{"id":576747,"date":"2026-08-22T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576747\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:28:10","slug":"lotto-powerball-18-million-up-for-grabs-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576747\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto Powerball: $18 million up for grabs tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier this week Lotto called for Auckland players to recheck their tickets, as a $20 million Powerball prize waits to be claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The winning ticket was sold at Blockhouse Bay Postshop &amp; Stationers more than three weeks ago, ahead of the $40m Powerball draw on July 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Lotto NZ\u2019s head of corporate communications Will Hine said the multimillion-dollar prize will be a life-changing sum for the ticketholder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019d love to get the money into the hands of its rightful owner as soon as possible so they can start planning their future,\u201d Hine said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe usually hear from people pretty quickly after a big prize has been won but, in this case, it seems we need to give the winner a little nudge to check their ticket.\u201d<\/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 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 \u2013 $14.3m, MyLotto, New Plymouth<\/p>\n<p>Top five 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=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" 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":"Earlier this week Lotto called for Auckland players to recheck their tickets, as a $20 million Powerball prize&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20391,3241,2082,23834,39724,305,29529,10506,1132,111,43,139,69,10702,20878,10512,8229,10507,5911,810,73780,102],"class_list":["post-576747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-20391","tag-bought","tag-for","tag-golden","tag-grabs","tag-have","tag-hoping","tag-lotto","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-players","tag-powerball","tag-prize","tag-they","tag-ticket","tag-tonight","tag-up","tag-whopping","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576747","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=576747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}