Monday’s numbers: white balls 8, 23, 25, 40, 53 with red Powerball 5. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
According to Powerball, 10 tickets matched all five white balls to win $1 million prizes. The tickets were sold in California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey (2), New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
How to play
Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Players can also multiply non-jackpot prizes by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 times with the Power Play option for an additional $1 per play.
Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, making your chances far better to catch a foul ball or win an Olympic medal.
The next Powerball drawing, offering a lump sum option of $589 million, is scheduled for Wednesday night at 10:59 p.m. You can watch the drawing on Powerball.com or on YouTube.
‘People say this is where they win so this is where they keep coming back’
Bee-Gee’s Market in Kettering, which sold its first $1 million ticket in a historic October 2018 Mega Millions drawing, was fully prepared for a steady stream of customers that came through their doors Tuesday night.
“Lottery, for us, stays pretty brisk all the time, but when it gets like this it’s busier,” said Michael Sliger, owner of Bee-Gee’s. “We have seven terminals we keep running all the time and we have extra staff on hand to help with the crowd. The line goes very quickly.”
He also said there’s an added allure for lottery newbies when jackpots cross into eye-popping territory.
“Once it gets up to $500, $600 or $700 million — and definitely when people start seeing billion versus million — it brings people who don’t typically play,” Sliger said. “People have become a little jaded now. They’ll say they don’t want to play until the (jackpot) reaches $1 billion versus years ago when it was $20 million and they would be lined up out the door.”
Credit: JIM NOELKER
Credit: JIM NOELKER
With a longstanding reputation stretching beyond the Dayton region from nearby cities like Cincinnati and Columbus to states as close as Indiana and Kentucky and as far away as Alabama, Bee-Gee’s is proud to be a gathering spot for prizes of all sizes.
“We have had lots of winners and people have come from outside the state to play here,” Sliger said. “People say this is where they win so this is where they keep coming back. We try to satisfy the need when we can.”
He also said a $2 billion prize is possible for Saturday’s drawing.
“If nobody hits Wednesday, you’re looking at $1.7 or $1.8 billion for Saturday,” he said. “And once it gets that high, even more people that don’t typically play come in and, potentially, it could hit $2 billion for Saturday or Monday.”
Top 10 Powerball jackpots
- $2.04 billion – Nov. 7, 2022 – California
- $1.765 billion – Oct. 11, 2023 – California
- $1.586 billion – Jan. 13, 2016 – California, Florida, Tennessee
- $1.326 billion – April 6, 2024 – Oregon
- $1.3 billion – Sept. 3, 2025 – TBD
- $1.08 billion – July 19, 2023 – California
- $842.4 million – Jan. 1, 2024 – Michigan
- $768.4 million – March 27, 2019 – Wisconsin
- $758.7 million – Aug. 23, 2017 – Massachusetts
- $754.6 million – Feb. 6, 2023 – Washington
What can you buy with $1.3 billion?
According to Reader’s Digest, there are multiple things you could buy with $1 billion:
- 2,882 Ferraris
- The Miami Marlins baseball team
- A superyacht
- Multiple private islands
- A nine-bedroom palace in the south of France
For more information about Powerball, visit Powerball.com.
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