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Press Release – Lotto New ZealandThe winner is a regular player who picks his own numbers. His ticket had four lines with the same Lotto numbers and different Powerball numbers against each one. Everyone was. . .
Press Release – Lotto New ZealandThe winner is a regular player who picks his own numbers. His ticket had four lines with the same Lotto numbers and different Powerball numbers against each one. Everyone was wondering, and now it’s confirmed. A Huntly man was the lucky player who won all four $250,000 prizes in last Wednesday’s Lotto draw, taking home the full $1 million First Division prize. The winner is a regular player who picks his own numbers. His ticket had four lines with the same Lotto numbers and different Powerball numbers against each one. “At first I wasn’t actually sure how much I’d won, because I read online there were four winners,” he said. It wasn’t until he saw stories in the media that the four winning lines likely belonged to a single ticket that the penny dropped. “I read an article where Lotto said it was likely there was one winner with four lines on one ticket – and that’s when it clicked that it was probably me. ”Wanting to be absolutely certain, the winner headed to his local Lotto store the following day to have the ticket checked. “The man behind the counter just looked at my ticket and said, ‘you’ve got the whole lot!’”“It was exciting to have it confirmed, but I tried to play it smooth,” he said. After returning home, he shared the news with his partner. “I showed her the paperwork, but she initially didn’t read all the zeros and thought it was $1,000,” he laughed. With the prize safely in his bank account, the winner is looking forward to helping out his family. “I’m going to help my kids out first,” he said. “And then I’ll keep what’s left over. ”Notes:The winning Lotto First Division ticket was sold at The Bookshop and Lotto in Huntly for the draw on Wednesday 1 July 2026. The man would like to remain anonymous and does not wish to provide further comment at this stage. Content Sourced fromscoop. co. nzOriginal url