More than $20 million dollars is still waiting to be collected by a Big Wednesday first division winner.

Someone is $20.2 million richer than they were yesterday after a Big Wednesday first division win last night -- but they might not even know it yet.

A Lotto player won more than $20 million in cash and prizes in last night's Big Wednesday draw.

A Lotto player has won more than $20 million in cash and prizes in tonight's Big Wednesday draw.

One Lotto player from Auckland is New Zealand’s newest millionaire after winning $1 million with Lotto First Division last night.

Another lucky South Islander has landed a top prize on the Lotto, pocketing a $4.5 million win.

Winning the jackpot may not solve all your problems. Here are four instances where big feuds have occurred because of big wins.

A Christchurch man who won a $14.3 million Powerball prize over the weekend called his boss to say "I quit" after he found out he'd struck the enormous jackpot.

The winner of Saturday's $14.4 million Powerball draw has yet to come forward - and two other punters could also be sitting on a fortune.

An Auckland Lotto player is $1 million richer after winning the game’s First Division prize last night.

A lucky Lotto player landed a hot start to winter with a $1million win last night.

A winning Lotto ticket worth more than $13 million proved to be the perfect cure for its owner's migraine.

Lotto tickets printed on supermarket receipt paper have been found by lottery bosses to wear out faster than normal tickets.

Choose your own numbers or leave it to the machine? With a cool $25 million up for grabs this weekend Lotto players can be forgiven for pausing over each step.

When Neil Trotter rang former partner Kirstine to tell her of his EuroMillions prize, her response was a remarkably good-natured: "That's typical of you, Trotter".

The winner of the country's sixth-biggest Lotto prize has yet to claim the prize, three days after the $26.2 million jackpot was struck.

Lotto has some simple advice for the winner of the sixth-biggest prize in its history - write your name and details on the winning ticket before you do anything else.

An Aucklander holds the lucky golden ticket worth $26 million after last night's Lotto Powerball jackpot was struck.

A lucky foreigner has banked $1 million while visiting New Zealand this summer.

Hunger pangs resulted in a Dunedin couple winning $500,000 in Saturday night's Lotto draw with a ticket bought while picking up a bacon and egg sandwich.

"I thought 'That's some lucky bugger'," said a Mosgiel man - without realising after 18 years of buying Lotto with his friend they were finally first division winners.

A man has claimed a $1 million Lotto prize - seven months after buying his ticket.

Two lotto tickets bought in Waikato worth $500,000 each were as of last night yet to be claimed, the Lotteries Commission says.