Christine Bradfield, a mother of two from Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, took home this week the world’s biggest ever jackpot of £1.1 million. The 53-year-old bingo player, who started going to bingo halls when she was 18, was in her local club when she won. “It was just like a football match when somebody scores a goal. The place erupted,” Steve Hanley-Locke, deputy manager of the bingo hall, said.

The first thing the lucky winner did after confirming her win in the function room, was calling her husband Ray to tell him the good news. Mrs. Bradfield, who has a part-time job at a garage, said she will continue working in spite of the huge jackpot and she will come back to the club to play again.

“I work three days a week in a garage and luckily I don't have to be in until Wednesday, but I'll be there then,” she told the press. She also joked that if she had to stay at home, she would be out shopping all the time and added she knew some day all the years of playing bingo would pay off.

Mrs. Bradfield prize is only one of the many prizes that have been granted since the National Bingo Game started. This game links 600 bingo clubs around the United Kingdom in order to increase jackpots.