Lotterywest has two hot tips for players hoping for a multi-million dollar windfall on Thursday night’s $80 million Powerball: Powerpik tickets and syndicates.
“We’ve crunched the numbers for WA Division One winners for the past 12 months and we found that almost half the winnings went to syndicates, whether formal ones, or informal syndicates among friends, families and work colleagues,” Lotterywest spokesperson Jennie Fitzhardinge said.
"Of the $89 million won on Division One – across all Lotto games – in the past 12 months, $40.5 million, or just under half the total prize money was won by syndicates.
“With Powerball at an incredible $80 million, there is no doubt that is more than enough to go around!
“The second hot tip is to spend that pooled money on Powerpik entries. Powerpik gives you the Powerball, greatly improving the odds.”
Ticket types, “hot” numbers and suburbs
A great way to play Powerball is with a Powerpik ticket. It gives you the winning Powerball number, which increases your chances of winning since you need the Powerball number to win Division One and five of the other nine divisions.
- We expect to sell more than half a million tickets in this draw, which equates to 1 in 4 Western Australians playing.
- Between July 2018 to June 2019, the most frequent winning numbers from Barrel A were:
- 17 (drawn 20 times)
- 2, 11, 20, 29 (drawn 14 times each) and
- 4, 7 and 22 (drawn 13 times each).
- Most frequent winning numbers picked from Barrel B (the Powerball) are 19 (drawn 6 times), 3 (drawn 5 times) followed by 7, 13 and 20 (drawn 4 times each)
- A Powerpik 7 is $24.
- Instore sales: 77% are Slikpiks, 22% of people choose their own numbers, about 3.5% of tickets are syndicates; 25% are system tickets (these can be Slikpiks or payslips).
- In 2018-19, the most popular tickets were Slikpik 12, Slikpik 18, Powerpik 7 followed by System 8 and Slikpik 25.
Top 10 Suburbs and Towns
Perth, Morley, Cloverdale, Mandurah, Bunbury, Midland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Rockingham, Albany
Records
- If WA produces one $80 million winner it would be a record for the state.
- The biggest win in WA Lotto history was when a Perth family took out the entire $50 million on Powerball in July 2015.
- The Australian record for an individual winner is $107 million in January this year. It was won on Powerball by a Sydney woman.
- 2nd highest - $70 million, Jan 2016 to a Queensland winner.
- 3rd highest - $50 million to a WA winner in July 2015 and Canberra winner in May 2015.
- The highest Powerball jackpot was $110 million in July, it was split three ways ($36.7 million) to winners in Victoria, NSW and SA.
- On the day of draw 4pm-5pm is the busiest hour for purchasing tickets, it will peak at around 673 tickets sold a minute.
Community
- In 2018-19 financial year, Powerball raised around $84 million for the WA community
- Between July 2007 - June 2019, Powerball raised about $536 million for the WA community.
- This week will see an estimated $3.5 million raised for the WA community.
If you would like specific facts and stats relating to your region or audience, please contact: Senior Public Relations Officers Jennie Fitzhardinge or Hermione Coleman on
T: 9488 6227 M:0438 996 884 E: publicrelations@lotterywest.wa.gov.au