A lucky punter could pocket a staggering $100m as powerball winnings stack up.
Next Thursday’s $100m jackpot could mark the third biggest prize of the entire year, as well as the sixth largest in Australian lottery history.
Up to half of Aussies are tipped to enter the jackpot after no one has pulled all seven winning numbers and the Powerball number in division one over the last four Powerball draws.
The Lott spokesperson Anna Hobdell said if anyone wins the $100m next week they wouldn’t just become a multi-millionaire, they’d also become the country’s third-biggest individual lottery winner.
“Many Australians are likely already envisioning how they would spend their winnings if they secured a share of Powerball’s $100 million prize,” she said.
“A dream vacation, early retirement, the dream home, and other long-held ambitions could soon be within reach.”
It comes after Australia’s biggest individual lottery winner was crowned in May when an Adelaide man scored the entire jackpot prize of $150m after the prize had grown from $100m.
“We’re eagerly anticipating whether this draw will produce another division one winner or if the jackpot will continue to climb, repeating history once more,” Ms Hobdell said.
While Thursday’s draw didn’t produce any multi-millionaires, there were 1,603,204 prizes worth more than $32.13m in divisions two to nine in Thursday’s draw, including two division six winners who each won $149,108.