{"id":318029,"date":"2026-03-07T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318029\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:41:10","slug":"13-7m-lotto-jackpot-on-offer-as-powerball-rolls-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318029\/","title":{"rendered":"$13.7m Lotto jackpot on offer as Powerball rolls over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Powerball and Strike have both rolled over, meaning there is a combined prize pool of $13.7 million up for grabs in Wednesday night’s Lotto draw.<\/p>\n

Powerball was not struck in Saturday’s draw and has rolled over to Wednesday, where the jackpot will be $12 million.<\/p>\n

Lotto First Division will be $1 million and Strike Four will be $700,000.<\/p>\n

The live Lotto draw will air on TVNZ 1 and on TVNZ+<\/a> at 8.20pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Unclaimed millions<\/p>\n

The rollover comes as Lotto NZ continues to search for a mystery Auckland winner<\/a> holding a $4.5 million Powerball ticket that remains unclaimed.<\/p>\n

The winning ticket was purchased at Glen Innes Dairy and Lotto Outlet for the draw on February 18 \u2013 more than two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

“We usually hear from our Powerball winners within a few days \u2013 it’s rare they go this long before claiming,” said Lotto NZ head of corporate communications Will Hine.<\/p>\n

“It’s a big prize, and we want the winner to have their money as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

The mystery winner would be one of 12 lottery millionaires this year, and the first from Auckland.<\/p>\n

Lotto NZ said there were two possible scenarios \u2014 the winner may already know and is taking time to process the news privately, or they may be completely unaware they’re holding a ticket worth millions.<\/p>\n

“There’s every chance they haven’t checked their ticket yet and are happily going about their day, completely unaware they’re a multi-millionaire,” Hine said.<\/p>\n

Two other prizes from past draws also remain unclaimed.<\/p>\n

In Westport, a $500,000 prize from the November 1, 2024 draw is still waiting to be claimed. The ticket was purchased from New World Westport.<\/p>\n

In Thames, a $250,000 prize awaits a player who purchased a ticket for the February 4 draw from Paper Plus Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powerball and Strike have both rolled over, meaning there is a combined prize pool of $13.7 million up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,244],"class_list":{"0":"post-318029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-personal-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318029","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=318029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}