Monster Powerball jackpot soars to $100million – here’s what you need to know

By NICK WILSON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 15:52 BST, 5 June 2025 | Updated: 15:52 BST, 5 June 2025

The Powerball jackpot has soared to a whopping nine figures after it failed to go off for a fourth consecutive week.

Thursday night’s $50m Powerball jackpot was the biggest since a Queensland man won $60m in February. 

The winning numbers from draw 1516 were 1, 30, 12, 34, 24, 9 and 6. The Powerball was 10. 

There were no division one winners as the jackpot for next week’s draw soared to $100million – the equal highest in 2025.

Six division two winners are $121,979.60 richer while another 93 third division winners pocketed $9,783.90. 

One in two Australian adults are expected to enter next week’s draw. 

If one single player takes out the entire jackpot,  they’ll share the crown of Australia’s third biggest individual lottery winner ever.

‘It’s been more than six months since Powerball last offered $100 million to Australian lottery players – on that occasion, the prize was won by two division one winning entries,’ The Lott spokesperson Matt Hart said. 

The numbers for Thursday night’s $50m Powerball draw have been drawn

The Powerball jackpot will soar to $100m on June 13 

‘We will be waiting on the edge of our seats to see if Powerball welcomes another division one winner or two next week, or if the jackpot climbs even higher. 

‘So far this year, Powerball has seen a steady procession of division one winners, which is why we haven’t seen the jackpot climb too high… until now.’

The last Powerball division one win was on May 9 when a NSW man going through a ‘rough patch’ pocketed $30 million.

‘The ticket was there with all the bills,’ he told The Lott officials. 

‘There will be no more worrying about bills now. I don’t care if I get a bill now.’

Thursday night’s draw comes two days after a Tasmanian made early retirement plans after taking home $70million in Tuesday night’s OzLotto jackpot. 

The lucky winner, who secured the island state’s biggest ever lottery win, told The Lott he ‘hardly slept all night’ after learning he had won. 

‘I was wondering if I was dreaming and I was going to wake up and someone was going to say ‘it was all just a dream’,’ he told The Lott officials

Despite the lifechanging windfall, the man showed up for work the next morning. 

‘It’s minus one degree here at the moment where I am working. I might just go and hand my resignation in right now,’ he said. 

The Lott recorded 422 division one winners in 2024, including 19 Powerball entries who pocketed more than $758m in prize money.

During that time, Powerball offered a $200m jackpot, the biggest in Australian history, and an Adelaide man who won $150m became the nation’s biggest individual lottery winner.

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Monster Powerball jackpot soars to $100million – here’s what you need to know

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