Canada's new Lotto 6/49 winner bought a ticket online and scored $46 million!
He didn't even pick the numbers that got him the multimillion-dollar jackpot.
It was announced that Claude Boucher, a resident of Quebec's Bois-Francs region, won the Gold Ball jackpot in the Lotto 6/49 draw on August 27.
He purchased the winning ticket online through the Loto-Québec gaming site.
Boucher has been playing the same Lotto 6/49 numbers for years, but it wasn't those digits that made him a millionaire.
It was the Gold Ball draw that finally got him a big win.
With the Gold Ball jackpot, you don't select your numbers. Each Lotto 6/49 ticket comes with a unique 10-digit number for the Gold Ball draw.
The winning number that scored Boucher the $46 million Gold Ball jackpot was 77214145-02.
A day after the Wednesday draw, he went through his emails, and there was one that said he was a Lotto 6/49 winner.
"I was scrolling quickly and I thought, '$46,000 isn't too bad! But what are all those zeros? Oh, it's $46,000,000,'" he said.
Boucher double-checked his online gaming account and the results of the draw on the Loto-Québec site to make sure he really won $46 million.
He waited a few hours before telling his wife about the huge jackpot.
Boucher told Loto-Québec that it was an emotional moment they won't forget.
Lotto 6/49 winner Claude Boucher.Loto-Québec
Now that he's $46 million richer, Boucher is thinking about retiring earlier than he planned on, even though he doesn't want to leave his bosses scrambling to replace him.
He is a long-time employee of Cégep de Victoriaville, a post-secondary institution in the town of Victoriaville, which is east of Montreal.
Boucher wants to take a trip to Switzerland because that's where he and his wife lived in the 1980s.
He also plans to spoil his loved ones now that he's a millionaire.
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