Hawke's Bay players may not have walked away with $44 million but two lucky people have won a $66,667 share of Lotto First Division.
The two winning tickets were brought from Z Wairoa and Napier Food Mart. They have joined 12 others from around the country.
More than 2.3 million tickets were entered in to the draw and this was the fifth time that Powerball reached a Must Be Won draw with a jackpot of over $30 million.
People raced to the store yesterday to get their tickets with queues out the door at Andrew Spence Pharmacy in Onekawa and Unichem Stortford Lodge Pharmacy.
Unichem at Stortford Lodge, previously Peter Dunkerley's, has a reputation for being one of the luckiest stores around the country but failed to deliver this time.