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All but one of five $6.1 million tickets from the weekend's biggest ever Lotto draw have been claimed.
Lotto's $30m Powerball jackpot was split between five second division winners on Saturday night, after no one won the first division.
Two tickets sold in Wellington and one sold in Auckland had been officially claimed, while the New Zealand Lotteries Commission said it had also heard from the winner who bought a winning ticket from Reefton on the West Coast.
The unclaimed ticket was sold at Manukau Pak 'N Save in Auckland.
Among the winners was an Auckland woman, who said she got a huge fright when her numbers came up during the live Lotto draw on Saturday night.
The woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, said she had been living pay day to pay day and had had to borrow money to fly to Wellington to claim her millions.
"I always used to watch those draws and think why can't it be me, even fifty thousand would have been enough to let me get ahead. Life has not been easy."
Two Wellington families were also stunned by their $6.1 million shares of the jackpot.
One family, with older children, bought tickets for last week's draw, and all joked during the week about having the winning ticket.
"One of our children actually said lucky charms over all the tickets, as they reckoned it would bring us good luck," the winning parents said.
Another Wellington family said they were still in disbelief at the win.
"I thought my husband was having me on and reading out the numbers from the ticket I was checking," said one of the winners.
"I was checking the ticket from the bottom-up and it was that bottom line that had the prize, I couldn't believe my eyes."
- NZPA
