Powerball $40m jackpot draw 1394: Get the winning numbers here

So far in 2023, South Australians have snagged four division one lotto wins worth nearly $24m combined. But it was a Victorian who scooped Thursday’s $40m Powerball prize.

South Aussies are on a hot streak in the lotto. In the first month of 2023, four division one winners from SA took home a combined $23.87m in prize money.

But it was a woman from Echuca in Victoria who became an instant multimillionaire by winning Thursday night’s $40m Powerball jackpot draw.

> Powerball draw 1394 winning numbers:
2, 7, 15, 21, 24, 31, 35 | Powerball 18

“My whole body has gone numb. It won’t feel real until the money is in my bank account,” the winner told officials from The Lott.

In addition to the sole division one winner, there were 1,330,835 winners in divisions two to nine who shared a prize pool of $24.9m. They includes 26 division two winners who each took home $26,183.

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Here’s a quirky lotto fact for you – statistically the most likely division one winner, based on last year’s results, is a middle-aged male with a first name that starts with S. All you Simons, Stuarts and Seans, this is your time!

So far this year, a Gawler shopper won $929,000 on Saturday Lotto on December 21, while the week prior a Goolwa couple won $1.9m and at the start of January an OzLotto player from Findon won $20m.

Last year, 22 Powerball division one winners collectively took home more than $764m in prize money.

The last major Powerball prize was on December 29 when three winners split a $100m jackpot, while a NSW player pocketed $50m on November 24.

They capped an extraordinary surge in major Powerball winners last year. They included two people who each won $63.3m in February, a Canberra man who scored $60.7m in June, a mum from Snowtown in SA who snaffled $40m in September and three winners who 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.