{"id":595730,"date":"2026-09-10T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595730\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T05:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:22:20","slug":"lotto-announces-10-million-must-be-won-in-weekend-draw-ahead-of-upcoming-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595730\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto announces $10 million must be won in weekend draw ahead of upcoming changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night\u2019s unstruck jackpot of the standard $4m starting jackpot received a boost of $6m to make up $10m for this weekend\u2019s Must Be Won prize.<\/p>\n

Coney said if there were no winners in Powerball Division 1, the must-be-won jackpot would be shared in the next division down where there were winners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe great thing about Must Be Won draws is that the prize often gets shared. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve previously held 13 Must Be Won draws and in eight of those cases the jackpot has been split among multiple winners.\u201d<\/p>\n

The format change was announced by Lotto in March and was the biggest change to Powerball rules in 19 years.<\/a><\/p>\n

There will be larger prizes in every division and a $10 million lift to Powerball\u2019s biggest jackpot prize, taking it from $50 million currently \u2013 up to a possible $60m.<\/p>\n

Players have been warned they will be unable to log into their MyLotto app on Saturday night after the draw, with Lotto NZ needing to make updates to the system.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s expected the app would be back up and running on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

The last big winner under the existing format came at the weekend when Gisborne ticket holders found themselves $28.25m richer on Father\u2019s Day<\/a> <\/p>\n

The winning Gisborne ticket was sold at Grant Bros on Gladstone Rd, which has been a Lotto store since the first draw in 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night\u2019s unstruck jackpot of the standard $4m starting jackpot received a boost of $6m to make up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9055,3017,696,694,5195,9218,138,4500,40671,158511,78,38040,10506,1132,9097,111,139,69,1118,116586,1361,1961,11744,4767,73780,26756],"class_list":["post-595730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-9055","tag-ahead","tag-announced","tag-announces","tag-be","tag-before","tag-business","tag-changes","tag-draw","tag-format","tag-in","tag-jackpot","tag-lotto","tag-million","tag-must","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-switches","tag-that","tag-this","tag-upcoming","tag-weekend","tag-whopping","tag-won"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595730","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=595730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}