Powerball $50m jackpot draw 1378: Get the winning numbers here

The Powerball jackpot has doubled to a mindblowing $100m – although there were no Div 1 winners this week, eight players still won $110k each. Get the winning numbers here.

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Next week’s Powerball draw will carry a $100m jackpot – the game’s biggest prize so far in 2022.

It will be only the fourth time in Powerball’s 26-year history the jackpot has climbed over $100m.

Get the $100m Powerball winning numbers here from 8.30pm on October 20 – and see what you could buy with a fortune that big.

■ $50m Powerball draw 1378 winning numbers: 1, 13, 16, 18, 25, 31, 35 | Powerball: 2

Although there were no Division 1 winners in last night’s $50m draw, eight players took home more than $110,000 each in Division 2.

There were just under 1.7 million winners who shared a prize pool of $31.9m.

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.

And just nine days ago a Victorian player won $50m in Oz Lotto – a Cranbourne mum who said it left her “shaking like a leaf”.

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.

Tonight's Powerball draw could make you $30m richer ... but the odds are daunting.

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.

A $150m Powerball jackpot in 2019 was the biggest in Australian history, but it was shared among three winners.

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.

If you’re a superstitious punter, we can reveal Adelaide’s luckiest lottery ticket sellers over the past few years.