With no first division winner for Tuesday’s Oz Lotto $50m prize, the jackpot will rocket to $70m next week
The Oz Lotto jackpot will soar to $70m next week after Tuesday night’s $50m failed to find go off, but some lucky players took home a handy prize.
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The Oz Lotto jackpot has jumped to an eye-watering $70m after there was no winning first division entry for Tuesday’s $50m draw.
The winning numbers for Tuesday night’s Oz Lotto draw 1632 were 37 45 46 12 16 39 24 and the supplementary numbers were 31 44 and 19.
However, 12 Aussies have struck gold after splitting the division two prize of $618,373, with each of the dozen now $51,531.15 richer.
With no winner claiming the jackpot on May 27, the $70m prize for next week will rival the April jackpot which was the fourth-largest jackpot in the game’s 31-year history.
In the April draw, 15 Queenslanders who were strangers, bagged a $70m division one prize as part of a syndicate.
But earlier in the year, the Oz Lotto jackpot hit $100m, the largest Oz Lotto jackpot offered in more than a decade.
A Western Sydney woman took out the prize, instantly becoming Oz Lotto’s biggest individual lottery winner in Australian history.
For those who missed out on Tuesday night, they have a chance with another big jackpot on Thursday when the prize for Powerball is a handsome $30m.
Originally published as With no first division winner for Tuesday’s Oz Lotto $50m prize, the jackpot will rocket to $70m next week
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