Newsagent posts then deletes hilarious $120 million Powerball update

The newsagent that sold the winning ticket in Thursday’s $120 million Powerball has posted and then deleted an amazing social media update.

One of the two mystery winners behind Thursday night’s $126 million Powerball has been identified.

But in a major twist, the $63 million fortune doesn’t belong to one person, but rather 250 players who bought their tickets through a syndicate.

A syndicate of 250 people from the West Australian town of Kalgoorlie scored the huge prize.

The syndicate was brought together through a local Facebook group with the intention to pay their mortage. The group was called Goldfields, let’s pay our mortgages’ online.

Each person in the syndicate won about $260,000.

Another player guessed the correct numbers. They were from New South Wales and their identity still remains a mystery.

Meanwhile, the newsagent that sold the winning ticket has posted, then deleted, a hilarious Facebook update, simple saying: “We f--king did it”.

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The now-deleted newsagent post. Picture: Supplied

The winning numbers were revealed Thursday night, with the two division one winners each scoring a whopping $63,309,056.98 each.

The division one prize pool was boosted to a phenomenal $126,618,113.96 due to the number of entries purchased in the draw.

In addition to the two division one winners, there were 36 division two winners who shared more than $2.7 million, receiving $77,385.90 each. .

The New South Wales entry was purchased from a NSW Lotteries outlet in the Coffs Harbour region, officials said in a statement.

Because the entry is not a registered player, officials are unable to contact the mystery NSW player.

Thursday night’s winning numbers were: 6, 15, 9, 27, 32, 28, 33 and the Powerball was 8.

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Only the $150 million draw was bigger than this one.

This week’s $120 million Powerball draw is the second-biggest prize ever offered by an Australian lottery game.

It’s only surpassed by a $150 million Powerball draw held in September 2019. However, three individuals shared that prize.

Also in 2019, a Sydney nurse became Australia’s current biggest individual lottery winner when she won a phenomenal $107,575,649.08.

Since her 2019 win, the cashed-up woman and her family have bought a new home and made some donations.

She continues to work, but has revealed she’s happy to never have to pick up an iron again.

The mum in her 40s shocked the nation when she declared on the night of the historic draw that she’d be showing up to work the very next day – and she hasn’t given up work since her win in January 2019.

“I don’t know why people were so shocked,” she said recently.

“I’m still working and my husband is also still working. We both love our jobs.”

The down-to-earth mum is still happily cleaning the house and doing the grocery shopping, but confessed there was one chore she didn’t think twice about ditching.

“I’ve never been one for ironing. Now I do have someone who does the ironing for me and that’s been invaluable,” she laughed.

The Sydney nurse still goes to work every day.

The couple revealed that the prize had made them feel “incredibly privileged” by allowing them to create a legacy that would continue far beyond their lifetimes.

“In those weeks after our win, I walked down the street and I knew that just about every second person bought a ticket into the draw, and I know that I won their $10 or $15 and that really resonated with me. Paying it forward is really important to us because if you change one person’s life, you have the potential to change the whole community,” she said.

“We have already made some really important donations, and we’re always thinking a lot about what we want to support next. We watch the news and we read the papers, and we literally keep a notebook of causes we know we want to help on a grassroots level.”

In 2021, 14 Powerball division one winners across Australia pocketed more than $550.1 million in prize money.

During this time, Powerball offered an $80 million jackpot three times – the biggest prize offered by any Australian lottery game during the year.

Of the 14 Powerball division one winning entries in 2021, seven landed in NSW, four in Queensland, two in Victoria and one in Western Australia.

Originally published as Newsagent posts then deletes hilarious $120 million Powerball update