The owner of a Huntly store is "very excited" after all four Lotto first-division winning tickets were sold at his shop.
The four tickets, each worth $250,000 after last night's draw, were sold at The Bookshop and Lotto in the Waikato town.
Vaibhav Chokshi, who owns and runs the store with his wife, Jalpa, was "very happy" and "very excited" that the winning tickets were sold at their store.
"We can't wait for the winner," he told 1News.
He said the potential winner, or winners, were yet to come foward.
Chokshi and his wife had been running the store for the last two years, and in that time they had already had a number of big prize winners – but this was the first time they had sold all four winning tickets.
He was "very happy" for Huntly, calling it a "lucky town".
"All the customers are very nice, and I'm very happy that our local people win that."
A similar situation occurred in Ashburton last month, when a Four Square sold the winning Powerball ticket, as well as three first-division shares.
Lotto NZ head of communications Will Hine told 1News that the most likely scenario for the Huntly win was a single person playing one ticket. They likely used the same four lines with different Powerball numbers on each.
"A four-line Powerball ticket can be bought for $6 – which is four lines of Lotto with Powerball, so it could be that that is what they have played.
"However, we won’t know for sure if this is the case until the winner (or winners) claim."
He said this was one of the "many" diffrent ways people played Lotto.
In 2024, the largest-ever Lotto winner took home $44.67 million with a ticket that had 10 lines of the same numbers and 1-10 for Powerball.
Powerball was not struck in last night's draw, and will roll over to Saturday night, where the jackpot will be $20 million.
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