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Lotto Powerball $38 million: Where you might want to buy your tickets from

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What are your chances of winning the big one?

The luckiest store in Lotto NZ history has bagged over $39 million in winnings - more than the total Powerball prize up for grabs tomorrow.

Unichem Stortford Lodge Pharmacy has sold a winning First Division ticket 49 times and will be hoping to mark the half-century for tomorrow's $38 million Powerball draw.

The Hawke's Bay store sells six times the number of Lotto tickets as any other store in the region in an average week.

Ahead of a $35m draw in February, the pharmacy was so busy it was forced to operate three Lotto machines at once to keep the queue down.

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Nelson's Richmond Night 'n Day comes in second with 35 first division wins.

If Powerball is won tomorrow by an individual ticket holder, it'll be the second-largest jackpot haul since the game started in 2001.

Seven people have already been made Powerball multi-millionaires this year, with the average winning amount being $14.1m.

Meanwhile, since its inception, Powerball First Division has been won a total of 191 times.

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The largest-ever win came in November 2016 when a Hibiscus Coast couple won $44m after buying their ticket from Dairy Flat Food Mart and Liquor.

In September 2013, an Auckland man won the current second-highest Powerball prize of $33.1m at One Step Ahead in Ponsonby.

Earlier this year, the Powerball jackpot reached a mammoth $50m which was won by two separate players who took home $25.1m each.

The first Lotto draw was held on August 1, 1987, and in the 33 years since then, 943 people have become millionaires after winning Lotto NZ games.

NEW ZEALAND'S TOP 5 LUCKIEST LOTTO STORES

1. Unichem Stortford Lodge Pharmacy, Hastings, with 49 first-division wins;

2. Richmond Night 'n Day, Nelson, with 35 first-division wins;

3*. Pak'nSave Riccarton, Christchurch, and Coastlands Lotto, Paraparaumu with 33 first division wins;

5. Hornby Mall Lotto, Christchurch with 31 first-division wins.

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