Kitchener resident celebrates $100K lottery win

Surbhi Kumar of Kitchener with her $100,000 winnings in this undated image. (Courtesy: OLG).

A Kitchener woman is $100,000 richer after she matched the last six out of seven Encore numbers exactly in the April 8, 2025 LOTTO MAX draw.

Surbhi Kumar from Kitchener bought the winning ticket at the Real Canadian Superstore on Highland Road West in Kitchener.

Kumar went to pick up her winnings at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto. There she shared that her and her daughter were grocery shopping and checking her tickets, as they do every Sunday, when they found out the good news.

“When I discovered I’d won, my daughter started doing a happy dance in the store. We were so excited,” Kumar said.

Kumar said the win took a few days for her to process.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling. I called my brother in Dubai and told him the good news. At first, he just laughed and said, ‘Very funny.’ He thought I was joking with him,” Kumar said. “I said, ‘You won’t be laughing when you see my name on the news!’”

Kumar plans to use her winnings to pay off debt and take her family on a vacation to a destination in Europe.