Powerball $160m jackpot draw 1380: Get the winning numbers here
Three Australians last night became instantly mega-rich in Australia’s largest-ever lotto draw. Here are the winning numbers for the $160m Powerball draw.
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Thursday night’s $160m Powerball draw could have created the biggest lotto multimillionaire in Australian history.
But in the end three winners took away more than $53.3m each – one each from Victoria, NSW and WA.
■ Powerball draw 1380 winning numbers: 2, 4, 7, 10, 12, 18, 34 | Powerball: 7
An estimated 10 million Aussies had bought tickets with dreams of winning $160m. So what could you buy with that incredible fortune? We created this ultra-indulgent shopping list based on a $160m budget – let the extravagance begin!
YOUR OWN TROPICAL ISLAND – $78.8m
This has to be top of the rich-list wish-list. Royal Island in the Bahamas could be your own private 430-acre tropical paradise, and it’s just a 15-minute boat ride from North Eleuthera Airport. Stunning beaches, crystal-clear water, lush vegetation and your own mini-resort with five beachfront villas. Paradise.
A PRIVATE JET – $34.5m
To commute to your island you’ll want a private jet … the filthy rich shouldn’t have to deal with airport queues. A new Gulfstream G280 private jet will get you to the Bahamas with a couple of refuelling stops.
BUY THREE FANCY HOUSES – $20m
A mega-mansion in Adelaide, an ultra-luxury penthouse in Sydney and a beach pad near Cairns should set you back about $20m in total. Bonus – you don’t even need to worry about rising interest rates.
A LUDICROUSLY EXPENSIVE WATCH – $14.1m
Buying the world’s most expensive watch would eat up nearly half your fortune, so let’s not get extravagant. Just buy the 11th most expensive watch in history instead! The Patek Philippe Gobbi Milan is a 1953 rose gold watch with blue enamel dial. Why’s it so prized? It was the first ever “world time” watch – 40 cities around the world adorn its face, and an inner ring spins around to show the current time in each.
A LIMITED-EDITION BUGATTI SUPERCAR – $5.5m
The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport is arguably the most insane supercar ever built. You’ll want your own racetrack because otherwise the cops might permanently station a radar gun outside your driveway. The quad-turbocharged 8-litre engine doesn’t kick into seventh gear until it hits 403km/h. There’s just one problem – it doesn’t come in right-hand drive.
A ROLLS-ROYCE – $1.1m
Of course, you aren’t going to take the Bugatti down to the shops. That’s what your Rolls-Royce Phantom is for. Its flagship model is nearly six metres long (so maybe parking will be a problem at the supermarket) but inside it’s just sheer luxury.
LIVING EXPENSES – $6m
And that leaves a tidy $6m for living expenses, investments, gifts to relatives and friends, and charity donations. Can you tell I’m not a financial adviser?
Up to half of all adult Australians were expected to get a ticket for Thursday night’s draw after the major prize jackpotted for five weeks in a row.
“The peak of sales during the last Powerball draw was at 6.12pm when more than 6900 entries were sold in a single minute – that was just over an hour before the draw’s close,” said The Lott’s James Eddy.
Two-thirds of this year’s Powerball division one winning entries have been Quick Picks where the lottery terminal randomly chooses the numbers for you, while a quarter have been PowerHit entries that guarantee the Powerball number.
On September 8, a South Australian mum from Snowtown scooped the last major Powerball jackpot, worth $40m.
Before that, a Powerball draw in June gave the sole winner from Canberra a prize exceeding $60.7m.
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.
If you’re a superstitious punter, here are Adelaide’s luckiest lottery ticket sellers over the past few years.