”I was on my way home after work and was craving a chocolate bar, so I quickly popped into the supermarket,” the woman said. The couple, who wished to remain anonymous, said they only bought a ticket when the jackpot was over $30m – and that the latest ticket was bought at the very last minute. In August a couple from Paraparaumu won an enormous $37.125m Powerball prize - the third-largest prize won by a single ticket in Lotto NZ’s history. ”My husband had already gone to bed so I woke him up and said, ‘Can you please check this for me? These numbers are dancing on the paper.”’Is it actually real?’” The woman checked her ticket after an evening of chores - and struggled to breathe at what she saw. The winning Powerball First Division ticket was sold at Woolworth’s Wainuiomata in Lower Hutt for the draw on October 7.Ī Christchurch couple’s lives were also changed when they won $33.5m in a late June draw.
