What are your chances of actually winning the big one? Video / NZ Herald
Kissing tickets, rubbing old trophies and waiting for specific machines or servers, these are the superstitions of New Zealand's luckiest Lotto store customers.
Powerball's jackpot increased a further $5 million to an eye-watering $35m for Saturday's draw after it failed to be drawn yesterday.
Meanwhile, at Unichem Stortford Lodge Pharmacy, the luckiest Lotto store in New Zealand history, hoped it would crack 50 First Division wins this weekend.
Having won 49 times since Lotto began in 1987, the Hastings store sold six times as many Lotto tickets as any other store in the region in a normal week alone.
The store had been abuzz with customers ahead of the mammoth Powerball draw, store manager Carole Ormerod said.
"We have three machines going just to keep the queues down."
Elsewhere, with an impressive haul of 27 First Division wins under its belt, Berrymans was the luckiest store in the Auckland region.
Most customers bought tickets without a fuss but others were a little different in their approach, store owner Sue Gibson said.
"We have a row of trophies on the counter for selling First Division tickets and some of our customers like to rub their ticket along the trophies for luck," Gibson said.
She reiterated comments from Smolenski, with some of Berrymans customers also waiting for a specific machine to print their ticket.
