The life of 1 fortunate Australian may very well be modified in a single day, with an eye-watering $40m Powerball up for grabs in Thursday’s draw.
The jackpot and supreme prize for draw 1418, might see somebody match a few of 2023’s largest winners to date.
And to extend your probabilities of profitable the Lott, operator of Powerball, has launched new information revealing the stunning traits round this 12 months’s luckiest Powerball entries to date.
Of 2023’s 9 massive winners, 4 have been in NSW, two in SA and one every in Queensland, Victoria and WA.
In complete the winners took residence greater than $254m in prize cash.
The largest winner of the 12 months to date was a Western Sydney man who took residence $100m on June 22 and have become the second-biggest winner in Australian lottery historical past.
He was adopted by the second largest wins of the 12 months to date, which have been in Victoria and WA, each amassing a $40m jackpot.
The largest Australian lottery winner of all time was a Sydney nurse who received greater than $107m in January 2019.
Of the 9 Powerball division one winners in 2023, 5 of which have been marked entries.
A marked entry is when an individual selects the numbers on their ticket themselves — in earlier years QuickPicks (randomly generated numbers on tickets) have been essentially the most profitable.
4 of this 12 months’s division one profitable entries have been PowerHit entries, a ticket which ensures the Powerball quantity wanted to win division one.
Whereas the numbers drawn in Powerball are fully random and every have an equal probability of being chosen, there are some which have appeared extra typically than others.
As of June 19, the Powerball’s most important barrel, which selects seven numbers from 1-35, mostly produced the numbers 17, 7, 9, 2 and 28.
The least continuously drawn from the principle barrel have been 31, 33, 34, 15 and 6.
The Powerball barrel, from which the one essential Powerball quantity is drawn from 1-20, mostly noticed 3 and 19 chosen.
Each 14 and 16 have been the rarest to be drawn.
Tonight’s $40m Powerball, draw 1418, closes at 7.30pm AEST on July 20, 2023.
