

Typically, 860,000 tickets are sold in the weekend draw, she said, but “must be won” contests “were always higher than our regular draws”. Ticket sales for the “must be won” draw were about double the number for a normal Saturday, Lotto NZ head of corporate communications Lucy Fullarton said. Half of all ticket sales for Saturday’s draw went to support communities hit by Cyclone Gabrielle. The winner of the $15.5 million special lotto draw for Cyclone Gabrielle relief has claimed their prize four days after the win.Īnd while Lotto NZ has made the Cantabrian the country’s newest millionaire, Kiwis - having bought more than 1.3m tickets - raised $11.7 million for cyclone-ravaged regions.
