Bendigo brothers-in-law keep Tattslotto win all in the family Two members of the same Bendigo family have each won Tattslotto. TWO Bendigo brothers-in-law have become the first family members in Tattslotto history to win division one prizes in the same draw. The men, who wished to remain anonymous, collected almost $218,000 each after independently buying tickets from separate Bendigo newsagencies without the other knowing. One of the winners, a man in his 60s, said they had both used the Lotto numbers his late father used to play with. "I hadn't checked my Tattslotto ticket yet, and my sister came around very excited and said she'd won this division one prize," he said. As soon as I looked at her ticket I realised we'd both been playing with the numbers Dad used before he died almost 20 years ago. So I said, hang on, I must have won Tattslotto too. The man said he had no idea his brother-in-law, aged in his 50s, had been using the same numbers until learning of the win over the weekend. "I think Dad would be looking down and smiling on us right now," he said. The man pledged to put the cash to good use by paying off his mortgage and jetting off on holiday with his wife. His brother-in-law will also pay off his mortgage, and set aside some money for his and his wife's retirement. The owner of the Golden Square Newsagency, where the older man bought his winning ticket, Bill Roberts, said he had never seen a result like it. "It's very unusual, and probably highly unlikely," he said. A worker at the Eaglehawk Authorised Newsagency, where the second brother-in-law lodged his entry, Mark McCormick, said the man was "really rapt" when he came in to verify his ticket. Tattslotto spokeswoman Elissa Lewis said she believed it was the first time a family syndicate had won twice in the same division in the same draw. She said 19 people across the country won a share in the first division prize pool - an unusually high number. Seven were in Victoria. "All the winning numbers were below 31, so probably numbers quite a few people would choose - birthdays, house numbers," she said. Both men have verified their tickets and should receive their winnings within the next two weeks, Ms Lewis said. The winning numbers, drawn on Saturday night, were 27, 11, 8, 31, 21 and 6 and the supplementary numbers were 19 and 30.