What are your chances of actually winning the big one? Video / NZ Herald
One lucky punter from New Plymouth has bagged $8.3 million in this evening’s Lotto draw, becoming the second Powerball winner of 2025.
The winning numbers are: 25, 5, 10, 1, 20, and 16. The bonus ball is 28 and the Powerball is 6.
The winning ticket was sold on MyLotto.
The prize is made up of $8 million from Powerball First Division and $333,333 from Lotto First Division.
Two other players picked up $333,333 with Lotto First Division. The winning tickets were sold at Pak’nSave Wairau Rd in Auckland and on MyLotto to a player from Rotorua.
“I just thought to myself, ‘Wow, what lucky people’,” said the woman.
But then a couple of hours later, while driving to work, they found out they were 2025’s first big winners.
“I saw an email from MyLotto Customer Support saying we’d won a prize. My husband thought it was spam and didn’t believe it,” the woman said.
Logging in to her Lotto account to check the results, she couldn’t believe how many “zeroes” she saw.
“He said he still didn’t believe it. It shocked the heck out of us.”
The first big Powerball win in 2025 follows on from a series of major wins in 2024.
In August last year, a single Auckland ticket bought by a family won Powerball’s $44m jackpot — equalling the biggest single-winner in Lotto history in New Zealand.
Their total prize for the ticket bought on MyLotto was $44,066,667, and it included a one-fifteenth share of the Division One prize.
The son of the parents who bought the winning ticket said his family went out to a restaurant to celebrate the win and could hear other diners talking about the Powerball draw.
“It was surreal, we could hear people in the restaurant talking about the $44m prize, and I can remember saying in a hushed voice, ‘If only they knew’,” he said at the time.
A total of $15 million is the top prize in tonight's Lotto Powerball draw.
His parents also said that — as well as not having a heart attack — their “best piece of advice” to any future winner is to remember to eat and sleep in the first two weeks.
“It’s the little things like that that are easy to forget in the early days after a big win.”
Their win followed on from a record $50m Powerball jackpot in June that was split between seven people — each claiming $7.1m.
Other big winners from last year included a $30.16m Wellington winner in April, a $17.25m Canterbury winner in January and a $12.3m Otago winner in March.
What to do if you win
Ticketholders can see immediately if they have won if they purchased a ticket through MyLotto. Prizes of $1000 or less are automatically credited to the account.
