Four Koostatak co-workers share $100,000 EXTRA prize

A group of co-workers from Koostatak, Manitoba is celebrating after taking home $100,003 on the February 28 LOTTO 6/49 and EXTRA draw.

Aaron Mason and his co-workers Cynthia Anderson, Douglas Murdock and John Garson said they have been buying lottery tickets together each week for as long as they can remember.

The winners said it’s a routine that brings them time together and now has brought each of them a whole lot more!

“I had no idea we had won until the cashier checked the ticket,” said Mason while claiming the group’s prize. “I just fell kind of quiet for a second then immediately called [the other group members].”

“It was such a surprise,” he added.

Each winner will take home a $25,000.75 share of the total LOTTO 6/49 and EXTRA prize.

Mason said his co-workers are still coming up with ideas on how to spend their windfall, but he has already decided on a game plan: “I’m paying off my truck with my share of the prize!”

The group purchased its winning ticket at Fisher River Cree Nation Gas and Convenience Store located in Koostatak. They won their prize by matching two out of six of the numbers drawn in the LOTTO 6/49 Classic Draw, as well as the last six numbers of the EXTRA draw on February 28—3 8 2 6 9 0 4

Download the full release and winner's photo below.