{"id":588653,"date":"2026-09-03T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588653\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:30:09","slug":"three-lotto-players-split-1m-as-powerball-rolls-over-to-28m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588653\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lotto players split $1m as Powerball rolls over to $28m"},"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]\">Powerball will be $28m for this Saturday&#8217;s draw after going unclaimed on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Three Lotto players have collected $333,333 each after sharing the winnings from the first division draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">One winning ticket was sold at Fresh Choice in Te Awamutu, while the two others were sold via MyLotto to players in Rotorua and Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Strike four was also not won and will increase to $400,000 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">There are set to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/28\/lottos-top-prize-to-hit-60m-but-its-never-been-harder-to-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple changes to Lotto<\/a> this month, including a rise in the number of Powerballs from 10 to 14, higher jackpot winnings and a brand new prize division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Lotto believes this will create larger prizes and more chances to win big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powerball will be $28m for this Saturday&#8217;s draw after going unclaimed on Wednesday night. Three Lotto players have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[289674,89,2865,48665,289675,289676,169862,7191,1595,289677,16420,12592,794,17612,37020,3523,84097,53942,137885,111,43,139,69,87504,6842,48430,289678,13221,28521,289679],"class_list":["post-588653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-3d-illustration","tag-attack","tag-bacteria","tag-bacterial-infection","tag-bordetella","tag-bordetella-pertussis","tag-contagious","tag-disease","tag-disorder","tag-gram-negative","tag-human","tag-infection","tag-isolated","tag-lungs","tag-macro","tag-medical","tag-microbe","tag-microorganism","tag-microscopic","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pathogenic","tag-pathology","tag-pertussis","tag-pertussis-disease","tag-respiratory","tag-scientific","tag-whooping-cough-bacteria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588653","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=588653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}