Officials have released the name of the newsagency which sold a $50 million ticket in order to find the mystery winner.
Earlier, a Melbourne man in his 20s was revealed as one of two lucky winners of Thursday’s 100 million Powerball draw. The winning numbers were 33, 3, 32, 13, 27, 35 and 31, and the Powerball 3.
The jackpot was the equal highest lottery prize ever recorded in Australia — a $100 million prize was on offer from an Oz Lotto draw back in 2012.
Yet the New South Wales winner has yet to claim their prize, and on Saturday officials revealed the unregistered entry was sold at Broadarrow Newsagency in Narwee, in south Sydney.
“As the southern Sydney entry was not registered to a Players Club card, officials have no way to contact the ticket-holder and break the mind-blowing news,” a statement from The Lott said.
Lotto spokesman Matthew Hart is urging punters to check their tickets if they had purchased their Powerball entry from the newsagency.
“While we haven’t been able to confirm the win with our Sydney winner, we can guarantee that when they discover the news, their life is set to change when their bank accounts balloon by a whopping $50 million,” he said.
“Make sure you check your entry as soon as possible because you may not have to go to work on Monday. Instead, you could start planning how you can play by your own rules and begin your life as a newly-minted multi-millionaire.”
It comes after a Newcastle grandad had one of the luckiest Lotto wins of all time, after finding his year-old, unregistered winning ticket in an old shopping bag while cleaning his car.
New South Wales Lotteries had run a campaign urging players to check their old tickets. The very lucky winner did so and found he was one of four division one winners in the Saturday draw back in January last year.
The unnamed man said he lined his reusable Aldi shopping bags with old beer cartons so the bottoms didn’t split, and found the ticket between one of the cartons and the bottom of the shopping bag.