Powerball (Australia) · Australia · 17 January 2019
She bought a 12-game marked entry (her own numbers, not a QuickPick) online at thelott.com ahead of Powerball draw 1183. The Lott described her as a regular player.
Advertised prize
A$107,575,649
Ticket
Own numbers
Outcome
Stayed private
Took the money, kept their life, said little since.
Powerball draw 1183 on Thursday 17 January 2019 was advertised at A$100 million, but heavy ticket sales pushed the division one prize to A$107,575,649.08, and a single entry took the lot. The winner was a healthcare professional in her 40s from inner-city Sydney, a regular player who had bought a 12-game marked entry online at thelott.com. When The Lott called, she assumed the figure was A$107,000 and asked whether the call was a trick. Told the real amount, she said: "Wait - are you telling me I've won $107 million?!" She declined to be named. The prize was the largest ever won by a single Australian lottery entry at that point, beating the A$70 million taken by Hervey Bay grandparents in 2016. She said she would not retire, telling reporters she was "so passionate about my job", and that she planned to share the money with family, donate to a favourite charity and travel by caravan. Twenty division two entries in the same draw won A$94,792.90 each. She said she would celebrate with "a cheap glass of chardonnay" and turned up to work the next day.
In a June 2021 interview published by The Lott she said she and her husband were both still working, that they had bought a family home "for generations to come", and that they were donating to community causes. Her A$107.58 million remained the largest individual Australian lottery prize until May 2024, when a South Australian man won A$150 million.
One detail worth keeping
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.
Two anonymous winners: a Singleton (NSW) couple and a Hawthorne (Brisbane) woman
Stayed privatePowerball (Australia) · Australia · 2024
A$200,000,000
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.
Two anonymous winners: a Singleton (NSW) couple and a Hawthorne (Brisbane) woman
Stayed privatePowerball (Australia) · Australia · 2024
A$200,000,000
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.
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.
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Last verified: 2026-09-13