Powerball lotto winner: Two winning tickets share in $200 million jackpot

Someone’s well and truly hit the jackpot on Thursday after two winning tickets were sold for Australia’s record-breaking $200 million Powerball.

The two winning tickets were sold in NSW and Queensland.

No one in WA won the huge prize but a West Australian ticket took out a massive Division 2 win of $177,092.75 alongside 22 other winners in the country.

More than 874,000 WA players won prizes across Divisions Two to Nine.

The staggering cash prize is the largest lottery jackpot in Australian history, surpassing the previous Lotto record of $160m in October 2022.

The winning numbers were 12, 33, 23, 35, 1, 26, 32 and the Powerball was 10.

It was expected that half of all adults in the country would buy a ticket for Thursday night’s enormous draw after ticket sales skyrocketed over the six weeks leading up to the major jackpot.

The sales have raised more than $43.3 million for the WA community through Lotterywest’s grants program.

WA has a rich history of record prize wins after a syndicate of 55 women at a northern suburbs gym won the entire $80m Powerball jackpot in December 2021.

The group from Curves Heathridge chipped in $5 each and ended up taking home a whopping $1.5m.

Another WA syndicate had a major win in October 2022, this time in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, when a group of 20 won $53m.

The group, who were all night shift workers with a mining contractor, ended up pocketing about $2.6m each.

That win was among an incredible run of luck for one Goldfields news agency — Boulder Newsagency and Lotto— which sold a total six division one lotto tickets in the space of 18 months.