ahead to retiring and happening extra cruises, whereas the opposite plans to spend his windfall on paying off his mortgage and serving to his kids purchase a house of their very own.

But for now, the pair are preserving their celebrations easy.

“For now, we’ll take our wives out for an Italian dinner to celebrate,” they mentioned.

The mates have been amongst three WA gamers to win a Division One prize in final Saturday’s draw, with a self-employed Beechboro man in his 60s additionally profitable large.

West Aussies hopeful of their very own Lotto windfall can attempt their luck in subsequent weekend’s Saturday Lotto Superdraw, with an opportunity to share in a $20 million prize.