‘Whim’ nets man $13 million lotto win

An Auckland man who bought a Lotto ticket hoping to get a newcar ended up scooping a $13 million jackpot. The man said he bought the ticket and decided ‘‘on a whim’’ to making it a Triple Dip, so he could go in the draw to win a Range Rover. ‘‘I’ve been wanting to buy a newcar for a while and so I thought ‘why not, I’ll buy the dip’,’’ he said. The man said he was enjoying a muesli breakfast on Sunday before logging into MyLotto to find that he had won. ‘‘I heard the winning noise play and I thought, ‘oh great, I might have won a bonus ticket or something.’ ‘‘And then a message popped up saying ‘significant winner’. ‘‘I looked, and at first it was just numbers. And then I thought, ‘wow, maybe I’ve won $13,000. And then I saw million!’’