Toto ticket gift from cleaner leads to
$2.8m win
for coffeeshop worker
What a lucky gift!
A COFFEESHOP aunty working in Yio Chu Kang is Monday's winner of
the top Toto prize of $2,866,395.
Her identity came to light when a customer at the coffeeshop heard
the winner shouting for joy when she learnt about her big win on
Monday night.
But the lucky woman did not buy her winning Toto ticket.
A fellow worker, a cleaner, had bought several Toto and 4-D tickets
and had won a small fortune from one of the 4-D tickets on Sunday,
reported Shin Min Daily.
She was so pleased that she gave the coffeeshop aunty one of her
Toto tickets on Sunday.
The Toto ticket had been purchased for $2 with four sets of
predictions. One group of numbers matched the six winning numbers
and took the top prize.
The coffeeshop aunty, in her 50s, had never expected her luck to be
so good. She was so excited by her windfall that she could not fall
asleep the whole of Monday night, said Shin Min.
The next day, she went personally to the Singapore Pools office at
Paradiz Centre, Selegie Road, to collect her prize money.
To show her gratitude, the coffeeshop aunty gave $5,000 in a red
packet to the cleaner who had given her the winning Toto
ticket.
A stall owner and regular customers at the coffeeshop confirmed
that she was indeed the top prize winner.
Singapore Pools traditionally does not reveal any information to
protect the privacy of customers.
Mr Huang, a regular customer of the coffeeshop, told Shin Min that
he witnessed the winner's moment of joy and even saw her winning
ticket with his own eyes.
He said: 'The coffeeshop aunty gripped the Toto ticket tightly. Her
hands were trembling with excitment.
She shouted and jumped for joy, and told everyone present her good
news. Her happiness infected us as well.'
Mr Huang said most people would not dare to announce that they had
won a top prize, but the coffeeshop aunty was unable to curb her
joy.
'Now that everyone in the coffeeshop knows she won the Toto prize,
news has spread to the nearby residents too.'
After the coffeeshop aunty collected her prize money, she is said
to have calmed down.
Hearing that that she has become the talk of the neighbourhood, she
decided not to return to work at the coffeeshop.
The winning Toto numbers were 1, 7, 18, 28, 29, 40, and the extra
number was 8.
FIRST TIME
This is the first time the Toto outlet, located within the Shop N
Save at Kovan Centre in Yio Chu Kang, has sold tickets yielding
more than a million dollars in prize money.
The Toto outlet has been in business for about two years, but this
is the first time it has sold a winning ticket.
The coffeeshop aunty is the only winner of the $2,866,395 top
prize.
The second prize was shared among seven winners and each person
gets $82,648.
Each of the 414 winners of the third prize will get $1,398.
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Source: NP
