{"id":591313,"date":"2026-09-05T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/591313\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:00:10","slug":"lotto-player-wins-28-5m-powerball-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/591313\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto player wins $28.5m Powerball jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

One lucky Lotto Powerball player has won $28.5 million in last night’s draw. <\/p>\n

The winning player took out $28.5 million with Powerball First Division, as well as a $250,000 share of Lotto First Division \u2014 taking their total winnings to $28.75 million. <\/p>\n

Three other Lotto players also won $250,000 each with Lotto First Division. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, one Strike player won $400,000 with Strike Four. <\/p>\n

Twenty players each won $20,945 with Lotto Second Division, with one of those tickets also winning Powerball Second Division to take its total prize to $50,419.<\/p>\n

Lotto said the stores and locations where the major winning tickets were sold would be revealed later today. <\/p>\n

Players were being urged to check their tickets in-store, through MyLotto or on the MyLotto app.<\/p>\n

Last night’s draw comes as multiple changes come to Lotto this month<\/a>, including a rise in the number of Powerballs from 10 to 14, higher jackpot winnings and a brand new prize division.<\/p>\n

Lotto believes this will create larger prizes and more chances to win big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One lucky Lotto Powerball player has won $28.5 million in last night’s draw. The winning player took out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[105539,85,290791,3515,291169,5704,286299,3514,111,43,139,69,39653,185617,291170,291171,291172,2022],"class_list":["post-591313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-action-shot","tag-australia","tag-autodromo-nazionale-monza","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one-racing","tag-liam-lawson","tag-monza","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one-person","tag-oracle-red-bull-racing","tag-pirelli-gran-premio-ditalia-2026","tag-rb22-ford-rbpt","tag-september-5-2026","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591313","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=591313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}