Adelaide winner scoops $10.6m Powerball jackpot in draw 1401

A Somerton Park man who won the entire $10.6m Powerball jackpot on Thursday night has come forward to claim his prize.

A Somerton Park man is Australia’s newest multimillionaire after taking out Thursday night’s $10.6m Powerball jackpot.

The ticket was not registered to a player card but this morning the winner contacted officials from The Lott to confirm his prize.

The winning ticket was purchased at Kylie Brown’s Newsagency in Bayside Shopping Village, on the corner of Jetty Rd and Brighton Rd, Glenelg. The winner will receive $10,626,592.

“I can now finally afford to get married!” the winner said.

“It’s a strange feeling, I feel bizarre. Occasionally I’d play some of my favourite numbers on my Powerball tickets, and sometimes I don’t. This time I decided to, and I’m so glad I did.”

He was the second South Australian to take out the Powerball division one prize this month, after a Huntfield Heights woman won $4.6m on March 9.

Powerball draw 1401 winning numbers: 4, 5, 7, 18, 19, 25, 26 | Powerball: 15

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“It honestly feels so good! We were so close when we sold a division two in Powerball before and have been waiting to sell the big one ever since,” said Kylie Brown, who owns the newsagency where the winning ticket was sold.

It continues a strong winning streak for SA lotto players in recent months.

Last weekend a Whyalla man won $1.8m in Saturday Lotto, at the start of January an OzLotto player from Findon won $20m, and there were two big local wins in December.

An Echuca woman won $40m on Powerball in February, continuing an unusual spate of huge lotto wins over the past 12 months.

On December 29, three winners split a $100m jackpot while a NSW player pocketed $50m on November 24. Two people each won $63.3m in February 2022, a Canberra man scored $60.7m in June, a mum from Snowtown in SA snaffled $40m in September and three winners shared $53.3m each in the record-breaking $160m jackpot in October.

That’s a one in 134 million smile – but while the odds of winning Powerball seem impossible, a bunch of lucky Aussies have become instant multimillionaires this year.

If you didn’t strike it big don’t be disheartened, the odds of winning the Powerball division one jackpot with a single game are a mere one in 134,490,400.

But this list of Australia’s 10 biggest lotto winners of all time shows that sometimes incredible good fortune does strike.

In 2019, a Sydney nurse became Australia’s current individual lottery record-holder when she won $107,575,649.

Powerball is drawn from two barrels. Seven numbers are drawn from the main barrel with balls numbered 1-35, and one Powerball is drawn from a pool of numbers 1-20.

You can cut your odds by buying a PowerHit entry, which guarantees you get the Powerball number, but that of course costs a lot more for a ticket.