Will Hine - Lotto Powerball $45mil

Lotto Powerball has jackpotted to a whopping $45mil tonight. If won by a single ticket, it will become the single biggest win in NZ history! Luke caught up with Will Hine from Lotto NZ to ask about the odds. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Will hin from Lotto Morning, Good morning. We're forty five
million dollars in power Ball up for grabs tonight. When
was the last time we had a prize this big?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, it's a big one. You'd have to go back
to August last year when you was a prize to
forty four million and that was claimed by a single winner.
So they were our biggest ever winner at that time,
forty four point sixty seven million in August last year.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Oh so if a single ticket scores tonight, it'll make history.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
If a single person wins, they will be Yeah, the
record holder.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is it true that if it's us, we get the
whole forty five mil just dumped in our bank account.
It's not taxed or anything.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, dumped as an inelegant term, you know, it's transferred.
You get all of the money all at once. Yeah,
it's it's a winfall. So we do help our winners
and we sort of sitting down and talk to them
and we do, you know, connect them with a private
bank to at their bank to give them some information
around wealth management, because, like you say, it's a lot

(00:59):
of money, it's be dumped into an account. Low people
just don't know what to do so we can eat
them up and set them on the road to using
it in a smart way.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
What are the things you find major winners choose to
spend on. What are the first go tos?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
The first thing people always talk about a family. So yeah,
whenever we talk to people, it's always what can I
do to the kids or mom and dad or what
have you? And then it's always mortgages, the fun stuff
those buying. Yeah, buying houses, that's always exciting. We've had
a few parts this year managed to buy their first
house after winning a lot or powerball. And then people

(01:37):
often have something that's been thinking about, whether it's a
motorbike or a new lawnmar.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Or something straight toys and holidays. That's what tickles me. Heysel,
if it's not struck tonight, does ejectpot to fifty mil
on Saturday? And is that must win territory?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, this must be one territory. So yeah, the high
on's basically every ticket, a little portion of that goes
into a prize pool for division on. When that takes
over fifteen million dollars, we've got to say to ourself
it must be one, because there must be one. It
can technically go a bit higher on the label it
must be one it can go. But the highest we've
ever actually said it that is that fifty mark five zero.

(02:13):
And yeah, if that doesn't get struck on Saturday, if
someone doesn't win it in division one, then it rolls
down and division two split it.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
You see. I am the socialist in me likes the
sound of that. And we've had quite a number of
second division wins from mid Canibury this year, so they
could bode in our favor. How excited are people? Well,
how many tickets to expect to sell?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, we expect to sell about one and a half
million for the straw. There is a lot of engagement.
People are into it. Yeah, and we've seen interests right
across the country. I will tell you that interestingly, it's
been a year or two halves for the different parts
of the country. Auckland hasn't had a powerble when since

(02:55):
Christmas last year.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's wrong with that, you'll keep it that way.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I thought you might say that. I think Crushiach is
there three Wellington and Need and so it's been spread
around the rest of the country.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
So yeah, I like the sound of that. Hey, super
super quake. This is something that's probably because I didn't
do too well in high school maths. I still can't
get my head around. Is it true that it doesn't
matter what lofty heights the amount gets to and how
many tickets are sold, the odds of winning remain the
exact same.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Correct? Yeah, so it's one, and it's one in thirty
eight millions for every line and earvery rule for powerful
division one. So we do to our players, even with
big jackpots, I'd still say, still stay small. It's still
an outside chance of winning, a very very outside chance.
So we do ask people to keep that in perspective
when looking at whether they want to buy a ticket

(03:44):
and what size of ticket. So it gets exciting, no doubt,
But yeah, the odd they stay the same.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
But will you're telling me there's a chance.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
There's always a chance, Hey too.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Right, there is. I'll be lighting up today.