LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Five people in Colorado are waking up with a big smile Thursday morning.
After a months-long winless streak, a lottery player in California won the Powerball jackpot worth more than $1 billion.
While Colorado did not get the big prize, there were five winners of more than $50,000 in Wednesday's drawing, the Colorado Lottery said.
Tickets worth $50,000 were sold in Castle Rock, Colorado Springs, Erie, Golden, and Pueblo.
Castle Rock
- Two $50,000 tickets = $100,000
- King Soopers
Colorado Springs
- Two $50,000 tickets = $100,000
- Loaf N Jug
Erie
- $50,000 ticket
- King Soopers Fuel Center
Golden
- $50,000 ticket
- Loaf N Jug
Pueblo
- $50,000 ticket
- Winners Corner
Wednesday's prize, which rose to $1.08 billion by drawing time, ranks as the game's third largest prize, only behind the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won last year and the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won in 2016. It's the sixth largest lottery win among all games.
Jackpot winners have the option to be paid out the full amount over 29 years, or choose the smaller cash option. The cash option for Wednesday's drawing was $558.1 million, before taxes.
The California Lottery said on Twitter that the winning ticket was sold in Los Angeles at Las Palmitas Mini Market.
The last time someone had won the Powerball jackpot was April 19 for a top prize of nearly $253 million. Since then, no one had won the grand prize.
What were the winning Powerball numbers for 7/19/23?
The winning numbers were 7-10-11-13-24, Powerball 24 and Power Play 2.
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
With the billion-dollar jackpot drawing significant interest, many players were just short of the grand prize, but matched the first five balls to win at least a million dollars. There were 36 $1 million-winning tickets and three $2 million-winning tickets:
Those million dollar winners are located in:
$1 Million Winners
- California (7)
- Connecticut
- Florida (4)
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Massachusetts (3)
- Maryland (2)
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey (2)
- New York (5)
- Ohio
- Texas (4)
- Wisconsin
- West Virginia
$2 Million Winners
- Florida
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
For the millions who didn't win the billion-dollar jackpot, there's still a chance at life-changing cash this week with Friday's Mega Millions jackpot of $720 million. The last Mega Millions jackpot was won on April 18. Powerball hadn't seen a grand prize winner since April 19.
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