{"id":391994,"date":"2026-04-22T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391994\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:14:10","slug":"lotto-powerball-struck-one-winner-takes-home-5-million-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391994\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto Powerball struck: One winner takes home $5 million jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Lotto player will be celebrating a $500,000 windfall tonight with their split of the Lotto First Division prize.<\/p>\n

They are from Marlborough and bought their ticket on MyLotto.<\/p>\n

Strike Four was also struck tonight, with a MyLotto player from Wellington securing a $700,000 win.<\/p>\n

Recent winners<\/p>\n

A Lotto player from Port Chalmers won Lotto First Division in Saturday night\u2019s draw, taking home $1m.<\/p>\n

They bought their ticket at Windsor On the Spot Express at Port Chalmers.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday\u2019s Powerball First Division winner said she was left \u201cnumb\u201d after she won a staggering $14.3 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What to do if you win<\/p>\n

Ticket holders can see immediately 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

For prizes exceeding $1000, winners must complete an online prize claim form.<\/p>\n

Winners with physical tickets must still visit a Lotto retailer to claim their prize.<\/p>\n

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

Lotto Powerball wins in 2026<\/p>\n

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, AucklandApril 15 – $14.3m, MyLotto, New Plymouth<\/p>\n

Top 5 Lotto individual wins of all time:<\/p>\n

$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":"Another Lotto player will be celebrating a $500,000 windfall tonight with their split of the Lotto First Division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28848,19333,74,51,149541,40671,71,1345,38040,10506,16507,1132,111,43,139,69,5270,9617,20878,6439,20705,1120,3018,10508],"class_list":["post-391994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-28848","tag-19333","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-bagging","tag-draw","tag-from","tag-home","tag-jackpot","tag-lotto","tag-lucky","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-player","tag-powerball","tag-richer","tag-struck","tag-takes","tag-tonights","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391994","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=391994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}