Wisconsin
On nationwide Powerball’s 30th anniversary, Wisconsin ranks fourth in winners
State Powerball patrons have toted up 19 jackpot wins since first ticket offered on April 19, 1992
MADISON (WKBT) — Powerball has racked up a good document in Wisconsin, which has logged 19 jackpot wins because the first ticket was offered 30 years in the past Tuesday.
That ranks the Badger State fourth on Powerball’s all-time jackpot checklist. An Oneida couple grew to become the newest Wisconsin Powerball jackpot winners on Jan. 5. They cut up a $632.6 million jackpot with one other winner from California.
Powerball ticket gross sales started nationwide and in Wisconsin on April 19, 1992, for the sport’s first drawing three days later. Along with creating 1.7 billion prize winners in the course of the previous three many years, the sport has generated greater than $27 billion to fund important public companies and applications throughout the nation.
Powerball has produced among the greatest wins in lottery historical past, together with the world document $1.586 billion jackpot set in January 2016. Different notable snapshots from the previous 30 years embrace:
- Jackpot-winning tickets: 393
- $2 million-winning tickets: 470
- $1 million-winning tickets: 2,424
- General prize-winning tickets: 1.75 billion
- Complete jackpot prizes paid: $25 billion
- Complete lower-tier money prizes: $25 billion
In August 2021, Powerball launched a brand new Monday drawing, which expanded the weekly lineup of Powerball drawings to a few nights every week: Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Powerball tickets are $2 a play. The percentages of profitable a Powerball Jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. Tickets are offered in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Greater than half of all proceeds from the sale of a Powerball ticket stay within the jurisdiction the place the ticket was offered.
The Wisconsin Lottery enriches communities statewide by giving again 93 p.c of its income to winners, retailers and Wisconsin owners, in line with Lottery officers.
Since 1988, the Wisconsin Lottery has generated greater than $17 billion in complete income, with greater than $9.7 billion in prizes paid and greater than $5.1 billion in funding for property tax credit to eligible Wisconsin owners.
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