{"id":453063,"date":"2026-05-30T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453063\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:02:11","slug":"two-kiwis-win-200k-each-as-28m-powerball-jackpot-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453063\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Kiwis win $200k each as $28m Powerball jackpot looms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two lucky New Zealanders are heading into the long weekend $200,000 richer after each striking it big in Saturday’s live Lotto draw.<\/p>\n

The winning tickets were sold at Pak N Save Westgate in Auckland and Four Square & Lotto Martina in Thames.<\/p>\n

Powerball was not struck<\/a> and has rolled over to Wednesday night, where the jackpot will reach $28 million \u2014 the largest Powerball prize on offer this year.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s winning Lotto numbers were 8, 10, 29, 35, 36 and 39, with Bonus Ball 3 and Powerball 3.<\/p>\n

Seven players also shared the Lotto First Division prize, each winning $142,857. Winning tickets were sold at Borman Road Superette in Hamilton, Four Square Awapuni in Palmerston North, New World Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt, Pak N Save Riccarton in Christchurch, and New World Timaru in Timaru. <\/p>\n

Two of the winning tickets were sold online through MyLotto to players from Auckland.<\/p>\n

Ticket holders from any of the above stores or MyLotto were advised to check their tickets in-store, on MyLotto, or through the MyLotto App.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s draw is live on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ+<\/a> at 8pm.<\/p>\n

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Checking Lotto numbers on MyLotto app. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

The $28 million jackpot on Wednesday will be the largest Powerball prize on offer since a New Plymouth woman took home $14.3 million last month<\/a> \u2014 the most recent major Lotto win in New Zealand. <\/p>\n

The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said her whole body went numb after matching all six numbers plus the Powerball on MyLotto. <\/p>\n

She and her husband celebrated with a takeaway and a glass of champagne before planning how to share their windfall with family and others.<\/p>\n

For those eyeing the upcoming jackpot, Lotto NZ was clear-eyed about the odds<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Powerball always offered the same one in 38.3 million chance to win First Division per line, regardless of the amount set for the jackpot.<\/p>\n

Buying more tickets would make little difference either, they added.<\/p>\n

“Even if you buy multiple tickets for the same draw, your chances of winning will hardly increase at all.<\/p>\n

“Because each new ticket had the same odds, there is no way that winning can average out in your favour over time,” Lotto said.<\/p>\n

Lotto also cautioned against reading too much into near misses, saying each outcome was independent and had no bearing on future draws.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t predict which numbers will come up in a draw-based game, and therefore any strategies or techniques are redundant.”<\/p>\n

Still, some numbers have appeared more often than others historically. <\/p>\n

Strike numbers 1 and 19 have each featured on 253 winning tickets, Lotto number 1 is the most common with 418 appearances, and Powerball number 2 leads its category with 210 winning tickets.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s draw is live on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ+<\/a> at 8pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two lucky New Zealanders are heading into the long weekend $200,000 richer after each striking it big in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,244],"class_list":["post-453063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453063","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=453063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}