{"id":646361,"date":"2026-10-30T23:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646361\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:48:13","slug":"wife-finds-husband-lying-on-the-floor-in-shock-after-15m-lotto-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646361\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife finds husband ‘lying on the floor in shock’ after $15m Lotto win"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Auckland woman returned home to find her husband lying on the floor in “shock” after discovering they’d won Lotto’s $15m Powerball jackpot.<\/a><\/p>\n

The couple, who were regular Lotto players, bagged the $15.25 million prize in last week’s Powerball draw with a $6 ticket purchased through MyLotto.<\/p>\n

The man told Lotto NZ he was preparing a late dinner while waiting for his wife to get home when he decided to check their ticket. <\/p>\n

“I remember the exact time \u2013 it was 9:47pm \u2013 that was the time my life changed,” he told Lotto NZ.<\/p>\n

Overwhelmed by the news, the man immediately phoned his wife, who initially feared something terrible had happened. <\/p>\n

“He was screaming and crying down the phone, I thought something was wrong until he finally managed to tell me what had happened,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

The woman said she was shaking for the remainder of her drive home and ran inside as soon as she arrived. <\/p>\n

There, she found her husband lying on the floor in shock, struggling to process their newfound fortune. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe hugged and I tried to calm him down, it was very emotional,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The pair spent the rest of the evening coming to terms with their win, unable to get any sleep. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t sleep, but we also didn\u2019t want to in case we woke up and it was all a dream,\u201d the woman said. <\/p>\n

The couple had stuck with the same $6 Powerball ticket featuring numbers representing important dates in their lives, including birthdays, their engagement and wedding.<\/p>\n

They continued using those numbers even after Lotto NZ introduced its new 14-ball Powerball game.<\/p>\n

The Auckland pair were now the second winners under the game’s new format. <\/p>\n

While they were yet to decide how to spend their winnings, the man said the money would open up opportunities they had never imagined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is life-changing for us. We have worked so hard for many years, and this gives us so much opportunity for our future,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

“We really can\u2019t believe it has happened to us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland woman returned home to find her husband lying on the floor in “shock” after discovering they’d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,244],"class_list":["post-646361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","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\/646361","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=646361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}