{"id":461685,"date":"2026-06-05T03:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461685\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:14:10","slug":"dreams-come-true-winner-of-28-6-million-lotto-jackpot-claims-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461685\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dreams come true’: Winner of $28.6 million Lotto jackpot claims prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winner of Wednesday night’s huge Powerball win has claimed their $28.6 million.<\/p>\n

A Lotto spokesperson said the winner took home the main $28 million jackpot<\/a>, as well as three shares of Lotto first division worth $200,000 each.<\/p>\n

The winning tickets were sold at Four Square Netherby in Ashburton, who celebrated the big win with cake this week. <\/p>\n

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Four Square Netherby in Ashburton celebrate a $28m Lotto ticket sold with cake. (Source: Four Square Netherby via Facebook)<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, the Four Square posted on social media that they were “delighted” for the winner.<\/p>\n

“This is proof that big dreams really can come true when you shop local. We\u2019re proud to be part of such a fantastic community and are delighted for our lucky winner.”<\/p>\n

The store’s owner-operator, Kim Woods, told 1News yesterday<\/a> it was “quite massive for the community”. <\/p>\n

“It’s a good feeling because we’re a small store and you generally know the people coming through the door and by name.<\/p>\n

“They almost become like your friends because, you know, if they go missing or don’t come in, you wonder where they are.”<\/p>\n

Five tickets won $200,000 in Lotto first division, while a Strike player from Timaru also took home $200,000 with Strike four.<\/p>\n

The other tickets were sold at New World Browns Bay in Auckland Glen Innes Dairy and Lotto Outlet in Auckland.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 21 players won $17,369 with Lotto second division. One also won Powerball second division, taking their haul to $43,448.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winner of Wednesday night’s huge Powerball win has claimed their $28.6 million. A Lotto spokesperson said the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-461685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461685","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=461685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}