{"id":544208,"date":"2026-07-26T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/544208\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:34:09","slug":"two-auckland-lotto-players-win-20-million-each-in-jackpot-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/544208\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Auckland Lotto players win $20 million each in jackpot split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Two lucky Auckland Lotto players each won $20.1 million, splitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/07\/25\/lotto-jackpots-to-40m-tonight-how-it-stacks-up-to-other-big-wins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday night&#8217;s $40 million<\/a> jackpot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The winning tickets were sold at Blockhouse Bay Postshop &amp; Stationers and on MyLotto to a player from Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The winning numbers were 1, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 29. The Bonus Ball was 32 and the Powerball was 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Prizes are made up of $20 million from Powerball First Division and $111,111 from Lotto First Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Seven other players took home $111,111 from First Division, with tickets sold in Maungaturoto, Auckland, Hamilton, Taup\u014d, Napier, Wellington and Renwick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Five players won Strike Four, each taking $40,000, with tickets sold in Auckland, Waihi, Kawerau, Taup\u014d and Wellington. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Twenty-nine players from Dargaville, Auckland, Waitakere, Tauranga, Hamilton, Gisborne, Napier, Clive, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill each won $19,686 in Second Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Anyone who bought a ticket from any of the above winning stores should check their ticket as soon as possible in-store, on MyLotto, or through MyLotto App,&#8221; a Lotto spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The jackpot had climbed to $40m after going unclaimed on Wednesday night, making it the biggest Lotto prize on offer so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">It also edged closer to the country&#8217;s biggest-ever individual Lotto win \u2014 the $44.06m claimed by an Auckland ticket-holder a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two lucky Auckland Lotto players each won $20.1 million, splitting Saturday night&#8217;s $40 million jackpot. The winning tickets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-544208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544208","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=544208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}