{"id":577693,"date":"2026-08-23T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:26:10","slug":"lotto-four-players-win-250000-as-powerball-jackpot-rolls-over-to-20m-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577693\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto: Four players win $250,000 as Powerball jackpot rolls over to $20m on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, 13 other players also have something to celebrate today, winning $25,851 with Lotto Second Division. <\/p>\n

The numbers were: 40, 14, 37, 22, 20 and 3. The bonus ball was 12.<\/p>\n

Six of the winning tickets were sold through My Lotto to two players from Auckland, one in Hamilton, one in New Plymouth, one in Manawat\u016b-Whanganui, and one in Christchurch.<\/p>\n

The rest were sold in physical stores: Marston Moor Kait\u0101ia, Four Square Snells Beach, Springfield Superette and Lotto Rotorua, Woolworths The Valley New Plymouth, New World New Plymouth, The Blagdon Store New Plymouth and Halo Lotto and Convenience Lower Hutt.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Powerball of $18m will roll over to $20m on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who bought a ticket from any of the above winning stores should check their ticket as soon as possible instore, on MyLotto, or through the MyLotto App.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Ticket holders can see immediately if they have won<\/a> if they purchased a ticket through My Lotto. 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

Lotto Powerball wins in 2026<\/p>\n

January 14 \u2013 $10.2m, My Lotto, Manawat\u016b-WhanganuiJanuary 21 \u2013 $5.3m, My Lotto, OtagoFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, Coastlands Lotto, ParaparaumuFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, New World Greymouth, GreymouthFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, My Lotto, MastertonFebruary 18 \u2013 $4.5m, Glen Innes Dairy and Lotto Outlet, AucklandMarch 28 \u2013 $12.75m, My Lotto, AucklandMarch 28 \u2013 $12.75m, My Lotto, AucklandApril 15 \u2013 $14.3m, My Lotto, New Plymouth<\/p>\n

Top five 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":"Meanwhile, 13 other players also have something to celebrate today, winning $25,851 with Lotto Second Division. The numbers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18479,96295,806,138,3011,305,38040,10506,16507,111,139,69,90,1523,10702,20878,6439,25259,61,1865,1680,6027,8211],"class_list":["post-577693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-20m","tag-96295","tag-as","tag-business","tag-four","tag-have","tag-jackpot","tag-lotto","tag-lucky","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-players","tag-powerball","tag-richer","tag-rolls","tag-to","tag-today","tag-wednesday","tag-win","tag-woken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577693","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=577693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577693\/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=577693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}