A Hamilton family who became Lotto multimillionaires on Saturday jumped straight back into "normal life" after finding out they'd won by mowing the lawns.
"The overwhelming feeling is disbelief. I kept saying I don't think I'll believe it until I see it in our bank," said the winner, who wishes to remain anonymous.
"We bought the ticket online on Saturday afternoon and were actually joking with friends over dinner that we were going to win Lotto that night."
They tried to check their ticket before going to bed but the website was overloaded.
"We'd watched the news that night about the likelihood of winning and I said 'well, we've got more chance of getting struck by lightning twice than of winning Powerball anyway'.
"Then we thought if we go to bed without checking our ticket, at least we've got one more night of imagining that it might be us that won," laughed the winner's husband.
It wasn't until they logged into their MyLotto account early on Sunday morning that they started to suspect they might actually have won.
"We logged into MyLotto and a screen flashed up saying 'Congratulations, you have won $13.3 million'. But we just couldn't believe it. We were thinking maybe it was a promotion or something.
"So we phoned my sister and she said 'you better have a good reason for waking me up this early', which I think we did."
She confirmed she didn't have a winning message on her account, which is when it began to click into place for the winners.
"Yes - we really have just won a life-changing amount of money."
The winners had bacon, eggs and champagne for breakfast to celebrate.
"After breakfast we just got straight back into normal life - mowing the lawns and tidying the house. We didn't feel like millionaires."
The win still feels "ridiculous", but they are slowly coming around to the realisation that this is real.
"There are so many figures in our bank account now. I keep logging online to look at it - we keep pinching ourselves.
"Things that you never thought would be possible, we can now actually do. I keep waking up in the night and just giggling to myself thinking about it."
The winners said the $13.3m was enough to set them up for life, with plenty to share.
Remaining winners claim prize
Three days after the draw that had Kiwis queuing out of supermarket doors, the full $40 million has been snapped up.
The two remaining winners of Saturday's biggest Lotto prize have come forward.
Three tickets won a share of $40 million. The first winner, who bought a ticket at Pak'nSave Dunedin, claimed his $13.3 million in record time on the night of the draw.
The second and third ticket-holders claimed theirs this morning.
The tickets were bought in Hamilton and at the Oparau Roadhouse near Kawhia.
Lotto spokeswoman Emilia Mazur said it wasn't unusual for winners to wait a while before claiming their prize.
"Some like to claim their prize straight away - like the Dunedin winners who checked their ticket straight after the draw. Others like to wait a few days, or weeks, to think about what they want to do with their winnings and get a few things sorted out before they claim."
Any more than a month was considered "quite long", and Lotto would generally start thinking of other ways of contacting the winner.
"For large prizes such as for Saturday's draw, we would usually expect the winners to claim their prize relatively promptly. "
