SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - A woman from Yellowknife may never have to worry about money again.

Joanne Tsetta hit the jackpot last week, picking up a cheque for $20.6 million from the March 20 Lotto 6/49 draw. She split the $41 million pot with a woman in London, Ont., but it's still the single largest winner in Alberta history.

The 40-year-old woman bought her ticket in Edmonton, where she's been living for the past six months. Initially when she checked her numbers, it didn't register. She saw the number, finished her shopping and left without reacting to the huge win.

Yellowknifer couldn't reach Tsetta for a comment but she told reporters during a press conference in St. Albert, Alta., last Thursday that she had a hard time believing she had won so much money.

"I saw this outrageous number and thought at first that I had won $200,000, then maybe $2,000,000," she said in a new release. "I just said okay, then I rolled the ticket up and put it away. I went about my business, bought what I had come to buy and then I left the store. It just didn't sink in."

News reports in Edmonton began calling her a "mystery winner" and eventually she did claim the multi-million dollar prize.

She told the Alberta Lottery Corporation that she planned to buy a new home and put money toward her children's education.

"I'm just going to relax and go with the flow. I just want to be happy, and that's all that matters," she said.

Her aunt, Shirley Tsetta, was in Edmonton to celebrate the win, according to family.

"I haven't heard from her but I'm expecting her call. I guess everyone is," joked her cousin Ndilo Chief Ted Tsetta.