Calgary friends split $50-million lottery win
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A trio of Calgary friends and former co-workers are each $16.6 million richer after splitting a whopping $50 million Lotto 6-49 jackpot.
A trio of Calgary friends and former co-workers are each $16.6 million richer after splitting a whopping $50 million Lotto 6-49 jackpot.
Carmen Austria, Gary Perkins and Catherine Wall have known each other for two decades.
They started buying tickets together 17 years ago and won big with the Dec. 9, 2023 draw.
The cost: a $10 ticket purchased from the Scenic Acres Husky in Calgary.
"I don’t think anything prepares you for that much emotion," said Wall.
Perkins said he got a phone call and a string of text messages from his friends and he wasn’t initially sure what was going on.
"It just didn’t compute," he said.
