Manitoban trio wins big on EXTRA after 45 years of friendship!

Three Manitoba friends are celebrating together after a group win on EXTRA and LOTTO MAX! 

Cynthia Bauer, Diana Cowell, and Alison Corley won $100,002 on the May 21 draw to split amongst themselves. 

The Lac Du Bonnet trio has been friends for 45 years and they have played LOTTO MAX together for the last several years as a way to regularly get together. 

“It’s unbelievable,” Bauer said of the win. “It’s just fantastic. We’ve been friends for so long and we wouldn’t want to win this with anyone else!” 

Bauer was the first to discover the group’s win. 

“I scanned the ticket on my Lotto Spot app again and again,” she chuckled. “I was in total shock!” 

“I called my girlfriends and told them we had won $100,000 and they were stunned!” 

Bauer said now, they’re brewing up plans for how to spend their new winnings. 

“The three of us don’t have definite plans yet but we’re certainly hoping to travel together and maybe do some home renos.” 

Bauer purchased the group’s winning ticket at Drifter’s Inn Restaurant and Lounge located at the junction of highways MB-11 and MB-313 in Lac Du Bonnet. They won their prize by matching the last six digits of the EXTRA drawn on May 21: 4 9 9 9 1 0 1.

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