Somebody is a lot richer Tuesday morning. According to the lottery, a lucky player matched all six numbers to claim the Powerball jackpot of $214 million in Monday night’s drawing. The winning ticket was sold in Florida.
Here are the winning numbers selected for the Monday, May 6, 2024 drawing: 7 – 23 – 24 – 56 – 60 and Powerball 25. The Powerplay was 2x.
One $2,000,000 winner (Idaho) with the Power Play option.
There were also 5 tickets that won a $50,000 prize, 7 tickets that won $100,000 prizes, and 1 ticket (California) won $27,891.
The total prize money of the smaller awards amounts to over $4.11 million.
The winner can either accept $99.7 million in cash or can choose to receive the estimated $214 million, before taxes, in 29 annual payments.
The last time someone had won the Powerball jackpot was Apr. 6, 2024 for a top prize of nearly $1.3 billion. Since then, no one had won the grand prize.
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, May 6, 2024:
Match | Winners | Prize | Power Play Winners | Power Play Prize |
---|---|---|---|---|
O O O O O | O | 1 | 214,000,000 USD | X | X |
O O O O O | 0 | 1,000,000 USD | 1 | 2,000,000 USD |
O O O O | O | 6 | 50,000 USD | 7 | 100,000 USD |
O O O O | 206 | 100 USD | 79 | 200 USD |
O O O | O | 468 | 100 USD | 188 | 200 USD |
O O O | 12,850 | 7 USD | 4,630 | 14 USD |
O O | O | 10,224 | 7 USD | 3,670 | 14 USD |
O | O | 79,256 | 4 USD | 27,859 | 8 USD |
| O | 181,774 | 4 USD | 64,002 | 8 USD |
Powerball jackpot – one of the two most popular lotteries in the US Powerball and Mega Millions – was opened in 1988 with the name Lotto America. This game was renamed Powerball on April 19, 1992. The first Powerball lottery drawing was held on April 22, 1992. A long period of development, the Powerball has expanded to 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands in the US.
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The jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing rolls back to $20 million with a cash option of $9.3 million.
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