{"id":505858,"date":"2026-07-02T08:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:11:10","slug":"how-did-a-huntly-store-sell-4-winning-lotto-tickets-in-the-same-draw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505858\/","title":{"rendered":"How did a Huntly store sell 4 winning Lotto tickets in the same draw?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The owner of a Huntly store is “very excited” after all four Lotto first-division winning tickets were sold at his shop. <\/p>\n

The four tickets, each worth $250,000 after last night’s draw, were sold at The Bookshop and Lotto in the Waikato town. <\/p>\n

Vaibhav Chokshi, who owns and runs the store with his wife, Jalpa, was “very happy” and “very excited” that the winning tickets were sold at their store. <\/p>\n

“We can’t wait for the winner,” he told 1News. <\/p>\n

He said the potential winner, or winners, were yet to come foward. <\/p>\n

Chokshi and his wife had been running the store for the last two years, and in that time they had already had a number of big prize winners \u2013 but this was the first time they had sold all four winning tickets. <\/p>\n

He was “very happy” for Huntly, calling it a “lucky town”. <\/p>\n

“All the customers are very nice, and I’m very happy that our local people win that.” <\/p>\n

A similar situation occurred in Ashburton<\/a> last month, when a Four Square sold the winning Powerball ticket, as well as three first-division shares. <\/p>\n

Lotto NZ head of communications Will Hine told 1News that the most likely scenario for the Huntly win was a single person playing one ticket. They likely used the same four lines with different Powerball numbers on each. <\/p>\n

“A four-line Powerball ticket can be bought for $6 \u2013 which is four lines of Lotto with Powerball, so it could be that that is what they have played.<\/p>\n

“However, we won\u2019t know for sure if this is the case until the winner (or winners) claim.” <\/p>\n

He said this was one of the “many” diffrent ways people played Lotto. <\/p>\n

In 2024, the largest-ever Lotto winner took home $44.67 million with a ticket that had 10 lines of the same numbers and 1-10 for Powerball. <\/p>\n

Powerball was not struck in last night’s draw, and will roll over to Saturday night, where the jackpot will be $20 million. <\/p>\n

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