A very lucky Powerball player in Pennsylvania has won the multistate lottery’s $212 million jackpot prize, ending a streak of 20 consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner.
Powerball’s winning numbers for its Monday, August 12, 2024 drawing were 9, 22, 57, 67, 68, and the red Powerball 14. The Power Play multiplier was 3X.
There were also 4 tickets that won $50,000 prizes, 2 tickets won $150,000 prizes, and 4 ticket (California) got $5,903.
Nationwide, the Powerball drawing produced more than 346,900 winning tickets, with players winning lower-tier cash prizes worth a combined $2.12 million.
These are the prize payouts for all states that play Powerball combined, along with the prize values for each prize tier, with and without the “Power Play” on Mon, Aug 12, 2024:
| Match | Winners | Prize | Power Play Winners | Power Play Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 1 | 212,000,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 0 | 1,000,000 USD | 0 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 8 | 50,000 USD | 2 | 150,000 USD |
| O O O O | 161 | 100 USD | 72 | 300 USD |
| O O O | O | 354 | 100 USD | 126 | 300 USD |
| O O O | 9,881 | 7 USD | 3,447 | 21 USD |
| O O | O | 8,577 | 7 USD | 3,016 | 21 USD |
| O | O | 68,671 | 4 USD | 24,500 | 12 USD |
| | O | 168,083 | 4 USD | 60,041 | 12 USD |
The winner can choose either the total jackpot paid out in yearly increments or a $105.5 million, one-time lump sum before taxes.
Before Monday’s win, there had been 20 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner since Powerball’s Jul. 3, 2024 drawing, when least one lucky ticket matched all six numbers to win a grand prize worth $138 million.
Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington D.C, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of a ticket hitting the jackpot are 292,201,338 to 1. Players have roughly a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to win at least $1 million.
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Since we just had a winning ticket hit the jackpot, the top prize now returns to its starting point of $20 million for the next Powerball drawing on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 10:59 p.m. That prize carries a cash option worth $10 million.
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