Lotto Powerball: Lucky New Plymouth player wins $8.3 million in latest draw

One lucky punter from New Plymouth has bagged $8.3 million in this evening’s Lotto draw, becoming the second Powerball winner of 2025.

The winning numbers are: 25, 5, 10, 1, 20, and 16. The bonus ball is 28 and the Powerball is 6.

The winning ticket was sold on MyLotto.

The prize is made up of $8 million from Powerball First Division and $333,333 from Lotto First Division.

Two other players picked up $333,333 with Lotto First Division. The winning tickets were sold at Pak’nSave Wairau Rd in Auckland and on MyLotto to a player from Rotorua.

Meanwhile, Strike Four has rolled over tonight and will be $800,000 on Saturday night.

Tonight’s jackpot is the second Powerball winner of 2025, after a Wellington couple took home $7m on January 8.

The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, had earlier heard someone from the capital had won the major prize but never thought it could be them.

“I just thought to myself, ‘Wow, what lucky people’,” said the woman.

But then a couple of hours later, while driving to work, they found out they were 2025’s first big winners.

“I saw an email from MyLotto Customer Support saying we’d won a prize. My husband thought it was spam and didn’t believe it,” the woman said.

Logging in to her Lotto account to check the results, she couldn’t believe how many “zeroes” she saw.

“He said he still didn’t believe it. It shocked the heck out of us.”

The first big Powerball win in 2025 follows on from a series of major wins in 2024.

In August last year, a single Auckland ticket bought by a family won Powerball’s $44m jackpot — equalling the biggest single-winner in Lotto history in New Zealand.

Their total prize for the ticket bought on MyLotto was $44,066,667, and it included a one-fifteenth share of the Division One prize.

The son of the parents who bought the winning ticket said his family went out to a restaurant to celebrate the win and could hear other diners talking about the Powerball draw.

“It was surreal, we could hear people in the restaurant talking about the $44m prize, and I can remember saying in a hushed voice, ‘If only they knew’,” he said at the time.

Lotto NZ says a remarkable run of high Powerball jackpots boosted ticket sales.

His parents also said that — as well as not having a heart attack — their “best piece of advice” to any future winner is to remember to eat and sleep in the first two weeks.

“It’s the little things like that that are easy to forget in the early days after a big win.”

Their win followed on from a record $50m Powerball jackpot in June that was split between seven people — each claiming $7.1m.

While two of those winners had claimed their share of the first prize by the next day, it took seven weeks for the final winner to come forward and collect their portion of the winnings.

Other big winners from last year included a $30.16m Wellington winner in April, a $17.25m Canterbury winner in January and a $12.3m Otago winner in March.

What to do if you win

Ticketholders can see immediately if they have won if they purchased a ticket through MyLotto. Prizes of $1000 or less are automatically credited to the account.

For prizes of more than $1000, winners have to fill in an online prize form.

Results are available immediately after the live draws on TVNZ 1, which take place on Wednesday and Saturday nights.

They can also be found through the MyLotto app, online at www.mylotto.co.nz, at Lotto NZ retailers and on nzherald.co.nz.

Winners with a physical ticket must still visit a Lotto retailer to claim their prize.

For the Powerball jackpot to be claimed, a ticket holder must get all six Lotto numbers correct as well as the added Powerball number.

If the jackpot is not claimed, it will roll over each draw until it is won, or reaches the must-be-won limit.

If more than one person wins Powerball, the jackpot is shared equally between the winning tickets.

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