Lotto NZ’s first Powerball millionaires of 2025 say winning the $7 million prize “shocked the heck out of us” as they were driving in Wellington.
The couple, who wished to remain anonymous, saw that someone in Wellington had won $7 million from Wednesday night’s Powerball draw -— but never thought it would be them.
“I thought the best thing to do was to log into the app and check, so I did and there it was, there were a lot of zeroes!” said the woman.
The woman gasped and turned to her husband, who was driving, and said “‘it’s us! We’ve won $7 million’.”
“He said he still didn’t believe it. It shocked the heck out of us,” she laughed.
The pair later celebrated over a bottle of champagne while discussing their future.
“We’re going to take some time to process the win, but we do have some ideas about what we’d like to do.”
“First we’re going to set ourselves up for the future, then help our family, and later down the track we’d like to do some trips and we’re already adding some amazing places to our travel bucket list,” said the woman.
