- Third biggest lottery prize in Australia this year
Millions of Australians are scrambling to find their tickets in the hope that Christmas has come early in the form of a life-changing windfall after Thursday night’s $100 million Powerball jackpot numbers were revealed. evening.
The monstrous jackpot was the third largest lottery prize in Australia this year and the sixth largest in Australian lottery history.
The winning numbers for Powerball drawing 1489 were 22, 10, 4, 31, 1, 26 and 9, while the Powerball was 14.
One in two Australian adults were expected to buy a ticket for Thursday night’s draw. Registration closed one hour before the draw.
The jackpot grew to $100 million after there were no division one winners in the past four weeks.
The odds of picking the seven numbers plus the Powerball may be 134 million to 1, but that didn’t stop millions of Australians from risking their money.
Thursday night’s Powerball jackpot was the sixth largest in Australian lottery history.
“This $100 million Powerball jackpot is the largest prize offered by any Australian lottery game in more than three months and we anticipate a huge rush across the country,” Lott spokesperson Anna Hobdell previously said.
Over the last decade, Australians have pocketed $4.78 billion in Powerball division one prize money across 176 wins.
NSW and Victoria lead Queensland in premiership wins during that time frame.
But the lottery’s biggest individual winner is a South Australian man who received $150 million in May.
A Brisbane woman was the latest person to hit the lottery jackpot, pocketing a cheeky $100 million in August.
Millions of Australians bought a ticket for Thursday night’s draw
In FY24, 19 Powerball division one winning entries across Australia pocketed more than $758 million in prizes.
Of the 19 division one winners, eight landed in New South Wales, six in Victoria, three in Queensland and one each in South Australia and Western Australia.
A Sydney nurse who won a $107 million Powerball jackpot in 2019 previously shared advice for Australia’s next billionaire.
‘If it is possible and you can bear it, get up the next morning and go to work. “It gives you normality and allows the news to sink in little by little,” he said.
‘It takes two weeks for the prize money to arrive. I used those two weeks to hire a financial advisor I really trusted.
He added that winners should be careful who they tell.
“Only a handful of people know,” he said of his victory.
‘Take some time to think about who you might tell before you start sharing the news with your family and friends, and let the story get out of the headlines first.
‘I have a small group of very loyal friends and you don’t know how people will react, but I haven’t received any negative response.
The next Powerball drawing will be on December 5.