Two lucky New York lottery players are waking up millionaires after Wednesday night’s historic Powerball drawing, though the $1.817 billion jackpot went to a single ticket sold in Arkansas.
The winning tickets in New York were sold at Smiley’s Stop N Shop in Sidney, Delaware County, and at Ultra Fuel in Lindenhurst, Suffolk County. Each ticket matched all five white balls to win $1 million.
The winning numbers in the Wednesday, Dec. 24, drawing were white balls 4, 25, 31, 52, 59 and red Powerball 19. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
New York also had eight tickets winning $50,000, 252 tickets winning $100 and thousands of smaller prizes.
The Arkansas jackpot winner becomes the second-largest lottery winner in U.S. history. The prize carries a cash option of $834.9 million. Both options are before taxes.
The winner can choose between an annuitized prize of $1.817 billion or a lump sum payment of $834.9 million. The annuity option provides one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5 percent each year.
Nationwide, eight tickets matched all five white balls to win at least $1 million. The winning Match 5 tickets were sold in California, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Wednesday’s drawing was the 47th in the jackpot run, a game record for the most drawings in a jackpot cycle. The jackpot was previously won on Sept. 6 by two tickets in Missouri and Texas that split a $1.787 billion prize.
This marks the second time a Powerball jackpot has been won by a ticket sold in Arkansas. The first was in 2010.
For the next drawing on Saturday night, the Powerball jackpot resets to $20 million.
Powerball tickets are $2 per play and 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.
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