Western Australian players have a chance to create Australian Lotto history tonight, by becoming OZ Lotto’s biggest individual lottery prize winner.
If one person takes home the entire $70 million prize, they will be the biggest Australian lottery winner so far in 2025 and become the winner of OZ Lotto’s largest individual prize.
Lotterywest spokesperson James Mooney said the $70 million prize is the fourth biggest jackpot offered by OZ Lotto in the game’s 31-year history.
“Although an individual winner would set a new OZ Lotto prize record, we hope to see a WA syndicate take home the $70 million prize,” he said.
“Many of our larger wins in recent history have been shared by a group of players, which is a great way to share the cost of a ticket and hopefully the joy of a win.
“It’s been a great start to the year for Lotto wins in WA and we hope to add another WA win to the tally tonight.”
In January so far, WA has celebrated seven Division One wins, which is more than double the three Division One wins recorded in January 2024.
Players have until 6pm today to grab a ticket either in store or online and are encouraged to register their ticket to a Lotterywest membership to keep it safe.
OZ Lotto stats and facts
• Tonight’s jackpot is only the fifth time in the past decade that OZ Lotto has offered a $70 million prize.
• Sales are expected to peak between 4pm and 5pm on Tuesday with around 700 sold in a minute.
• WA’s last OZ Lotto Division One win was a $20 million prize from Hocking News in July 2023.
• 19 December 2023 – jackpot not won and soared to $90 million
• 18 June 2019 – jackpot not won and soared to $80 million
• 26 March 2019 – jackpot shared by three division one winning entries
• 7 August 2018 – jackpot shared by two division one winning entries.
• The biggest prize OZ Lotto has ever offered is $100 million, back in November 2012.
• To win Division One in OZ Lotto, you need to match all seven winning numbers in a single game panel – these numbers are drawn from one barrel of 1 to 47.
• The most frequently drawn winning numbers are 47, 21, 28 and 33, while the least frequently drawn winning numbers are 34, 26, 45 and 43.
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28 January 2025