{"id":261171,"date":"2026-01-31T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/261171\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:30:12","slug":"its-a-rollover-no-lucky-winners-in-tonights-6m-lotto-powerball-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/261171\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a rollover: No lucky winners in tonight\u2019s $6m Lotto Powerball draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

\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

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

\u201cWe watched the draw and thought, \u2018Oooh, we\u2019ve probably got four numbers\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t think anything more of it until we could check it, and then there were tears and laughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hands were shaking and neither of us could sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What to do if you win<\/p>\n

Ticket holders can see immediately 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

For prizes exceeding $1000, winners must complete an online prize claim form.<\/p>\n

Winners with physical tickets must still visit a Lotto retailer to claim their prize.<\/p>\n

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

Top 5 Lotto individual wins of all time:<\/p>\n

$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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI had no symptoms of cancer at all, the doctors were extremely shocked when the results came through,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[107033,74,22218,40671,78,302,10506,16507,1132,111,43,139,7805,69,1523,5198,20878,10512,36097,80176,684,3018,3608,1533,16566],"class_list":["post-261171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-6m","tag-after","tag-division","tag-draw","tag-in","tag-its","tag-lotto","tag-lucky","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-no","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-pool","tag-powerball","tag-prize","tag-roll","tag-rollover","tag-there","tag-tonights","tag-were","tag-will","tag-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261171","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=261171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}