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CHECK YOUR TICKETS: Million-dollar Powerball winner sold in Indiana
Whereas the $473.1 million Powerball jackpot was received by somebody in Arizona, the Hoosier Lottery says a million-dollar winner was bought in Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS — Somebody in Indiana is holding onto a million-dollar Powerball ticket.
The Hoosier Lottery studies a Powerball ticket that matched all 5 white balls was bought someplace within the state for Wednesday’s $473.1 million drawing. It was not instantly identified the place the ticket was bought.
(NOTE: The video within the participant above is from a earlier 13News story on an error with Hoosier Lottery tickets.)
The successful ticket is value 1,000,000 {dollars} earlier than taxes. Whoever purchased the ticket didn’t pay additional for the Energy Play choice, which might have doubled the prize quantity.
One other ticket bought in Indiana matched 4 out of 5 numbers, plus the Powerball, for a $50,000 prize. In all, the Hoosier Lottery reported 18,503 tickets bought within the state for Wednesday’s drawing received not less than $4.
In accordance with the Powerball web site, a successful jackpot ticket matching all 5 numbers plus the Powerball was bought in Arizona. The proprietor of that ticket will acquire almost a half-million {dollars} earlier than taxes.
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The successful numbers within the April 27 drawing have been 11-36-61-62-68. The Powerball was 4 and the Energy Play multiplier was 2x.
Along with the million-dollar winner in Indiana, the Hoosier Lottery reported a further $132,452 was received by tickets bought within the state for Wednesday’s drawing.
Wednesday’s winner marks the third time this yr a successful jackpot ticket has been bought within the Powerball drawing. Two tickets bought in California and Wisconsin shared $632.6 million in January and one ticket in Connecticut received $185.3 million.
The general odds of successful any Powerball prize are 1 in 24.9. The chances of successful the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Did anybody win the $473 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday?
Powerball is performed in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Indiana has bought 39 jackpot-winning tickets in Powerball’s 30-year historical past, essentially the most of any state.
Drawings are held on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The jackpot for Saturday’s drawing resets to $20 million.