{"id":509257,"date":"2026-07-04T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509257\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:24:09","slug":"20m-powerball-rolls-over-as-six-lotto-players-win-first-division-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509257\/","title":{"rendered":"$20m Powerball rolls over as six Lotto players win first division prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Some of the largest Lotto Powerball wins so far this year include a $14.3m ticket won by a MyLotto player from New Plymouth on April 15 and a $25.5m prize that was split between two players in late March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Each person took home $12.75m. Their prize included a $250,000 bonus win in Lotto First Division from the same draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Strike Four also has a large prize on offer, after it rolled over on Wednesday\u2019s Lotto draw. A total of $700,000 is the Strike Four golden prize tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Although unlucky for some, Wednesday\u2019s draw resulted in a windfall for the small Waikato town of Huntly, where four tickets worth $250,000 in Lotto First Division were sold at a local book shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">The four lucky tickets were sold at The Bookshop and Lotto in Huntly. It is not known whether the four tickets were sold to one person or if the tickets went to four different people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Lotto NZ is currently promoting its Mid-Year Millionaire promotion, when three extra prizes of $1m can be won. All Triple Dip tickets bought between Sunday, June 21, and 7.30pm today will be in the draw with a chance to win.<\/p>\n<p>Lotto Powerball wins in 2026<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; $14.3m, MyLotto, New PlymouthApril 22 &#8211; $5.5m, AucklandJune 3 &#8211; $28.2m, Ashburton<\/p>\n<p>Top 5 Lotto individual wins of all time:<\/p>\n<p>$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<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the largest Lotto Powerball wins so far this year include a $14.3m ticket won by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18479,806,6928,22218,1888,38040,10506,1132,111,43,139,69,1523,10702,20878,13807,25261,25259,4739,6027,6202],"class_list":["post-509257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-20m","tag-as","tag-celebrating","tag-division","tag-first","tag-jackpot","tag-lotto","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-players","tag-powerball","tag-prizes","tag-rolled","tag-rolls","tag-six","tag-win","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509257","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=509257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}