{"id":130942,"date":"2025-11-12T07:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/130942\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:55:10","slug":"lotto-powerball-numbers-in-for-45-million-jackpot-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/130942\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto Powerball: Numbers in for $45 million jackpot draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We\u2019re forecasting 1.5m tickets to be sold\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Before this evening\u2019s draw, Lotto NZ urged players to buy their tickets early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cStores are likely to be busy on Wednesday afternoon, as will MyLotto in the evening, so we recommend people avoiding those peak times if they can,\u201d Lotto NZ head of corporate communications Will Hine said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re forecasting 1.5 million tickets to be sold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are also encouraging our players to remember that big jackpots still have small odds, and one ticket is enough to be in the draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLast year, 52% of our sales were in-store and 48% were online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What to do if you win<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Ticket holders can see immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/lifestyle\/lotto-powerball-jackpot-hits-33m-financial-adviser-on-what-lucky-winner-should-do\/VH55W2HRSFFVNLWQ4KEO6GQUBQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/lifestyle\/lotto-powerball-jackpot-hits-33m-financial-adviser-on-what-lucky-winner-should-do\/VH55W2HRSFFVNLWQ4KEO6GQUBQ\/\" target=\"_blank\">if they have won<\/a> if they purchased a ticket through MyLotto. Prizes of $1000 or less are automatically credited to the account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">For prizes exceeding $1000, winners must complete an online prize claim form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Winners with a physical ticket must still visit a Lotto retailer to claim their prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">For the Powerball jackpot to be claimed, a ticket holder must get all six Lotto numbers correct as well as the added Powerball number.<\/p>\n<p>Powerball wins in 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">January 8: $7m, MyLotto player in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">January 22: $8.3m, MyLotto player in Taranaki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">February 8: $10.5m, Glenview Centre Lotto and Post, Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">February 26: $10.5m, Paper Plus Waih\u012b and Toyworld, Waih\u012b.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">March 15: $5.5m, New World St Martins, Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">March 15: $5.5m, New World Gardens, Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">March 22: $5.3m, Windsor on the Spot Express, Port Chalmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">April 23: $23.3m, MyLotto, Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">May 21: $17.2m, New World Whitby, Porirua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">June 21: $15.08m, Plaza Supervalue, Invercargill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">June 21: $15.08m, MyLotto, Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">July 9: $10.3m, MyLotto, Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">August 9: $20.25m, MyLotto, Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">August 30: $12.5m, MyLotto, \u014cp\u014dtiki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">September 13: $10m, MyLotto, Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re forecasting 1.5m tickets to be sold\u2019 Before this evening\u2019s draw, Lotto NZ urged players to buy their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43966,4962,124,40671,40650,2082,1861,78,38040,19136,10506,1132,111,43,139,3591,69,20878,13807,1961,24750],"class_list":["post-130942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-43966","tag-competitions","tag-could","tag-draw","tag-evenings","tag-for","tag-history","tag-in","tag-jackpot","tag-largest","tag-lotto","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-numbers","tag-nz","tag-powerball","tag-prizes","tag-this","tag-zealanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}