A Woman Won The $70 Million Lotto Max Jackpot With The First Ticket She Ever Bought

Talk about beginner's luck!
Senior Writer

The Lotto Max winner who's taking home the $70-million prize actually hit the jackpot on her first time ever playing the lottery. Talk about luck!

The day after the draw on October 9 when the lottery game's biggest jackpot was offered once again, Shu Ping Li of Montreal found out she was .

She waited a while for emotions to get under control before she claimed the massive prize.

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$70,000,000 Lotto Max jackpot Shu Ping Li won

She had bought lottery tickets for the first time ever before the draw after she saw that another big prize had been won in Quebec.

The $70 million that was up for grabs also made her want to try her luck and it paid off!

She doesn't know what she's going to do with this massive amount of money and is going to take some time to think about how she'll spend it.

This is the second time this year that Lotto Max's biggest jackpot was won in Quebec.

A family of eight took home the $70 million back in February after a 22-year-old bought the winning ticket.

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    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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