Top tips to snag $80 million Powerball prize
Thursday’s $80 million Powerball is one of the biggest prizes in Australian lottery history.
The Lott spokesperson Ally Ramsamy said the $80 million is the third biggest Powerball jackpot offered this year alone.
“Powerball has only offered an $80 million division one prize four times in its 23-year history,” she said.
“In fact, Powerball soared to $80 million in July 2009, August 2018, January 2019 and July 2019.”
Coinciding with the major prize, it has also been announced there are 23 winners still yet to claim lottery prizes from Gold Lotto, TattsLotto and other lotteries dating back to 2014.
However, for those wanting to get their hands on the $80 million on Thursday, there are a number of ways to increase your odds of winning the entire division one prize.
The all-important Powerball number
To win division one you need to have all seven numbers and the Powerball.
All seven numbers without the all-important Powerball can win a division two prize, but won’t score you the entire $80 million.
A Powerhit entry, which costs $24, guarantees you the Powerball number, but then it’s up to you to ensure the other seven numbers are correct.
The most drawn numbers in Powerball
Some numbers have been drawn more than others but it’s purely down to luck.
However, it could be tempting to pick the historically lucky numbers.
Since April 2018, no number had been drawn more than 17, which was picked 23 times.
Two and 11 have each been drawn 19 times while seven and 22 were picked 18.
As for the all-important Powerball, 19 and three were each drawn seven times.
The lottery’s luckiest suburbs
Melbourne’s suburb of St Albans sold four division one winning entries in the last financial year, with winnings totalling more than $29 million.
Werribee and Point Cook, in the same postcode, also sold four division one winning prize tickets between them, totalling more than $6.7 million.
Griffith in Canberra sold three division one winning tickets.
Sydney’s suburbs of Lalor Park and Seven Hills shared three winners between them, with winnings totalling more than $2.4 million.
The Moreton Bay Region, north of Brisbane, could be considered to be southeast Queensland’s luckiest place to buy a ticket.
Between Warner and Bray Park, three division one winners bought their tickets in those suburbs.
In Central Queensland, Gladstone and Gladstone West also shared three winners.
The appropriately named suburb of Success, in Perth’s south, had four winners who scored a total of more than $2.1 million.
Morphett Vale and Woodcroft in Adelaide shared three winners.
In the Northern Territory, Nightcliff, Coolalinga and Parap each sold a division one winning ticket.
The lottery’s biggest winning newsagents and states
In the 12 months leading up to June 30, there were 107 division one winners who shared in $388.8 million in NSW and ACT.
Almost a third of this went to a Sydney woman who won a jaw-dropping $107 million from Powerball in January.
Victoria had the most division one winning entries across all lotteries in the 12 months with 139.
One lucky customer in Burleigh, in southeast Queensland, nabbed a winning $60 million ticket from Nextra Burleigh Town News in August last year. They were the state’s biggest winner.
In Western Australia, one person took home $10 million with a ticket they bought from Clark’s Newsagency in Albany in the state’s south.
A lucky Tasmanian resident bought a ticket from Sorrell Lotto Hub, northeast of Hobart, for a $30 million win.
In the Northern Territory, Nightcliff Newsagency in Darwin sold someone a life-changing ticket which nabbed just under $980,000.
All other states, including NSW which had the $107 million winner, had winning entries purchased online.
However, one lucky person did take home $50 million from Broad Arrow Newsagency in Sydney’s southern suburb of Narwee.
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