The winning ticket in Wednesday, July 03, 2024 night’s $138 million Powerball drawing was sold in Ohio.
Wednesday’s winning numbers were 2, 26, 33, 55, 57 and red Powerball 22. The power play multiplier was 2X.
The huge draw also produced one $1,000,000 winner (Pennsylvania) and two $397,355 winners (California) who matched all five white balls but missed the red Powerball.
There were also 4 tickets nationwide that won $50,000 prizes, and 1 ticket that won $45,674 (California).
The total prize money of the smaller awards amounts to over $4.9 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, Jul 3, 2024:
| Match | Winners | Prize | Power Play Winners | Power Play Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 1 | 138,000,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 3 | 1,000,000 USD | 0 | 2,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 5 | 50,000 USD | 0 | 100,000 USD |
| O O O O | 174 | 100 USD | 51 | 200 USD |
| O O O | O | 440 | 100 USD | 162 | 200 USD |
| O O O | 11,808 | 7 USD | 4,355 | 14 USD |
| O O | O | 9,964 | 7 USD | 3,626 | 14 USD |
| O | O | 77,130 | 4 USD | 28,543 | 8 USD |
| | O | 183,759 | 4 USD | 68,630 | 8 USD |
The winner can choose between a 30-year annuitized prize of $138 million or a lump sum payment of $65.8 million. Both options are pretax estimates.
Before Wednesday’s win, there had been 10 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner since Powerball’s Jun. 10, 2024 drawing, when least one lucky ticket matched all six numbers to win a grand prize worth $221 million.
Powerball is offered in 44 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Players select five white numbers from (1 to 69) and one red ball (1 to 26).
To win the Powerball jackpot a player must match all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball number. The odds of picking the correct Powerball grand prize numbers are one in 292,201,338, which doesn’t change even if more players buy tickets when the jackpot is enormous.
You have a better chance of winning the Powerball jackpot if you let the computer select your numbers, according to lottery officials. About 75 percent of winning tickets over the years had numbers picked by a computer.
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The Powerball jackpot is now reset to $20 million.
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