Two winners, one from Western Australia and one from Coffs Harbour in NSW, took out the big prize

Thursday night’s Powerball draw has produced two very lucky winners – who will each take home $63m. That could buy a lot of bananas.

Thursday night’s $120m Powerball jackpot numbers have been drawn and there were two winners – and one of them has yet to claim their prize.

A mystery player from Coffs Harbour on the NSW north coast, and a Western Australian have shared the second biggest jackpot in Australian lottery history. Each won more than $60m.

There were two division one winning entries nationally in Powerball draw 1345 on Thursday, February 24, 2022. Each division 1 winning entry scored $63,309,056.98.

The NSW entry was purchased in the Coffs Harbour region. But as the entry was not registered to a player card, officials from The Lott have no way of contacting the winner. They are waiting for the ticketholder to check their ticket and make contact to start the prize claim process.

WA lottery operator Lotterywest will be liaising with the WA division 1 winner.

The draw was held at 9pm on Thursday, SA time, and the winning numbers are 6, 15, 9, 27, 32, 28, 33 and the Powerball is 8.

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. That’s quite a stretch, considering the odds for a standard game of Saturday lotto are one in 8,145,060.

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

She continues to work and says her philosophy has been to “pay it forward” and support causes she’s passionate about – as well as enjoying a more luxurious life.

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

Up to half of all adult Australians were expected to buy a ticket for the $120m Powerball jackpot draw, according to The Lott.

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. Around half the division one winning entries in Powerball are from a PowerHit ticket.

“For last week’s Powerball draw, the peak of sales was at 4.47pm when Aussies grabbed more than 6000 entries in a single minute,” said The Lott spokesman Matt Hart.