<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>327379</docID> <postdate>2024-08-23 08:47:32</postdate> <headline>Mystery winner takes entire $100m Powerball prize</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-327326" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240118001890477758-original-resized.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="628" /></p> <caption>The Lott is waiting to hear from the unregistered entrant who bought the winning Powerball ticket. (Toby Zerna/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <p><strong>A Queensland Powerball player has 100 million reasons to check their ticket to see if they are one of the biggest lottery winners in Australian history.</strong></p> <p>The Lott is waiting to hear from the mystery entrant who bought an unregistered winning ticket for Thursday night's jackpot at an outlet on Brisbane's north side.</p> <p>The Lott is urging all Brisbane residents and visitors to check their tickets and make contact to claim their $100 million prize.</p> <p>"Someone has become an overnight multimillionaire but possibly doesn't know it yet. We can't wait for them to discover this winning news," spokeswoman Anna Hobdell said.</p> <p>The person who claims division one of draw 1475 has become the equal third-biggest lottery winner in Australian history.</p> <p>The winning numbers were 16, 24, 11, 4, 10, 18 and 23, with Powerball number 6.</p> <p>There were also 3,389,212 wins across divisions two to nine who collectively took home $67,789,677.20, along with 10 division two winners who each scored $188,606.60.</p> <p>The Lott expected up to half of the Australian adult population to enter the draw for Powerball's biggest win of 2024.</p> <p>Thursday's winner is only the sixth in Australia to know what it's like to win a lottery prize of $100 million or more.</p> <p>The odds of getting all seven numbers and the Powerball correct is one in 134,490,400, according to Gambler's Help and The Lott.</p> </body>