After hitting a $1.6 million jackpot, there really is no place for Sue Nott like her new home.

In August, the Auburn resident won big money playing a five-cent “Wizard of Oz” slot machine at Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln.

Since then Nott has paid $300,000 cash for a new home, honored a promise to buy her friend a new car, set aside $200,000 for her children’s futures and ended a three-year legal battle that had plagued her.

“I believe it was divine intervention,” Nott said of her win.

On that fateful Aug. 4, Nott decided to stop in at the casino on her way to her federal government job down in Sacramento.

That morning Nott said she woke up in her 650-sqaure-foot home and had a “powerful” feeling about the “Wizard of Oz” machine.

That feeling proved correct. She took two $100 bills to a machine. After a few plays she was in shock to see she hit the progressive $1.6 million jackpot.

“Everybody started to run to me and then ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ started playing,” Nott recalled.

Jackie Nott, Nott’s 23-year-old daughter, said she had two missed calls from her mom that day. When she called her back, she couldn’t believe what she heard.

“I thought she was lying,” Jackie Nott said.

A few days later not only was Sue Nott and her family and friends escorted via limousine to a multi-course formal dinner celebration at Thunder Valley Casino, Sue Nott bought a house.

Her husband, Richard, found a home online with a nice view of a creek running behind it.

Sue Nott knocked on the door, the homeowners let her in and then everything “fell into place.”

“I’m in seventh heaven,” Sue Nott said in her new 1,500-square-foot Auburn home.

Jenifer Gee can be reached at jeniferg@goldcountrymedia.com.

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In August, Auburn resident Sue Nott hit a $1.6 million jackpot on a five-cent Wizard of Oz slot machine at Thunder Valley Casino. Nott opted for the cash buyout, which left her with $1.1 million. She’s set aside about $544,500 to pay the 49.5 percent income tax and spent the rest on herself, her friends and her family.

Here is a list, by the numbers, of Nott’s purchases:

$300,000 – A 1,500-square-foot Auburn home

$200,000 – Put into savings for her two children, Jackie, 23, and Wes, 25

$3,000 – custom-made ruby slipper necklace to remember her win

$3,000 – new mattress

$1,700 – Big screen TV

$500 – For a new grey kitten for her daughter that was also a donation to the Animal Rescue Foundation

$45 – For a ring that she had wanted to buy before she hit the jackpot.

Other items:

A Toyota Prius she promised to buy for her friend, Jeanne Woodcock of Lincoln, if she ever won big

Gave donations of about $5,000 or $10,000 to various relatives in need

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