Giant lotto jackpot waiting for next winner

There's a giant lotto payday up for grabs next week with the Powerball jackpot reaching a towering $80 million.

There were no division one winners overnight, leaving any eager lotto players another week to get their hands on a hopefully-winning ticket.

The $80 million is the biggest Australian lottery jackpot to be offered so far in 2021 and the first time the game has hit this amount since July 2020.

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The Lott spokesperson Lauren Cooney said the last $80 million Powerball jackpot was snagged by a Victorian couple who took out the entire division one prize pool.

"It took the Dromana couple four days to check their ticket and discover they were the mystery multi-millionaires we'd been searching for," she said.

"It was the biggest lottery prize to ever land in Victoria and the couple said it gave them an enormous sense of freedom and peace of mind."

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Ms Cooney said they expected one in four Australian adults to have an entry in next week's lotto.

"If you want to find out immediately if you're a division one winner, register your entry so we can give you a call straight after the draw to break that life-changing news," she said.