In a wild night of Powerball, 91 tickets win at least $1 million
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In a wild night for Powerball, 91 tickets won at least $1 million, including two tickets that won the jackpot in the Wednesday, April 29 drawing, according to the Powerball website.
The winning numbers were 3, 19, 35, 51, 67 and Powerball 15. The multiplier was 2x.
In numerical order, all the white balls increase by 16.
The estimated jackpot was $143.4 million ($65.2 million cash prize).
The jackpot was won by two tickets sold in Indiana and Kansas.
Twenty-seven tickets matched the five white balls and had the Power Play option to win $2 million each. They were sold in:
- Arkansas: 1
- Illinois: 1
- Indiana: 5
- Kansas: 1
- Louisiana: 5
- Mississippi: 1
- New Jersey: 4
- Oregon: 3
- Pennsylvania : 2
- Rhode Island: 1
- South Carolina: 1
- Wisconsin: 2
Sixty-two tickets matched the five white balls to win $1 million each. They were sold in:
- Arkansas: 1
- Arizona: 1
- California: 1
- Georgia: 1
- Illinois: 3
- Indiana: 14
- Kansas: 5
- Kentucky: 1
- Louisiana: 6
- Michigan: 1
- Minnesota: 1
- Missouri: 1
- Nebraska: 2
- New Jersey: 14
- Oregon: 1
- Pennsylvania: 5
- Wisconsin: 4
The odds of matching the five white balls is 1 in 11,688,053.52, according to the Powerball website.
The Michigan ticket that won $1 million was purchased online to a player registered to Ortonville, according to the Michigan Lottery.
Some are calling Wednesday’s Powerball drawing the luckiest ever.
A news release announcing where jackpot-winning tickets were sold is usually posted to the Powerball website the morning after a drawing. However, a news release related to the Wednesday drawing winners had not been posted as of 1 p.m. Thursday, April 30.
Messages to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which facilitates Powerball, were not immediately returned.
Powerball also had a lot of high-tier winners in the Saturday, Sept. 6 drawing when two tickets won the jackpot, two won $2 million and 18 won $1 million.
Powerball prizes must be claimed within one year from the date of the drawing.
Powerball jackpot winners may choose to receive their prize as an annuity, paid in 30 graduated payments over 29 years, or a lump-sum payment. Both advertised prize options are prior to federal and jurisdictional taxes, according to the Powerball website.
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