Lotto

A knock on a Christchurch man's door has changed his life, after it emerged he was sitting on a $22.6 million winning Lotto ticket, and didn't realise.

A self-proclaimed "westie" from Auckland has come forward to claim the largest ever individual Powerball prize of $33 million.

A Lotto-winning couple who struck it big with a $15.7 million jackpot earlier this year have some simple advice for anyone who wins tonight's enormous Powerball prize - get good financial advice and keep the win quiet.

Mt Maunganui's newest Lotto millionaire has yet to claim their $9.83 million Powerball prize.

A couple were told at two outlets they were too late to get a Lotto ticket before chancing upon a store still open and buying their ticket.

Lotto's Winning Wheel glitter cannon has been temporarily suspended, after a woman tripped and fell on the set last night.

A visit to Auckland Hospital last week has pocketed one lucky Lotto player $2 million.

He is young, single, cares about the planet and, as of this week, is $27 million richer.

Today's $23 million Big Wednesday draw is the fourth-largest prize in Lotto history.

One lucky Lotto player will be waking on Father's Day with an extra $5.5 million in their pocket.

More than $195 million has been won in Otago through first division prizes in the quarter-century since Lotto's inception.

The world is your oyster when you win Lotto.

Two mums, in Mosgiel and Hamilton, could be waking up as millionaires on Mother's Day morning after tickets bought there scooped Lotto last night.

Balclutha New World sold a $5.3 million winning ticket in the draw on Saturday night, the third Lotto Powerball struck this month, Lotteries' chief executive Wayne Pickup says.

A month ago he won $26 million in Lotto's biggest prize draw for years. But instant multi-millionaire Trevor says winning Lotto wasn't the most exciting thing to ever happen to him - speedway racing is better.

Their bank balance will soon have more than a few extra digits, but a Lotto-winning Catlins couple say the experience has yet to sink in.

Trev, the overnight multimillionaire from Te Kauwhata, has quit his day job at Countdown.

Lotto multimillionaire Trevor has splashed out on a car for his mum and a new Holden ute for himself, and has been talking to dealers about buying a two-seater V10 Dodge Viper.