How to spend $18m Lotto win

Ever dreamed of flying by helicopter to your luxury waterfront home? Wednesday’s $18 million Lotto Powerball draw could be your chance — if a slim one.

The jackpot has rolled over after Powerball wasn’t struck on Saturday.

If won, Wednesday’s prize will be the biggest since January, when a lucky Taranaki resident started the year with an extra $22.3m

Athena Wang of Sotheby’s International Realty says a lucky winner this week could splash out on a $14m property in Martins Bay, Auckland.

Wang describes the 5.6ha cliff-top estate as being “just a little bit luxury” with the city’s largest swimming pool, coastal views from every room. a private helipad and a nine-car garage.

If the winner was feeling less lavish, they might prefer to buy 22 more reasonably priced houses at Auckland’s median of $800,000.

Or $18m would buy you almost 70 standard houses in South Waikato, where the median price is $266,000.

When Reddit users were asked how they would spend $20m, one said they would buy a further $20m worth of Lotto tickets.

Another said he’d knock down the shop across from his work and open a pub, so he could watch his friends work while he got drunk every day.

Saturday’s first division win was split between six players in Whanga¯ rei, Auckland, Mt Maunganui, Masterton, Wellington, and Blenheim, each winning $166,667.

Powerball has been won 12 times this year, with last month’s winning ticket being sold in Auckland.

Each line on a ticket gives you a one-in-38 million chance of winning.