A Canberra man has just discovered he is $40m richer after finding out via a television news report that he was the mystery Powerball winner. <\/p>\n
The man, from Woden, just south of Canberra\u2019s CBD, was the sole winner of the Powerball draw 1571 on June 25. <\/p>\n
However, he only just discovered he was the winner, some two weeks after the draw.<\/p>\n
The Lott officials had been waiting for the mystery winner to come forward after his winning ticket wasn\u2019t registered to a player card or online account. <\/p>\n
The man heard the news about the unclaimed ticket belonging to a Canberra resident and decided to check his ticket, telling The Lott he is \u201cstill in shock.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just can\u2019t believe it. I had no idea until a couple of days ago,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI had completely forgot about my ticket until I saw on the news that they were looking for a winner with an unregistered ticket. I thought, \u2018Maybe it\u2019s me!\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ticket had just been sitting in my wallet this whole time. I really still can\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man admitted he would continue to work despite the mammoth winnings and would save the prize to set up generational wealth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still plan to work. It\u2019ll more be there for future children and grandchildren,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so happy. Thank you so much!\u201d<\/p>\n
His winning ticket was bought at the Thistle Kiosk in Woden. <\/p>\n
Store owner Rudy Lu said the newsagency was no stranger to selling major prize-winning tickets, having sold seven division one winning entries during the past two decades.<\/p>\n
Among the winning tickets was one prize of $4.8m that remains unclaimed from the Set for Life draw 2072 back in April 2021. <\/p>\n
\u201cI took over the business two years ago and have sold two division one winning entries here; however, the business is long established and has sold over 20 division one winning entries in the past 50 years,\u201d Mr Lu said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I saw the news there was an unregistered winner in Canberra, I had a feeling it was us that sold it.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations to the winner, we wish you all the best and hope you spend it wisely.\u201d<\/p>\n
The winning numbers in Powerball draw 1571 were 7, 29, 25, 18, 26, 23 and 17. The Powerball number was 16.<\/p>\n
In 2025, more than 121.6 million winners took home more than $3.93bn in prize money, The Lott said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canberra man has just discovered he is $40m richer after finding out via a television news report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,187436,128],"class_list":["post-786398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-newswire-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786398","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=786398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}