$70 million Lotto Max Winners Kept a Secret for Two Months

Some lottery winners immediately tell their family about their big win. That wasn’t the case for Doug and Enid Hannon from Lakefield in Canada. They won a $70 million Lotto Max jackpot but didn’t tell their family of their win for two months.

Their fantastic win came in the Lotto Max draw held on February 20. It wasn’t until April that they came forward to claim their winnings.

It was Enid who had bought their winning ticket from a local grocery store. One day after the draw, her husband checked their ticket and discovered they were multi-millionaires.

Big Winner

He had no idea that a local ticket had won the $70 million Lotto Max jackpot. When ‘Big Winner’ came up on the screen of his phone, he couldn’t stop shaking. His heart began to pond and he just stared at all the zeros on the screen. He then went to their garage and tried to do some work while he “struggled with disbelief and thought about our next steps.”

It wasn’t until his wife returned home from work that she found out about their windfall. Doug didn’t tell her right away though. He prepared a special dinner for them and after enjoying it asked her to check the lottery results on his computer.

Enid did so but initially thought they’d only won $70,000. A New Zealand couple  thought they’d won $8,333 on the Lotto  but it was actually $8.3 million.

Her husband asked her to recount the zeros and then the real amount was revealed.  It was time to hug and cry before discussing how to use their Lotto Max winnings.

Special family meeting

However, it wasn’t until a week before they claimed their winnings did they hold a “special family meeting.” That’s when their shocked but delighted children found out their parents were multi-millionaires.

Doug wants to use some of their winnings to travel across Canada. His wife however wants the new kitchen and other house improvements that she’s been dreaming of for years along with other house improvements.

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