{"id":370279,"date":"2026-04-08T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370279\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:31:08","slug":"bay-of-plenty-lotto-player-celebrates-21k-second-division-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370279\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Lotto player celebrates $21k second division win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What any Lotto player would love to see on their MyLotto account – a big win. <\/p>\n

A Bay of Plenty Lotto player is among 11 lucky Kiwis celebrating a significant midweek payday after winning Lotto second division in Wednesday night\u2019s live draw.<\/p>\n

The Tauranga-based win came from a ticket sold via MyLotto, with the player set to receive $21,467.<\/p>\n

\n Across the country, 11 players each
\n secured the same second division prize, sharing winnings totalling more than $236,000, a statement from Lotto said.\n <\/p>\n

One of the winners also struck it lucky with Powerball second division, boosting their total take to $37,060. That ticket was sold at Pak\u2019nSave Tamatea in Napier.<\/p>\n

The remaining winning tickets were sold across Auckland, Marlborough, Christchurch, Dunedin, Masterton and Whanganui, with four Second Division wins coming from online MyLotto entries in Auckland alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 8 Apr, 2026 07:59 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[193733,74,3471,1561,9632,6928,22218,40671,807,4960,10506,16507,95541,111,43,139,11550,69,1118,35197,9617,1562,8466,5257,1680,6027,18457],"class_list":{"0":"post-370279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-21k","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-among","11":"tag-bay","12":"tag-celebrates","13":"tag-celebrating","14":"tag-division","15":"tag-draw","16":"tag-kiwis","17":"tag-live","18":"tag-lotto","19":"tag-lucky","20":"tag-midweek","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nights","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-payday","28":"tag-player","29":"tag-plenty","30":"tag-second","31":"tag-significant","32":"tag-wednesday","33":"tag-win","34":"tag-winning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370279","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=370279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}