{"id":763855,"date":"2026-06-27T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763855\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:27:09","slug":"saturday-lotto-draw-4689-one-west-aussie-scores-life-changing-division-one-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763855\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Lotto draw #4689: One West Aussie scores life-changing division one prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">One West Australian has become an instant millionaire after taking out a division one prize in Saturday night\u2019s <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/lifestyle\/lotto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lotto<\/a> draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">There were five division one winners across the country, with each taking home a life-changing $1,276,481.57. Only one of those winning tickets was sold in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The winning numbers were 36, 17, 15, 37, 28 and 24, with supplementary numbers 12 and 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Ten West Australians also celebrated division two wins, pocketing $11,758.35 each, while another 125 Sandgropers claimed $1033 apiece in division three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The win comes just two days after a single Australian scooped the entire $40 million Powerball jackpot on Thursday night, ending a run of consecutive jackpot draws that had seen the prize pool climb week after week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">While the latest division one winner has become an instant millionaire, sudden wealth can bring unexpected challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">One young Brit who won $7.6 million earlier this year revealed that he became embroiled in a bitter family dispute after offering his parents $1.4 million as a thank-you gift \u2014 an amount he claimed they rejected. He has since invested the bulk of his winnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One West Australian has become an instant millionaire after taking out a division one prize in Saturday night\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,1625,12067],"class_list":["post-763855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-lifestyle","tag-lotto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763855","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=763855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}