{"id":605452,"date":"2026-09-19T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605452\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:22:12","slug":"lotto-powerball-6m-is-up-for-grabs-do-you-have-the-golden-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605452\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto Powerball: $6m is up for grabs – do you have the golden ticket?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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 buyer\u2019s 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, MyLotto, Manawat\u016b-WhanganuiJanuary 21 \u2013 $5.3m, MyLotto, OtagoFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, Coastlands Lotto, ParaparaumuFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, New World Greymouth, GreymouthFebruary 14 \u2013 $5.08m, MyLotto, MastertonFebruary 18 \u2013 $4.5m, Glen Innes Dairy and Lotto Outlet, AucklandMarch 28 \u2013 $12.75m, MyLotto, AucklandMarch 28 \u2013 $12.75m, MyLotto, AucklandApril 15 \u2013 $14.3m, MyLotto, New PlymouthJune 3 \u2013 $28.6m, Four Square Netherby, AshburtonJuly 25 \u2013 $20m, Blockhouse Bay Post Shop and Stationers, AucklandJuly 25 \u2013 $20m, MyLotto, Auckland<\/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":"The format change was announced by Lotto in March and was the biggest change to Powerball rules in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[107033,124,6309,2082,23834,39724,305,42,185,10506,16507,43,20878,10512,223,10507,3018,40,38,41,39,810,73780,10508,197],"class_list":["post-605452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-6m","tag-could","tag-do","tag-for","tag-golden","tag-grabs","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-is","tag-lotto","tag-lucky","tag-news","tag-powerball","tag-prize","tag-the","tag-ticket","tag-tonights","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-up","tag-whopping","tag-winner","tag-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605452","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=605452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}