Powerball draw 2620 took place on Saturday, September 12, 2026, with no Division 1 winner among 35,126 winners.
Lotto NZ says Powerball NZ's must-be-won jackpot rolled down to Division 2 in the NZ Lotto draw of 12 September 2026, and two MyLotto tickets shared it.
Powerball NZ's 12 September 2026 draw was a must-be-won draw, and Division 1 went unmatched. That is not the same as the money sitting there: Lotto NZ's media release for the draw says the jackpot rolled down to Powerball Second Division, where two players shared it.
In a normal Powerball NZ draw, an unwon Division 1 stays unwon. A must-be-won draw takes that option away. Before the draw, the New Zealand Herald described the mechanism: if there are no Powerball First Division winners, the money rolls down the divisions until a winner or winners are found.
Our draw database records that as two Division 2 winners on NZ$5,014,323 each — Lotto NZ describes the same figure as the Powerball First and Second Division money combined. The operator puts each winner's overall total at NZ$5,027,676, because both tickets also held a winning NZ Lotto Second Division line worth NZ$13,353. Powerball NZ rides on the NZ Lotto draw but runs its own prize pool, so that is two separate wins on one ticket, not one bigger prize.
It was the final draw of the 10-ball Powerball game. Ben Coney, Lotto NZ's chief innovation and product officer, said the draw was held "to clear the jackpot prize pool, before we reset the game to 14 balls and a brand-new starting jackpot of $5 million." 1News reported the next day that both winning tickets were sold via MyLotto, to players from Wellington and Tasman.
The operator advertises the next Powerball NZ draw, on 16 September 2026, at NZ$5,000,000 — the opening jackpot for the new 14-ball game rather than a continuation of this one. The Powerball NZ hub is where that result will appear.
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