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Tonight’s $17 million Lotto Powerball jackpot has gone unstruck, rolling over to the next draw on Saturday where it jumps to $20m.
Tonight’s numbers were 13, 6, 34, 7, 33 and 31. The bonus ball was 20 and the Powerball was 5.
One Aucklander is $1m richer after striking Lotto’sFirst Division prize tonight. A Lotto spokesperson said the winning ticket was bought on MyLotto.
Strike Four has also rolled over today and will be $500,000 on Saturday.
“They’ve slowly been doing bits on the house, and now they can afford to finish the renovations,” the child said about the winning parents.
“We really want them to do something for themselves though. They’ve been talking about a special overseas trip for a long time and now they can do that, it will be amazing for them,” said another of the children.
Seven winners won a share of last month's $50 million jackpot Lotto prize. Photo / Michael Bradley
It took the family two weeks to find out they had won first prize.
“Because we don’t buy tickets all the time, we usually only check our tickets when we remember to – we weren’t in a rush,” said the winning man.
A couple of weeks passed, and the man remembered the ticket, which was in his wife’s handbag for safekeeping. He dug it out and scanned it using the MyLotto App.
“The app told me I’d won a major prize and to take the ticket to a Lotto store. I wasn’t sure how much I’d won … but I had a feeling that it was a big amount.”
The man stashed their ticket back in his wife’s handbag so they could check it when they went grocery shopping the next day. Before doing the shopping, they took their winning ticket to the Lotto counter.
“They told us we had won $7m – we were so excited,” he said.
Other Powerball jackpots won since then include $4.5m won by a MyLotto player in Waikato on June 12 and $5.5m won on June 19 by a physical ticket bought in Waitara.
12 Lotto Powerball multimillionaires crowned in 2024:
January 27: $17.25 million - My Lotto, Canterbury
February 10: $8.3 million - MyLotto, Hawke’s Bay
March 2: $12.3 million - MyLotto, Otago
April 13: $30.16 million - MyLotto, Wellington
June 8: $7.18 million - Pak’nSave Wairau Rd, Auckland
June 8: $7.18 million - Woolworths Metro, Auckland
June 8: $7.18 million - Royal Oak Mall Lotto, Auckland
June 8: $7.18 million - MyLotto, Auckland
June 8: $7.18 million - MyLotto, Auckland
June 8: $7.18 million - Shop Rite Dairy, Hamilton
June 8: $7.18 million - New World Hastings, Hastings
