Lotto: $38 million Powerball jackpot numbers drawn

  • 05/11/2016
Lotto: $38 million Powerball jackpot numbers drawn

The numbers for Saturday night's massive $38 million jackpot have been drawn, but nobody won the big prize.

The numbers were 24, 16, 3, 40, 11, 38 and bonus ball 35, and the Powerball number was 7.

The Powerball jackpot will go up to a must-win $44 million, to be drawn on Wednesday night.

So what happens if you win on Wednesday?

Winning $44 million would come as a shock to anyone, so how do you cope with such a windfall?

Winners are provided with support, guidance, and are referred to experts who can help them manage their winnings well into the future.

"Once they give us a call we'll work out the right time for them to come up to our office in Auckland and then we sit down with them in person," says Lotto's general manager of communications, Emilia Mazur.

When does a winner get the money?

Once a major Lotto winner has visited its Auckland head office, they receive their winnings in their bank account the next day.

Ms Mazur says: "Lots of our winners tell us they refresh internet banking quite religiously until they see all of those zeros."

Does a winner's name become public?

Not if they don't want it to. Lotto told Newshub that they will ensure a winner's anonymity if that is their preference. There is also no legal requirement for a major Lotto winner to talk about their windfall publicly.

There have been instances in the past of major winners being pressured into giving cash to long-lost friends and family.

Where is the luckiest Lotto shop in New Zealand then?

Unichem Stortford Lodge in Hastings has sold about forty First Division, Powerball and Strike winning tickets sold over the years.

It's sure to be doing a roaring trade, as the jackpot grows.

Newshub.