A Sydney man has been left “speechless” after discovering he had won the entire $30 million prize in Thursday night's Powerball jackpot. The man, from Camden in the city's southwest, said he checked the ticket “every 10 minutes” once he learned he had scored the entire division one jackpot.
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A Sydney man will live out his childhood dream of owning a Lamborghini after winning $30 million. The man, from Camden in Sydney's south-west, said he checked his ticket "every 10 minutes" after finding out he'd won the entire division one share of last night's Powerball draw.
A Camden man is preparing for life as a newly made multi-millionaire after bagging last night's entire $30 million Powerball jackpot. The New South Wales player held the only division one winning entry in last night's Powerball draw 1404, drawn Thursday 13 April 2023.
The lucky draw numbers needed to win a big pot of cash include 19, 47, 15, 46, 12, 9 and 21 and supplementary numbers 16, 34 and 30. So far Oz Lotto draw 1521 was the biggest prize offered by the game this year, along with this week's Powerball draw offering an equal amount of the winnings.
The victorious Victorians held the only division one winning entry nationally in Oz Lotto draw 1516, drawn Tuesday, 7 March 2023 and took home a total prize of $20,000,000. We reached out to the dynamic duo early this morning who were completely oblivious to having their lives changed forever with the newfound fortune.
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A $70 million Lotto Max jackpot prize remains unclaimed, according to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) on Tuesday. The winning ticket, which was bought in Scarborough, will expire on June 28 unless the rightful ticket holder comes forward, OLG said in a news release.
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A young Melbourne man has bagged himself $50 million after a last-minute decision to buy a lotto ticket on his smartphone. The winner, aged in his 20s, had one of two division one-winning entries in Thursday night's $100 million Powerball draw - the equal-largest division one lottery prize pool in Australian history.
The last $80 million Powerball draw 1344 was on Thursday 17 February 2022 and the Powerball results were: 24 7, 34, 22, 13, 30, and 6 with Powerball number 10.
Someone in Ontario is waking up $70-million richer after Tuesday's Lotto Max jackpot was won by a single ticket holder in the province. The winning ticket was sold somewhere in Toronto, the OLG says.
The winning Megadraw numbers for Draw 4325 were: 11, 23, 35, 42, 20, 45 and the supplementary numbers 8 and 38. The total division one prize pool was $40,000,000. The twelve division one winners were spread across the country with three in NSW, four in Queensland, four in Victoria and one in WA.
Australia is still waiting to meet its mystery millionaire, with the Perth-based winner of the $40m Powerball yet to collect their earnings. Four days on from the winning ticket's reveal, all that is known is that the sole division one-winning entry for draw 1398 was purchased in Perth.
Winning numbers for Oz Lotto draw 1521: 9, 12, 15, 19, 21, 46, 47 | Supps: 16, 30, 34.
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The absolute best any-prize odds of any of our lotteries is the French lotto, with any-prize odds of 6:1. In second place we have Austrian Lotto, another popular choice due to its low price, good any-prize and jackpot odds (the same as the Irish Lotto was before the 2015 changes), and added bonus game.
1. California, Florida, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. If you're lucky enough to have bought your winning ticket in one of these states, you won't pay any taxes at the state level.
Overcoming odds of 1 in 292.2 million, Mr Castro was the sole winner of the record-breaking $2.05 billion (£1.79 billion) prize, which he won from a $2 (£1.75) Powerball ticket sold at Joe's Service Center in Altadena, California.
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