A Louisiana Lotto Ticket is Worth $2.7 Million This Morning

Louisiana lottery gamers who play the in-state sport Lotto must verify their tickets this morning as a result of a ticket bought for Wednesday’s Lotto sport is a winner to the tune of $2.755 million. Now you is likely to be considering, what are the chances of that ticket belonging to me? Properly, in the event you performed Lotto the Louisiana Lottery places these odds at 1 in 5,245,786 in the event you actually wished to know.

However imagine it or not, on Wednesday drawing a Louisiana bought ticket beat these odds and this morning the holder of that ticket is now a millionaire two instances over. The Lotto sport is without doubt one of the Louisiana Lottery’s “flagship” video games. Gamers select six numbers between 1 and 42 and within the case of the successful ticket from Wednesday, they matched all six numbers that had been drawn.

Really, big-money payouts have change into fairly the norm for lottery gamers within the state. Within the Lottery’s June winnings report we discovered that the Louisiana Lottery Company paid out $7.4 million {dollars} to winners in its draw-style video games. That determine consists of successful quantities from Simple 5, Lotto, Choose 3, Powerball, and Mega Tens of millions.

So far as scratch-off video games go, the quantity gamers received is greater than double. That is proper scratch-off ticket winners pocketed greater than $14.7 million in winnings for the month of June. And, there have been $2.1 million {dollars} in different prizes that had been awarded to scratch-off winners as properly.

However, these figures are for June, that is July and also you wish to know extra about that $2.7 million greenback Lotto prize, proper?

Lottery officers say that ticket was bought in Laplace on the Huge River Meals and Gas #7 on West Airline Freeway. Previous to Wednesday’s massive win, the latest successful ticket for the Lotto sport occurred in Prairieville means again in February.

If you wish to verify your Lotto ticket the numbers drawn for July 13, 2022, had been:

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By the way, the Lottery web site is displaying there are $120,000 in unclaimed massive cash prizes nonetheless on the books. These massive wins embrace two Mega Tens of millions tickets value $10,000 every and two Powerball winners value $50,000 every.  You’ll be able to verify the successful numbers on these “unclaimed prizes” proper right here.

By the way in which, tonight’s Mega Tens of millions Jackpot of $480 million (estimated) will likely be that sport’s 18th largest jackpot whether it is received tonight. The drawing is scheduled for 9:59 Louisiana time and by rule, ticket gross sales should stop not less than one hour earlier than the drawing happens.

Saturday’s Powerball will likely be an estimated $82 million {dollars}. There was a jackpot winner within the Powerball sport slightly over two weeks in the past when a single ticket bought in Vermont claimed the highest prize of over $366 million.

Bear in mind, in the event you select to play lottery video games spend solely what you possibly can afford to lose. Whereas we like to let you know the tales of the Huge Wins in Louisiana, there are much more tickets bought for these video games that provide the participant little or no if any return on their funding.