A RETIRED couple who won the lottery are set to invest their winnings in very different ways.

       Patricia Willert and John Lantz of St. Mary’s, Ontario, Canada won Instant Crossword’s top prize of $50,000 (￡39,822) this week as their regular day turned extraordinary.

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       Retired couple Patricia Willert and John Lantz won ￡50,000 on the lottery but are set to spend it very differently Credit: OLG

       The retirees have been playing the lottery together for over 20 years but it is only now that they have finally struck gold.

       Willert, 72, and Lantz, 79 were just sat at home when they checked their tickets on the OLG app.

       Usually, they'd play Lottario, Lotto 6/49 and Lotto Max, but this time they'd gone for Instant tickets.

       After purchasing them at Stratford Variety on Downie Street in Stratford, Ontario, they would never guess what would happen next.

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       “I’m usually in charge of scanning the tickets while Pat looks over my shoulder,” Lantz told Daily Hive while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to pick up their lottery winnings.

       “When we discovered we won big, we couldn’t believe it and began to scream,” added Willert.

       “All I was doing was absorbing Pat’s excitement!” said Lantz.

       However, the couple have revealed that they have very different plans for how they'll spend their half of the jackpot.

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       Willert said: “I plan to use this as my ‘mad’ money."

       But her husband is heading down the more responsible route with his.

       “I’m going to put my portion in the bank,” said Lantz. “I feel very, very, very good!”

       A woman from Berkshire also won a similar amount when she scooped ￡30,000 after her daughter told her to enter the lotto.

       After winning ￡10 herself, Sally's daughter encouraged her Mum to try her luck - but she ended up scooping ￡30k.

       On a slightly larger scale, a man from Nottingham won ￡500k on the National Lottery after buying the scratchcard from a shop he worked art.

       He claimed that buying two tickets together helped to double his chances of winning each time - and his method eventually paid off.