Two lucky players from Wellington and Canterbury each won $500,000 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live draw.
In the Must Be Won Strike draw, the $1.5m jackpot was shared by three players who each took home $500,000.
Tonight’s draw came after 25 players from around the country each won just over $10,000 in Lotto’s Second Division midweek.
The majority of the winners – a total of 15 players – were from Auckland. The others were from the Bay of Plenty, three from Hawke’s Bay and one from Manawatū.
Other tickets were sold to a player in Invercargill and four in Canterbury.
Two of those players also struck it lucky in the Second Division Powerball prize, taking their winnings up to $19,119 each.
The biggest Lotto Powerball win so far this year was to a lucky punter in Auckland who won $23.3m on April 23.
The ticket was bought via the MyLotto app.
Other big wins include two $10.5m prizes won in February, $8.3m won in Taranaki in January and three prizes of just over $5m each to players in Christchurch, Dunedin and Port Chalmers, respectively, throughout March.
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