Powerball (Australia) · Australia · 1 February 2024
The NSW winners, a couple from Singleton in the Hunter Valley, held a 50-game QuickPick bought online at thelott.com. The Queensland winner, a woman from the Brisbane suburb of Hawthorne, held an unregistered entry whose type The Lott did not disclose; she found out by scanning it on The Lott app.
Advertised prize
A$200,000,000
Ticket
Quick pick
Outcome
Stayed private
Took the money, kept their life, said little since.
Powerball draw 1446 on Thursday 1 February 2024 offered A$200 million, the biggest jackpot in Australian lottery history, after the pool rolled for six consecutive weeks from the unwon A$150 million draw 1445. Two division one entries matched, splitting the prize at A$100 million each. One was a 50-game QuickPick bought online at thelott.com by a couple from Singleton in the NSW Hunter Valley. The woman said she had checked "a moment ago and I instantly went 'oh my god'", adding: "I mean you joke about winning but never expect it to happen to you. Well, I absolutely won't be working anymore!" The second entry was unregistered and held by a woman from the Brisbane suburb of Hawthorne, who checked it at 6am on The Lott app while getting ready for the gym: "I scanned the ticket on The Lott app and all the winning numbers immediately lit up and I saw that I'd won $100 million on my phone." She said she wanted to change career direction and start her own business. Twenty-two division two entries won A$177,092.75 each. Neither winner was publicly named.
Both winners came forward within days of the February 2024 draw and both remained anonymous; the Hawthorne woman said she intended to start her own business. In The Lott's published records as of 2025 the A$200 million pool still stands as the largest jackpot ever offered by an Australian lottery, and the two A$100 million shares as equal-second largest individual Australian prizes behind a South Australian man's A$150 million win in May 2024.
One detail worth keeping
The Brisbane winner found out at 6am, scanning her ticket on The Lott app while getting ready for the gym: every number lit up and A$100 million appeared on her phone.
Three anonymous winners: a Sydney father, an inner-Brisbane man and an Ipswich grandmother
Stayed privatePowerball (Australia) · Australia · 2019
A$150,000,000
The third A$50 million entry was unregistered, so The Lott named the shop - newsXpress Brassall in Ipswich - and an anonymous grandmother came forward a week later.
Anonymous Sydney healthcare worker (woman in her 40s)
Stayed privatePowerball (Australia) · Australia · 2019
A$107,575,649
Told she had won A$107 million, she first thought it was A$107,000 - then said she would celebrate with "a cheap glass of chardonnay" and go to work the next day.
Theodorus Struyck
Stayed privatePowerball · United States · 2023
$1,765,000,000
He bought the second-largest winning ticket in Powerball history about 500 yards from his own front door, at a cabin he had paid $90,000 for in 2010.
Saltines Holdings, LLC (Miami, Florida)
Stayed privateMega Millions · United States · 2023
$1,602,000,000
The biggest Mega Millions winner in history is a company: Saltines Holdings, LLC of Miami. The Publix that sold the $2 Quick Pick collected a $100,000 retailer bonus.
Wolverine FLL Club
Stayed privateMega Millions · United States · 2021
$1,050,000,000
Michigan publishes the names of jackpot winners, but claiming as a four-person club meant only the club's attorney had to be named - all four players stayed anonymous.
Three anonymous winners: a Sydney father, an inner-Brisbane man and an Ipswich grandmother
Stayed privatePowerball (Australia) · Australia · 2019
A$150,000,000
The third A$50 million entry was unregistered, so The Lott named the shop - newsXpress Brassall in Ipswich - and an anonymous grandmother came forward a week later.
Every figure and quotation above comes from these.
Last verified: 2026-09-13