Record ready to be broken in $2 Jackpot Lottery tomorrow morning
The oldest lottery game in NSW could reach a new record if it is not won in the first lottery draw scheduled for tomorrow morning.
If the jackpot is not won at $15,990,000 in $2 Jackpot Lottery draw 9361 at 8.30 am on Friday 2 October, it will stand at a record $16.1 million for the following draw 9362 at 8.45.
The current record for the $2 Jackpot Lottery is $16.025 million. The record was set on 5 September 2008, when a pensioner from the Illawarra region scored the jackpot prize. At the time the winner said her win would be used help her family.
The current jackpot run has been building for more than eight months since the jackpot was last won on 20 January at $7.025 million by a Brisbane cleaner in her fifties, with a winning ticket she purchased at Tweed Heads.
The $2 Jackpot Lottery began life as the Opera House Lottery in 1957.
The origins of the $2 and $5 Jackpot Lotteries go back even further in time, as these games are essentially the same as the first lottery draw conducted on 20 August 1931 by the then NSW State Lottery Office.
The unique attribute of Lucky Lotteries is that the jackpot can only be won by one ticket, so the jackpot winner takes the lot.
The jackpot in the $2 jackpot Lottery is won when the selected jackpot number has already won a cash prize in the same lottery. When the jackpot is won it reverts back to the base amount of $500,000 for the next draw and increases by $110,000 for each successive $2 Jackpot Lottery until won again.
