Powerball $100 million jackpot: Biggest ticket one can buy, and updated lucky suburbs, postcodes

Powerball’s $100 million jackpot is just hours away, and there’s one way Australians can get even closer to securing the prize. SEE THE LATEST LIST OF LUCKY SUBURBS

The countdown to Powerball’s $100 million jackpot is now just hours away, and players in Queensland and Victoria are leading the charge with snapping up tickets to win.

After jackpotting for eight weeks, the Powerball prize has gone to $100m — the equal largest prize Powerball has offered in the game’s 23-year history.

If one entry scores the jackpot, it will be the largest individual lottery prize ever won in Australia — easily surpassing the previous record of $70 million.

The Lott’s spokesman Matt Hart told News Corp Australia there’s one way Australians can get even closer to securing the $100m — or a slice of it.

Mr Hart said the biggest single ticket that can be bought into Powerball is an entry called a PowerHit System 15.

“This is a ticket that costs about $154,736 and is the equivalent of 128,700 standard games,” he said.

“It’s a combination of a PowerHit entry (which guarantees the Powerball number) and a System entry (which allows you to pick more numbers — 15 in this case — in a single game). “This gives you about a 1-in-1045 chance of winning division one.”

Mr Hart said this type of entry was only used by large syndicates of people.

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The $100 million Powerball outside a newsagency. Picture: AAP

“We are seeing a lot of syndicates of family, friends and work colleagues being formed ahead of this week’s $100 million draw,” he said.

“The advantage of syndicates is that people can pool their resources to buy a larger entry that gives more chances of winning. Of course, any prizes won by the syndicate are split among the syndicate members.”

But Mr Hart said that buying a more expensive, bigger ticket wasn’t always the best idea.

“It’s also worth noting that we have had entries as small as a 4-game QuickPick worth $4.80 that have won Powerball division one so bigger isn’t always better!,” he said.

“And there always a chance that there is another division one winning entry in the same draw — which means the division one prize is shared.”

Mr Hart also said that last week there were 15 division two winners — meaning they had all of the seven winning numbers, but not the Powerball number.

“So 15 people had entries that were one number off taking home that massive multimillion-dollar prize (they still won $81,533.30 each),” he said.

“That’s why PowerHit entries are worth considering as these entries are unique to Powerball and guarantee that all-important Powerball number that you need to win division one.

“If any of these people had a PowerHit entry, they would have won division one!”

His comments come as the locations for Australia’s luckiest Lotto hot spots have been updated to take in a full-year of data.

The Powerball ticket worth considering is the PowerHit. Picture: Supplied

In the 12 months ending December 31 last year, there were 453 division one winning entries held by lottery players across the country that delivered more than $1.04 billion in division one prize money.

For the third consecutive year, Victoria had the most division one wins, with a total of 143 division one winning entries sold in this state across all lottery games.

These delivered more than $280 million in division one prize money — more than any other Australian state or territory.

However, it was division one winners in New South Wales & ACT that enjoyed the most division one prize money — more than $295.7 million.

The 2018 Lottery Hotspots data also shows the suburbs in each state and territory that are home to the outlets that sold the most division one winning entries.

In Queensland, there was a three-way tie between 4220 for Burleigh Heads/Burleigh Waters, 4221 for Elanora/Palm Beach, and 4215 for Southport/Labrador.

In New South Wales & ACT, there was a three-way tie between 2026 for Bondi/North Bondi, 2340 for Tamworth and 2166 for Cabramatta/Canley Heights.

In Victoria, the postcode of 3000 for Melbourne was also lucky.

In Tasmania, there was a three-way tie between 7250 for Launceston, 7000 for Hobart/North Hobart and 7010 for Glenorchy.

In South Australia, there was a three-way tie between Smithfield/Blakeview/Craigmore (5114), Adelaide CBD (5000), and Mount Barker (5251).

In the Northern Territory, the postcode of 0850 for Katherine was the luckiest.

In Western Australia, the postcode of 6164 for Success was also still the luckiest postcode in the state.

Originally published as Powerball $100 million jackpot: Biggest ticket one can buy, and updated lucky suburbs, postcodes