Northland's Lotto streak continues with $500K winner sold

Whangārei Pak'nSave Lotto manager Juls Hyde. The store sold a Strike First Division winner for Wednesday night's draw that won $500,000, the second big winner at the store in a month.

Northland's incredible streak of Lotto success has continued with a $500,000 Strike First Division winner sold in the region.

A ticket sold at Pak'nSave, Whangārei, was the sole winner of the Strike prize in Wednesday night's draw, winning a cool $500,000 with the numbers 34, 35, 09 and 21.

A ticket sold at Pak'nSave, Whangārei, won its holder $333,333 in April as one of three nationally that each took out Lotto First Division.

The latest win comes after Sunnyside Foodmarket in Kamo sold a $200,000 winning Instant Kiwi scratchie, and a winning First Division Lotto ticket, also worth $200,000 in the same week last month.

At the start of this month a ticket sold at Paihia Four Square netted its owner $300,000 as the sole winner of the Lotto Strike prize.

Since the start of 2019 there have also been at least 14 Lotto Second Division wins and two Powerball Second Division wins in the region.

A Lotto player from Auckland won a whopping $16.25 million by being the sole winner of Lotto and Powerball First Division on Wednesday.