{"id":365491,"date":"2026-04-05T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365491\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:28:09","slug":"bay-of-plenty-lotto-players-celebrate-big-second-division-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365491\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Lotto players celebrate big second division wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>5 Apr, 2026 08:39 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The winning tickets were bought on MyLotto. Photo \/ Lotto<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lotto luck has landed in the Bay of Plenty, with three local players among 15 nationwide winners to strike it lucky in Saturday night\u2019s live draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Bay of Plenty tickets sold through MyLotto in Tauranga (two winners) and Kawerau (one winner) each secured a share of Lotto second division, taking<br \/>\n         home $18,258 apiece.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Across the country, a total of 15 players won Lotto second division, with tickets sold in locations including Kerikeri, Auckland, Waiuku, Napier, Hastings, Christchurch, Darfield and Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Lotto New Zealand is reminding anyone who bought a ticket for the draw to check their ticket as soon as possible, either in-store, via MyLotto.co.nz, or through the MyLotto App, a Lotto statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLotto NZ exists to return 100% of its profits back to Kiwi communities, including throughout the Bay of Plenty, via lottery grants programmes managed by Te Puna Tahua NZ Lottery Grants Board.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 5 Apr, 2026 08:39 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3471,1561,8834,177,22218,40671,11927,4960,440,10506,29530,16507,23158,111,43,139,11550,69,1118,10702,1562,1534,8466,4485,1529,16566,6202,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-365491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-among","9":"tag-bay","10":"tag-big","11":"tag-celebrate","12":"tag-division","13":"tag-draw","14":"tag-landed","15":"tag-live","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-lotto","18":"tag-luck","19":"tag-lucky","20":"tag-nationwide","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nights","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-players","28":"tag-plenty","29":"tag-saturday","30":"tag-second","31":"tag-strike","32":"tag-three","33":"tag-winners","34":"tag-wins","35":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365491","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=365491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}