Powerball has soared to an incredible $80 million for next Thursday’s draw after no entry had all the seven winning numbers and the all-important Powerball number needed to take home division one tonight.
Although the division one prize wasn’t snagged this evening, a total of 1,475,569 prizes worth more than $26.15 million were won in divisions two to nine.
This included 6 division two winners, who were just one number shy of a multi-million-dollar win, but each take home $120,658.25.
Next week’s $80 million Powerball draw is the biggest Australian lottery jackpot to be offered so far in 2021 and the first time the game has hit this amount since July 2020.
The Lott spokesperson Lauren Cooney said the last $80 million Powerball jackpot was snagged by a Victorian couple who took out the entire division one prize pool.
“It took the Dromana couple four days to check their ticket and discover they were the mystery multi-millionaires we’d been searching for,” she said.
“It was the biggest lottery prize to ever land in Victoria and the couple said it gave them an enormous sense of freedom and peace of mind.
“We are expecting up to one in four Australian adults to have an entry into next week’s $80 million Powerball draw, so make sure you get in early to avoid the late rush.
“If you want to find out immediately if you’re a division one winner, register your entry so we can give you a call straight after the draw to break that life-changing news.”
The winning numbers in Powerball draw 1300 on Thursday 15 April 2021 were 17, 1, 24, 12, 5, 9 and 19. The all-important Powerball number was 3.
The $80 million Powerball draw 1301 will take place on Thursday 22 April 2021.
The Lott’s division one winning tally has now reached 334 so far this financial year.
In 2020, 14 Powerball division one winners across Australia pocketed more than $470.1 million in prize money.
In 2020, Powerball twice offered an $80 million jackpot – the biggest prize offered by any Australian lottery game during the year.
Of the 14 Powerball division one winning entries in 2020, six landed in Queensland, five in New South Wales and three in Victoria.
Tickets can be purchased at any licenced lottery outlet, online from thelott.com or via The Lott mobile app.