A very lucky Powerball player in Georgia has won the multistate lottery’s $478 million jackpot prize, ending a streak of 28 consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner.
The winning numbers were 2 – 15 – 27 – 29 – 39. The Powerball was 20, and the Power Play was 2X.
Other top-winning tickets in the Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Powerball drawing include 2 tickets (Pennsylvania, Texas) that matched all five white balls to win $1,000,000 prizes.
There were also 9 tickets that won $50,000 prizes, 4 tickets won $100,000 prizes, and 4 tickets won $11,633 (California).
Nationwide, the Powerball drawing produced more than 616,200 winning tickets, with players winning lower-tier cash prizes worth a combined $5.26 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 Wed, Oct 23, 2024:
| Match | Winners | Prize | Power Play Winners | Power Play Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 1 | 478,000,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 2 | 1,000,000 USD | 0 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 13 | 50,000 USD | 4 | 100,000 USD |
| O O O O | 418 | 100 USD | 128 | 200 USD |
| O O O | O | 847 | 100 USD | 242 | 200 USD |
| O O O | 23,501 | 7 USD | 7,313 | 14 USD |
| O O | O | 17,232 | 7 USD | 5,219 | 14 USD |
| O | O | 129,183 | 4 USD | 38,823 | 8 USD |
| | O | 303,296 | 4 USD | 89,932 | 8 USD |
The winner will get to pick either a lump sum payment of $230.5 million or an annuity for the $478 million. Both figures are before taxes.
The last time someone had won the Powerball jackpot was Aug. 19, 2024 for a top prize of nearly $44 million. Since then, no one had won the grand prize.
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.
If you want to try your luck, Powerball would be a great choice with a lots of interesting huge prizes. With regulations allowing both foreigners to buy lottery tickets and win prizes, the Powerball lottery attracts many players worldwide to buy tickets and try their luck through best online lottery messenger services like TheLotter.
The jackpot for Saturday’s drawing rolls back to $20 million with a cash option of $9.6 million.
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