{"id":515605,"date":"2026-07-08T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/515605\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:04:09","slug":"powerball-jackpot-rises-to-25m-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/515605\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball jackpot rises to $25m on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous Lotto winners<\/p>\n

Six lucky punters won Lotto First Division at the weekend<\/a>, bagging $166,667 each.<\/p>\n

Another player netted Lotto\u2019s Second Division prize of $50,323.<\/p>\n

If Powerball is struck on Saturday, it would be the second biggest Powerball win of 2026, after a single ticket bought in Ashburton won an eye-watering $28.2m<\/a> early last month.<\/p>\n

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

Each person took home $12.75m. Their prize included a $250,000 bonus win in Lotto First Division from the same draw.<\/p>\n

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

Ticket holders can immediately see if they have won<\/a> if they purchased a ticket through the MyLotto app. 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 PlymouthJune 3 \u2013 $28.6m, Four Square Netherby, Ashburton<\/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":"Previous Lotto winners Six lucky punters won Lotto First Division at the weekend, bagging $166,667 each. Another player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[654,5343,9688,40671,2219,42,38040,1132,43,2551,35837,90,20878,10042,1534,61,40,38,41,39,56726,1533],"class_list":["post-515605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-25m","tag-climb","tag-consecutive","tag-draw","tag-gone","tag-headlines","tag-jackpot","tag-million","tag-news","tag-night","tag-ninth","tag-on","tag-powerball","tag-rises","tag-saturday","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unstruck","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515605","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=515605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}