{"id":527585,"date":"2026-07-15T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527585\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:45:10","slug":"lotto-powerball-results-28-million-prize-hangs-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527585\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto Powerball results: $28 million prize hangs in the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Powerball First Division had no winners at the weekend, 24 lucky punters bagged $16,396 each after splitting the Second Division prize.<\/p>\n

Two of those players, from Auckland, also won Powerball Second Division, taking their total winnings to $30,183.<\/p>\n

The winning Second Division tickets were sold at Four Square Coopers Beach (Northland), Whitcoulls Albany Mall, Paper Plus Ponsonby (Auckland), Woolworths Pukekohe, Whanga Books (Whangamat\u0101), New World Waih\u012b, New World Morrinsville, Fresh Choice Borman Rd (Hamilton), Bayfair Lotto (Mount Maunganui), New World \u014cp\u014dtiki, Ohakune Post and Lotto, Woolworths H\u0101wera, Four Square Ashhurst Village (Palmerston North), Trentham Mini Mart (Upper Hutt), Milton Street Store (Nelson), Fresh Choice Parklands (Christchurch) and Village Post (Temuka).<\/p>\n

There were also MyLotto winners in Auckland, Kawerau, Canterbury, Timaru and Dunedin.<\/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 PlymouthApril 22 – $5.5m, AucklandJune 3 – $28.2m, 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":"While Powerball First Division had no winners at the weekend, 24 lucky punters bagged $16,396 each after splitting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41051,46520,1558,138,36426,7796,305,78,38040,10506,19550,1132,111,139,3591,69,20878,10512,5909,223,3018,18457],"class_list":["post-527585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-41051","tag-balance","tag-been","tag-business","tag-drawn","tag-hangs","tag-have","tag-in","tag-jackpot","tag-lotto","tag-mammoth","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-numbers","tag-nz","tag-powerball","tag-prize","tag-results","tag-the","tag-tonights","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527585","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=527585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}