'Such a shock': Northland Lotto friends win $1m from bonus ticket

Two friends from Northland who have played Lotto together for 16 years say it was "such a shock" to win $1 million on a bonus ticket. The winning $1 million Lotto first division ticket was sold at Woolworths Kerikeri for the draw on Wednesday, October 14. The pair, who wanted to remain anonymous, scored their prize on a bonus ticket they’d won in the draw on October 10. The ticket spent days pinned to a noticeboard before one of the women took it home to check. She scanned it using the ticket checker on the MyLotto app, and a 'major prize' message appeared. "That's when I thought 'far out – we could have won something big here'. "My heart was pumping and all I could think was that I needed to call my friend."