{"id":117776,"date":"2025-09-04T08:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117776\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:31:12","slug":"lotto-app-not-working-lotterywest-struck-with-technical-issues-ahead-of-80m-powerball-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117776\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto app not working: Lotterywest struck with technical issues ahead of $80m Powerball draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Lotterywest has resolved the technical issues that struck the app and website just hours before the mammoth $80m Powerball draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Lotto app and Lotterywest website experienced an outage on Wednesday afternoon which prohibited West Aussie players from logging in and buying tickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">When trying to log in or purchase a ticket, users were unable to get through to the relevant website pages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWe\u2019re currently experiencing issues with our services and are working to resolve them as soon as possible,\u201d a pop up message on the website read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">In terms of timeline, it was unclear what the issue was and when it was going to be fixed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8b60952426553cea3880c74a27fb94ba24812486-161x229-x0y200w828h1178.jpg\" alt=\"The Lotto app wasn\u2019t working on Wednesday afternoon. \" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconThe Lotto app wasn\u2019t working on Wednesday afternoon.  Credit: Lotterywest<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWe expect to be back as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience,\u201d the message continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Lotterywest website encouraged users to purchase tickets for the imminent Powerball draw before 6pm, but unfortunately, that wasn\u2019t possible for players wanting to buy tickets on the app or via the website on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2d8bd21d3939bae8715936c26f6302a320a016c9.jpg\" alt=\"The Lotterywest website wasn\u2019t working on Wednesday afternoon. \" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconThe Lotterywest website wasn\u2019t working on Wednesday afternoon.  Credit: Lotterywest<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The outage lasted for two hours and was resolved around 3pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cAn outage, due to a technical issue, was experienced on Thursday afternoon for a two-hour period. During this time, players were able to purchase tickets in-store,\u201d a Lotterywest spokesperson told PerthNow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cLotterywest\u2019s Play Online website and App have been restored as a top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The timing of the outage couldn\u2019t have been be worse \u2014 just hours ahead of one of the most anticipated Powerball draws of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The $80 million figure marks the second highest Powerball prize on offer in 2025, just shy of the $100 million value set in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The eye-watering prize is rare; the last time an $80 million Powerball jackpot was up for grabs was in May 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lotterywest has resolved the technical issues that struck the app and website just hours before the mammoth $80m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,1625,12067],"class_list":{"0":"post-117776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-lotto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}