{"id":388683,"date":"2026-04-20T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:10:17","slug":"sunlive-bop-player-among-eight-30k-lotto-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388683\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; BOP player among eight $30k Lotto winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bay of Plenty Lotto player is celebrating a welcome windfall after winning $29,497 in Saturday night\u2019s Lotto second division draw.<\/p>\n<p>The local win was one of eight second division prizes nationwide, with each ticket-holder picking up just under $30,000 in the live draw.<\/p>\n<p>The Bay of Plenty ticket was sold online through MyLotto, meaning a local player could be checking their account today to discover the unexpected boost.<\/p>\n<p>One of the eight second division winners also struck Powerball second division, taking their total prize to $44,203. That winning ticket was sold to a Hastings player via MyLotto.<\/p>\n<p>Other winning second division tickets were sold in Auckland, Horowhenua, Wellington, Canterbury, Motueka and Otautau.<\/p>\n<p>Lotto NZ is urging anyone who bought a ticket for the draw to check as soon as possible, either via the MyLotto website or app, or in-store, to see if they are one of the lucky winners.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bay of Plenty Lotto player is celebrating a welcome windfall after winning $29,497 in Saturday night\u2019s Lotto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-388683","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388683","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=388683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}