New Australian lottery records could be set this week as Thursday’s Powerball draw serves up a mind-blowing $100 million prize.
The $100 million jackpot is the equal largest prize Powerball has offered in the game’s 23-year history.
The mounting jackpot comes after no players held a division one winning entry in last week’s Powerball draw, prompting the game to jackpot for the eighth consecutive week.
The Lott spokesperson Lauren Cooney said not only did Thursday’s Powerball jackpot match the record for the game’s biggest prize, it also had the potential to smash another record.
“If one single entry takes home the entire $100 million jackpot this week it would be the biggest Australian lottery prize ever won by a single entry,” she explained.
“The current record is held by a Hervey Bay couple who won $70 million in January 2016. Before their life-changing windfall, the winners confessed to never having won anything more than a chook raffle!”
With $100 million up for grabs, Ms Cooney said up to one-in-three Australian adults were expected to have an entry into Thursday’s Powerball draw.
“As we move closer to Thursday’s draw, we’re expecting queues out the door in lottery outlets across the nation,” she said.
“We encourage customers to not only get in early to purchase their entries, but also register those entries so we can contact them directly after the draw with the life-changing news!”
It’s the second time in less than six months a $100 million jackpot has been offered.
Australian lottery history books were re-written last year when Powerball jackpotted to a record-breaking $100 million in August. Powerball draw 1161, drawn Thursday 16 August 2018, saw a young Melbourne man and a Sydney dad share the record-breaking prize and take home a life-changing $50 million each.
In 2018, there were 16 Powerball division one winning entries nationally that collectively took home $367 million. During this time, the biggest individual Powerball prize was $60 million, won by a man from Burleigh Heads in November.
The $100 million Powerball draw 1183 will take place on Thursday 17 January 2019.
Tickets can be purchased at any licensed lottery outlet, online from thelott.com or via the Lott mobile app.
The Lott’s division one winning tally across all Australian lottery games has now reached 205 so far this financial year.
The sign of Australia’s Official Lotteries, the Lott operates and markets Australia’s leading lottery games customers know and love creating everyday winners, winning every day.
In the 12 months to 30 June 2018, 74 million winners took home a total of $2.7 billion in prize money from their favourite games which include Saturday Lotto, Monday and Wednesday Lotto, Powerball, Oz Lotto, Set for Life, Lucky Lotteries, Keno and Instant Scratch-Its.
