Did you buy a Powerball ticket for Wednesday night’s drawing? Check your numbers, because there were two $1 million tickets sold in Georgia and a few worth $50,000.
No one scored the jackpot though, which will climb to an estimated $1.7 billion for Saturday night’s drawing, making it the third largest since the game’s 1992 inception. The cash value is about $770 million before taxes.
The numbers to match for Wednesday’s drawing are 3, 16, 29, 61, 69 with a Powerball of 22.
The two $1 million-winning tickets sold in the Peach State were purchased at Pharr Food & Gas at 345 Pharr Road NE in Atlanta and at Commerce Tobacco Outlet at 407 S. Elm St. in Commerce, according to the Georgia Lottery.
Other $1 million winners, who matched all five white balls, bought their tickets in California, where two were sold; Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Also in Georgia, six tickets matched four white balls and the Powerball for a $50,000 windfall. One of those tickets was purchased by a Valdosta resident using the Georgia Lottery mobile app. The others were sold at:
- C-Mart at 3403 Mike Padgett Highway in Augusta.
- Pinehurst Gas N Go Travel Center at 824 Hawkinsville Road in Pinehurst.
- 20’s Pub & Subs at 3076 Riverside Drive in Macon.
- Shell Food Mart at 106 Walnut Ave. in Leesburg.
- Food Mart at 3385 Airport Road in Dalton.
Another winner included the Power Play, bumping that person’s prize to $100,000. That ticket was purchased by a Columbus resident using the mobile app.
In total, more than 6.3 million tickets won at least some cash prizes in Wednesday’s drawing, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.
Saturday’s drawing will be the 42nd since May 31, when someone last hit the jackpot in California. That will set a record for the most consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner. The previous record was a 41-draw streak that ended with a $1.3 billion win in Oregon last year.
Overall, the odds of winning any prize are 1 in 25. But to claim the jackpot, those odds are astronomically slim at 1 in 292.2 million.
Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m., just before the nightly broadcast of Channel 2 Action News.
Top 10 Powerball jackpots
- $2.04 billion on Nov. 7, 2022, in California
- $1.765 billion on Oct. 11, 2023, in California
- $1.70 billion (estimated) for Saturday’s drawing
- $1.586 billion on Jan. 13, 2016, in California, Florida and Tennessee
- $1.326 billion on April 6, 2024, in Oregon
- $1.08 billion on July 19, 2023, in California
- $842.4 million on Jan. 1, 2024, in Michigan
- 768.4 million on March 27, 2019, in Wisconsin
- $758.7 million on Aug. 23, 2017, in Massachusetts
- $754.6 million on Feb. 6, 2023, in Washington
Source: Powerball
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