In a Bible, around their neck or stashed in a folder of old bills, Lotto players have taken to hiding their tickets in some obscure places.
While the New Zealand Lotteries Commission was still waiting for the lucky winner of the latest $20.2 million Powerball to claim their prize, the company has revealed some of the quirky habits of its players.
An Auckland Powerball winner in July put her winning $8.5m ticket in a Monty Python DVD case.
Worried about losing the ticket, the winner then put the DVD under her pillow and slept with it.
In March last year, a Gisborne couple held on to their winning ticket for two weeks before they claimed their $6.5m prize, keeping it in a bills folder for safekeeping.