If Australia is the fortunate nation, then WA is actually the fortunate State with some mammoth Lotto wins in recent times.
From the 2 $50 million plus wins within the Goldfields simply final yr to this week’s $40 million ticket, WA has seen greater than its fair proportion of in a single day millionaires.
The fortunate Perth winner of Thursday night time’s whopping $40 million Powerball jackpot may nonetheless be unaware of their excessive success.
Lotterywest says it’s nonetheless ready to listen to from the ticket holder whose life modified without end once they scooped your entire division one prize pool.
The hunt is now on to search out the winner, who both has not but checked their ticket or remains to be coming to phrases with their win earlier than making contact.
WA’s largest Lotto wins (2021-2023)
2023
$40,000,000 (02/03/2023) winner TBA: Lotterywest has confirmed the profitable ticket was offered within the metropolitan space, however the ticket was not registered on the Lotterywest Player’s Registration Service.
It is known the winner is a single ticket-holder, relatively than a syndicate.
The mammoth win was a fantastic end result for the State, Lotterywest chief govt Ralph Addis mentioned.
“We’re absolutely delighted to have yet another Western Australian winning ticket and our first division one Powerball win for the year,” he mentioned.
“To average around two division one wins per week this year is a great result for our State and players.
“This Powerball jackpot run alone has seen more than $6.4 million raised for the Western Australian community through the Lotterywest grants program.
“When WA players win, the entire WA community benefits.”
2022
$63,309,056 Powerball (24/02/2022) City News Kalgoorlie: The $120 million jackpot, the second largest jackpot in Australian historical past, was shared between two winners with the Division One ticket value over $63 million.
A retail syndicate from Kalgoorlie shared the Division One prize with a profitable ticket from NSW.
The huge win by a bunch of 250 gamers in Kalgoorlie-Boulder was the feel-good story of the yr as fortunate contributors shared their pleasure, saying they might use it to repay vehicles and slash their residence loans.
Among these within the syndicate was an area journey agent couple whose business had been ravaged by COVID-19, and a girl with 4 foster youngsters who needed to work two jobs simply to get by.
$53,333,333 Powerball (27/10/2022) Boulder Newsagency & Lotto: The Division One profitable ticket from Western Australia that gained a $53 million share of a $160 million Powerball jackpot was offered within the Goldfields area.
Boulder Newsagency & Lotto offered a $53 million Powerball ticket — a part of a file $160m jackpot — to a bunch of 20 Kalgoorlie-Boulder miners.
$25,000,000 (27/1/2022) Oz Lotto on-line: A Western Australian ticket gained $25 million after taking out a share of a $50 million OZ Lotto Division One prize.
One different ticket from Queensland matched the numbers to the Division One prize.The WA ticket was offered by way of Lotterywest Online.
2021
$80,000,000 (2/12/2023) Beaumaris News and Post: A bunch of 55 girls from a northern suburbs health club claimed your entire Division One Powerball jackpot, value $80 million.
The girls from Curves — a ladies-only health club in Beldon — every put in $5 for his or her share of the Slikpik 50 profitable ticket offered from Beaumaris News and Post in Ocean Reef.
$30,000,000 (3/02/2023) Major Luck Lottery Centre: A pair from Perth’s northern suburbs gained the $30 million OZ Lotto Division One prize after buying the ticket from Major Luck Lottery Centre in Clarkson.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
