An Auckland Lotto player has become $15.25 million richer after scooping the Powerball jackpot in last night’s draw.<\/p>\n
The lucky winner purchased the ticket through MyLotto, taking home $15 million from Powerball First Division and a further $250,000 from Lotto First Division. <\/p>\n
Three other players also struck it lucky, each winning $250,000 in Lotto First Division. <\/p>\n
Their winning tickets were purchased through MyLotto in Auckland and on the K\u0101piti Coast, and at Paper Plus Stratford in Taranaki.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a Wellington player won $200,000 through Strike Four after purchasing their ticket from Gorgeous Goose Cakes & Lotto. <\/p>\n
A further 12 players across the country won $23,418 each with Lotto Second Division.<\/p>\n
One of those winners, who purchased their ticket at Woolworths Waiata Shores in Auckland, also won Powerball Second Division, bringing their total prize to $42,778.<\/p>\n
Three of the winning Second Division tickets were also sold on MyLotto to players from Auckland, Palmerstorn North and Christchurch. <\/p>\n
Other Second Division winning tickets were sold at the following stores: <\/p>\n
– Woolworths Whang\u0101rei, Whang\u0101rei<\/p>\n
– Miami Price Cutter, Waiheke Island<\/p>\n
– Karaka Convenience, Karaka<\/p>\n
– Paper Power Thames, Thames<\/p>\n
– New World Gate Pa, Tauranga<\/p>\n
– Fresh Choice Te Ngae, Rotorua<\/p>\n
– New World Levin, Levin<\/p>\n
– Four Square West Melton, Christchurch<\/p>\n
Lotto NZ urged anyone who purchased a ticket from a winning retailer to check their numbers in-store, through MyLotto or on the MyLotto app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland Lotto player has become $15.25 million richer after scooping the Powerball jackpot in last night’s draw.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69,244],"class_list":["post-640659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640659","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=640659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}