Lotto Powerball players have had no joy winning big on the $19.7 million draw tonight Photo / Michael Bradley
The mouth-watering $19.7 million Lotto Powerball prize keeps rolling on.
The sum was up for grabs in tonight’s Super Saturday Lotto Powerball draw.
But no one was lucky enough to have all the required winning numbers.
The numbers were: 12, 23, 4, 26, 27 and 6. The Bonus Ball was 19, and the Power Ball was 9.
Lotto Powerball will now roll over to the Big Wednesday draw where $20m will be up for grabs.
The biggest winners tonight were two Lotto players from Whangārei and Auckland who each won $500,000 with Lotto First Division.
The winning tickets were sold at Kamo Lotto in Whangārei and New World Metro Shore City in Auckland.
In mid-August one lucky Powerball player from Kaikoura won $8.2m with Powerball First Division. The winning ticket was sold at New World Kaikoura in Kaikoura.
The prize was made up of $8m from Powerball First Division and $200,000 from Lotto First Division. It was the 13th multi-millionaire of 2022, and the win came just a fortnight after a lucky player from Lower Hutt won $6.5m with Powerball First Division.
In late October, a Wellington couple secured a $16m prize.
After realising they had won, they spent a restless night dreaming about what they could spend the money on.
“I kept nudging my husband every half hour or so to see if he was asleep, my mind was racing with all the amazing things we’d be able to do, and I needed to talk!
“He was a bit calmer than me, but only because he wasn’t sure it was actually real,” the woman said.
The couple purchased their ticket online, and were left staggered when they received a message to say they had won money in the draw.
“I honestly thought it was a glitch – never in a million years did I think we’d win,” the woman’s partner said.
“We waited a while and when we saw in the news that $16m had been won in Wellington, that’s when I started to think ‘okay, maybe it could be us’.”
The 19-year-old disappeared without her wallet or mobile phone.