All Lotto tickets were sold online during the level 4 lockdown while Lotto shops and Lotto counters where physically closed during the nationwide measures to counter the Covid-19 pandemic. Interesting facts about Lotto's big winners• 85 per cent of big winners kept working, remaining in the same job as before their win. • 98 per cent of big winners still regularly buy Lotto tickets. • 73 per cent of big winners surveyed won with a Lucky Dip ticket. • 19 per cent only told their other half, 31 per cent told their immediate family, 8 per cent told everybody and 5 per cent kept it to themselves.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 19, 2020 05:15 UTC