{"id":640075,"date":"2026-10-24T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640075\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:10:15","slug":"powerball-first-division-one-player-wins-15-25-million-in-lotto-draw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640075\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball First Division: One player wins $15.25 million in Lotto draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">One Strike player has won $200,000 with Strike Four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Twelve Lotto players have won $23,418 each with Lotto Second Division, and one of those players also won Powerball Second Division, taking their total winnings to $42,778.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The odds of winning Lotto First Division are about one in 3.84 million per line. The odds of winning Powerball are about one in 38 million.<\/p>\n<p>What to do if you win<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Ticket holders can immediately check whether they have won if they purchased their ticket through MyLotto. Prizes of $1000 or less are automatically credited to their account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">For prizes greater than $1000, winners must complete an online prize form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Winners with physical tickets must visit a Lotto retailer to claim their prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">To win the Powerball jackpot, players must match all six Lotto numbers plus the Powerball number.<\/p>\n<p>Top five Lotto individual wins of all time:<\/p>\n<p>$33.01m \u2013 Auckland, 2013$44.06m \u2013 Auckland, 2016$42.02m \u2013 Waikato, 2021$37.12m \u2013 Wellington, 2023$33.05m \u2013 Christchurch, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Strike player has won $200,000 with Strike Four. Twelve Lotto players have won $23,418 each with Lotto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[313666,22218,40671,1888,1345,78,10506,16507,1362,1132,111,43,139,69,5270,9617,20878,4758,5911,3018,6202],"class_list":["post-640075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-313666","tag-division","tag-draw","tag-first","tag-home","tag-in","tag-lotto","tag-lucky","tag-made","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-player","tag-powerball","tag-taking","tag-tonight","tag-tonights","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640075","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=640075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}