{"id":232608,"date":"2026-01-14T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232608\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:20:10","slug":"lotto-powerball-lucky-punter-wins-10-2-million-in-jackpot-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232608\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto Powerball: Lucky punter wins $10.2 million in jackpot draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">Two players won $500,000 each in last Saturday\u2019s draw with the winning tickets sold at Fresh Choice Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia and Four Square Paeroa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">Last weekend\u2019s draw came more than a week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/hamilton-lotto-winners-say-1m-prize-brings-tears-and-laughter\/4GO4UDG2HZGAZKY345PCHEMMQE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/hamilton-lotto-winners-say-1m-prize-brings-tears-and-laughter\/4GO4UDG2HZGAZKY345PCHEMMQE\/\">after $1m was won<\/a>, which brought \u201ctears and laughter\u201d to a Hamilton couple two weeks after a shocking cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">The husband, married to his wife for nearly 40 years, received the cancer news before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI had no symptoms of cancer at all, the doctors were extremely shocked when the results came through and it was a hell of a shock to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">The pair watched the January 3 draw with the same numbers they had on their tickets for the past 35 years and had joked about giving up the weekly ritual because they had never won big.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe watched the draw and thought, \u2018Oooh, we\u2019ve probably got four numbers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t think anything more of it until we could check it, and then there were tears and laughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMy hands were shaking and neither of us could sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What to do if you win<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" 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=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">For prizes exceeding $1000, winners must complete an online prize claim form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" style=\"display:none\">Winners with physical tickets must still visit a Lotto retailer to claim their prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" 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>Top 5 Lotto individual wins of all time:<\/p>\n<p>$44.06m \u2013 Auckland, 2016$42.02m \u2013 Waikato, 2021$37.12m \u2013 Wellington, 2023$33.05m \u2013 Christchurch, 2023$33.01m \u2013 Auckland, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"XFozzeHJqgxP\" 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":"Two players won $500,000 each in last Saturday\u2019s draw with the winning tickets sold at Fresh Choice Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138068,74,40671,40650,78,38040,194,10506,16507,1132,111,43,139,69,20878,81043,6439,1961,18457,6202],"class_list":["post-232608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-138068","tag-after","tag-draw","tag-evenings","tag-in","tag-jackpot","tag-kiwi","tag-lotto","tag-lucky","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-powerball","tag-punter","tag-richer","tag-this","tag-winning","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232608","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=232608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}