{"id":584812,"date":"2026-08-30T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584812\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:48:12","slug":"three-lotto-players-share-prize-as-powerball-rolls-over-to-25m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584812\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lotto players share prize as Powerball rolls over to $25m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three lucky Lotto First Division players have taken home $333,333 each after last night’s draw, while another three players won the same amount with Strike Four as Powerball was not struck and rolled over to $25 million. <\/p>\n

The three First Division Tickets were sold at West City Lotto in Auckland, and through MyLotto to players in Auckland and Invercargill. <\/p>\n

Another three players each pocketed $333,333 with Strike Four. <\/p>\n

Those tickets were sold at Tauranga City Lotto, Pak N Save Clarence St in Hamilton and through MyLotto to a player in Waikato. <\/p>\n

Powerball<\/a> was not struck on Saturday and rolled over to $25 million for Wednesday’s draw. <\/p>\n

Ten players also won $37,752 each with Lotto Second Division. <\/p>\n

The winning tickets were sold at Pak N Save Kaitaia, New World Stonefields in Auckland, Pak N Save Kilbirnie in Wellington, New World Timaru and New World Centre City in Dunedin. <\/p>\n

The remaining winning tickets were won by MyLotto players in Auckland, Waikato, Palmerston North, and Whakat\u0101ne, where two winning tickets were purchased. <\/p>\n

Lotto urged anyone who bought a ticket from any of these locations to check it- in-store or through the MyLotto app. <\/p>\n

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A Lotto Powerball ticket. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

Powerball changes on the way<\/p>\n

Powerball is set for its biggest shake-up in nearly two decades<\/a>, with changes to the game taking effect from September 13. <\/p>\n

The number of Powerball numbers players can choose will increase from 10 to 14, making the prize significantly harder to win. <\/p>\n

Watch on TVNZ+: The biggest change to Lotto in decades<\/a><\/p>\n

The odds of winning Powerball Division 1 will jump from one in 38.4 million to one in 53.7 million. <\/p>\n

A new Division 8 prize pool will also be introduced, offering a fixed $12 prize. Lotto said the new division would result in more Powerball winners overall each week, despite the existing divisions becoming harder to win. <\/p>\n

Ticket prices will remain the same. <\/p>\n

The final Lotto draw under the 10-ball Powerball format will be a Must Be Won draw on Saturday, September 12. If there is no Powerball Division 1 winner, the jackpot prize will be shared among winners in the next winning division. <\/p>\n

Tickets for the revamped game will go on sale on September 13, ahead of the first draw under the new format on Wednesday, September 16. <\/p>\n

MyLotto will also close early tonight while updates for the new game were carried out. The site will close at 9pm, while Instant Kiwi Online will close at 8.30pm.<\/p>\n

Both sites are expected to reopen as usual at 6.30am on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three lucky Lotto First Division players have taken home $333,333 each after last night’s draw, while another three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[275,287842,286809,248217,111,43,139,69,280,177914,583,5130,584,1430,3337],"class_list":["post-584812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-canada","tag-cppixtoronto","tag-lake-america","tag-lake-ontario","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ontario","tag-skyline","tag-tariff","tag-toronto","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584812","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=584812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}