{"id":80465,"date":"2025-10-15T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80465\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:30:09","slug":"20m-powerball-draw-puts-new-system-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80465\/","title":{"rendered":"$20m Powerball draw puts new system to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotto NZ says its newly launched technology platform is performing well, as the system faces high demand with a $20 million Powerball jackpot tonight driving a surge in ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>The platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/26\/lotto-counters-and-app-to-go-offline-for-major-tech-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rolled out two weeks ago<\/a>, had now been used by retailers for a fortnight, with the changes including new in-store features and &#8220;simplified&#8221; spend limits.<\/p>\n<p>Lotto NZ head of corporate communications Will Hine said store operators were becoming familiar with the system as customer traffic increases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re really pleased with how our new technology platform is operating after two weeks,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re confident we\u2019re well placed as ticket sales continue to increase in line with a higher Powerball jackpot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With demand expected to spike ahead of the draw, Lotto encouraged customers to plan ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with any higher jackpot, we recommend customers wanting to buy a ticket get in early to avoid any queues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot had steadily climbed in the past fortnight, with no winners in the last four draws.<\/p>\n<p>The $20 million draw takes place tonight at 8pm on TVNZ 1 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/livetv\/tvnz-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TVNZ+<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lotto NZ says its newly launched technology platform is performing well, as the system faces high demand with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59546,27432,59547,59548,7386,47374,59549,43913,50292,59550,111,43,139,69,59551,59552,59553],"class_list":["post-80465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-beat-the-chasers","tag-bradley-walsh","tag-darragh-the-menace-ennis","tag-issa-the-supernerd-schultz","tag-itv","tag-itv-studios","tag-itv1","tag-itvx","tag-jenny-the-vixen-ryan","tag-mark-the-beast-labbett","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paul-the-sinnerman-sinha","tag-potato","tag-shaun-the-dark-destroyer-wallace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80465","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=80465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}