{"id":848297,"date":"2026-08-08T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848297\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:24:10","slug":"saturday-lotto-draw-4701-two-aussies-score-eye-watering-3-million-division-one-winnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848297\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Lotto draw #4701: Two Aussies score eye-watering $3 million division one winnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Two lotto players have had their lives changed forever after each scoring a division one prize worth more than $3.1 million in Saturday evening\u2019s Lotto draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The division one prize was $3,164,474.87 for each of the two winners, neither of whom hailed from WA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The winning numbers were 28, 33, 6, 22, 36 and 26, with the supplementary numbers 32 and 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">There were 65 division two winners, each taking home $9,339.35, including 10 West Aussies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Of the 1026 division three winners, 201 were from WA and pocketed a handy $895.65 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Saturday night\u2019s draw comes after a $3 scratchie turned into a $50,000 windfall for a Mt Barker mum earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The local woman bought her winning Scratch\u2019n\u2019Win ticket from Mt Barker Newsagency, securing the game\u2019s top prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">She said she had to double-check the ticket after initially struggling to believe she had won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI\u2019d love to buy a new car that can fit all our bikes so we can do more trips to the beach and the bush as a family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two lotto players have had their lives changed forever after each scoring a division one prize worth more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1625,12067,44],"class_list":["post-848297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-lifestyle","tag-lotto","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848297","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=848297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}