Largest Lotto win in NZ
The largest Lotto win in New Zealand was achieved by a player who had exercised their option to play a Powerball number. This is a number in the range 1 to 10 which the player can select in addition to the usual 6 Lotto numbers from the range 1 to 40. Playing a Powerball number costs a little extra than a straightforward Lotto entry, but doing so gives the player the chance to win a much larger amount of money. It is therefore no surprise that the largest Lotto win NZ has seen was achieved by a player who exercised their option to play a Powerball number.
The current record for the largest Lotto win (by a single ticket) was set on Saturday 16 October, 2010, and stands at $28,710,403. Of that total, $400,521 came from the Lotto First Division and the remaining $28,309,882 came from the Powerball First Division. The winning ticket was purchased at a Mobil store in Papakura.
The Lotto win described a moment ago came just over a year after the previous largest Lotto win NZ had witnessed, which was on Saturday 3 October, 2009. On that occasion a ticket bought at a supermarket in Manukau scooped a total prize of $22,434,379. $227,406 of that was the prize from the Lotto First Division and the remaining $22,206,973 was from the Powerball First Division.
Lotto isn’t the only lottery game available in New Zealand, and an even bigger lottery win was landed in the aptly named Big Wednesday game on Wednesday 24 June, 2009. A ticket bought in Masterton won a cash prize of $34.45 million plus a couple of prestige cars, $250,000 of credit on an American Express Platinum Card and various other luxuries, bringing the total value of the win to $36,890,255. This is the largest lottery win that New Zealand lottery players have ever seen, though of course there are always plenty of people hoping that they will be the ones who will eventually break this record!
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