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Moment man mistakes wild $40m win for $40k

The PowerHit ticket added $800,000 in division-two and other prizes, lifting the total windfall to more than $40.8 million, officials said.

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A Powerball winner missed the initial phone call that would change his life forever – mistaking his $40 million jackpot for a much more modest prize.

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A man from the Castle Hill area of Sydney mistakenly thought he had only won the AU$40,000 Powerball jackpot, but it took him a while to realize that the actual prize was a whopping AU$40 million.

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7NEWS Australia broke the news in Australia on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
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