{"id":374308,"date":"2026-04-11T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374308\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:44:08","slug":"lotto-powerball-12-million-jackpot-up-for-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374308\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto Powerball: $12 million jackpot up for grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">They bought their tickets at Jervois Food Market in Auckland\u2019s Herne Bay and at the Black Cat Store in Nelson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Another major winner also enjoyed a lucky long weekend, claiming $400,000 with Strike Four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Their winning ticket was purchased at Edmonton Stationery &amp; Lotto in West Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>What to do if you win<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" 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\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/lifestyle\/lotto-powerball-jackpot-hits-33m-financial-adviser-on-what-lucky-winner-should-do\/VH55W2HRSFFVNLWQ4KEO6GQUBQ\/\">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=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">For prizes exceeding $1000, winners must complete an online prize claim form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Winners with physical tickets must still visit a Lotto retailer to claim their prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" 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>Lotto Powerball wins in 2026<\/p>\n<p>January 14 \u2013 $10.2m, MyLotto, Manawat\u016b-WhanganuiJanuary 21 \u2013 $5.3m, MyLotto, OtagoFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, Coastlands Lotto, ParaparaumuFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, New World Greymouth, GreymouthFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, MyLotto, MastertonFebruary 18 \u2013 $4.5m, Glen Innes Dairy and Lotto Outlet, AucklandMarch 28 \u2013 $12.75m, MyLotto, AucklandMarch 28 \u2013 $12.75m, MyLotto, Auckland<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They bought their tickets at Jervois Food Market in Auckland\u2019s Herne Bay and at the Black Cat Store&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17525,8908,124,40671,2082,22220,39724,38040,10506,1132,111,43,139,69,20878,6439,4969,2044,3018,810,102,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-374308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-17525","9":"tag-check","10":"tag-could","11":"tag-draw","12":"tag-for","13":"tag-going","14":"tag-grabs","15":"tag-jackpot","16":"tag-lotto","17":"tag-million","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-powerball","23":"tag-richer","24":"tag-tickets","25":"tag-time","26":"tag-tonights","27":"tag-up","28":"tag-with","29":"tag-your"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374308","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=374308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}