Powerball: Winners of $80m jackpot reveal how they’ll spend their slice of the fortune

Two of four winners who will each take home a slice of this week’s massive $80m Powerball jackpot have revealed how they plan to spend their monster windfalls.

While the hunt is now on to identify the other two jackpot winners, a Queensland woman in her 20s has revealed she was in the shower and initially missed several calls from The Lott officials alerting her to her $20m payday.

The shocked young woman from Woolloongabba said she wasn’t a regular player but had bought the winning Powerhit entry on a whim when she saw the size of the jackpot.

“This is just a one-off. I saw it was an $80 million draw, and I just picked all my lucky numbers, such as my family’s birthdays,” she said.

“It’s crazy! I don’t know what to say. It’s insane.

“I’ve just gotten out of the shower and saw I had some missed calls. I thought, ‘What the hell?’.

“I’m still shaking. I can buy my own house. Travel. I’m just speechless.

“This is life-changing!”

And, the Woolloongabba women’s good fortune didn’t just end with the $20 million win. She also scored her division two 19 times, meaning she will get a total prize of $20,565,178.75.

A woman from the small Victorian town of Mooroopna who plays the same numbers every week was also a big winner.

She screamed when she got the call alerting her to the fact that she had become a multi-millionaire.

As her family celebrated in the background, the woman told The Lott officials she had been saying all day she hoped she would win.

“Oh my god. I’m in shock, she said.

“I can retire! And go on a holiday. I’m shaking. I can’t stop.

“I definitely won’t be able to sleep tonight!”

The identities of two of the four winners remains a mystery with both ticketholders, a second from Victoria and one in Western Australia, unregistered and yet to come forward.

The Victorian ticket was sold at the East Brighton Newsagency and people who bought their tickets there have been urged to check them.

The newsagency’s owner, Sajjad Sadeghi Goorbandi said it was the retailer’s first division one winning ticket since he took over two years ago.

“I can’t believe it! I was having a bad day, but this completely flipped it on its head!” he said.

The winning numbers in Powerball draw 1529 on Thursday were 9, 22, 23, 3, 13, 28 and 32. The Powerball number was 5.

It is the first time in more than 10 years of Powerball that four winning entries will share the division one jackpot.

Thursday’s Powerball was the second-largest jackpot this year.

The current top is the $100m drawn on June 12, although the sole winner of that prize is yet to come forward after 12 weeks.

The last time an $80m Powerball jackpot was won, it was split between two players who each took home $40m.