A lottery player scoops the entire $80 million Powerball prize
A West Australian ticket owner has secured the whole $80 million division one Powerball prize - the state's most significant ever lotto game win.
- The winning numbers were made use of Thursday night with an estimated one in every 4 Australians buying a ticket.
- The WA win overshadowed the previous state record of $50 million, which won in 2015.
- Lotterywest acting chief executive Jeremy Hubble stated he was enjoyed being able to praise a WA player on this substantial win.
" We have actually re-written the history publications for WA Lottery tonight with this extraordinary outcome," he claimed.
" It additionally contributes to a fast-growing tally of department one winners across the state in 2021 which has reached 64."
Thursday's draw created a further 311,246 WA winners throughout the various other departments, consisting of one division 2 champion who will certainly take house $89,207, along with six other winners from across the nation.
The largest department one reward won by an individual in Australia was a $107 million ticket sold to a Sydney nurse in 2019.
The mother is among four Australians to have won more than $80 million playing lotteries over the last few years, with a New South Wales man winning $96 million the very same year, a Melbourne cleaner scooping $80 million previously this year, and also a Victorian couple winning $80 million in 2020.
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