Lotto mania has reached fever pitch with celebrity punters dreaming about islands in the sun, cosmetic surgery and ... kidnapping.
Tonight's $90 million Oz Lotto jackpot is the biggest in Australia's history with fortune hunters, including local celebrities, queuing today to secure their chances in the draw.
Fashion kingpin Alex Perry, who has his own ticket as well as a syndicate entry, said he would not be a scrooge and keep the cash prize to himself.
"There's something 'karmically' bad if you keep it to yourself — if you have that fortune you need to spread the love a little bit," Perry told ninemsn.
"Even $10 million would sort out whatever issues you've got: buy a car, get a bit of surgery. I mean, how much do you need?"
Big Brother grandmother Terri Munro, who pocketed $250,000 after winning the 2008 season, said she entered a syndicate with her Coles workmates after a recent spate of luck.
"I went to the club on the weekend and won three raffles and I won two prizes at a work raffle — everyone was spewin' but I reckon I'm lucky," Munro said.
The 52-year-old grandmother said she would stay quiet if she won the prize because of "what happened to Graeme Thorne", the five-year-old boy who was abducted in Bondi after his parents won a government lottery in 1960.
"But I would pay off my children's' homes, keep $10 million and put the rest in the bank and live off the interest," she said.
Bollywood babe Tania Zaetta said she would pay off her mortgages before buying an island in the Pacific to "compete with Richard Branson".
"I'd fly everybody I know there for a couple of weeks of R&R and fun, and I'd give a huge percentage of it away to my charity Peace for The Children."
"Then I'd go into hiding."
But one person who will not be buying a ticket is NSW Premier Nathan Rees.
"I'm not going to reduce the chances of other people," Mr Rees told Fairfax Radio.
"There are many more worthy beneficiaries than myself."
Still, he will not miss out: the draw will pump $26 million back into the state government's coffers.
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