{"id":321788,"date":"2026-08-15T01:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321788\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:54:48","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-card-store-sells-three-50000-powerball-tickets-in-same-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321788\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Card Store Sells Three 50000 Powerball Tickets In Same Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">You might\u2019ve won big in Brooklyn if you purchased a Powerball ticket in Homecrest. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Hallmark store located at 1619 Avenue U sold three $50,000 tickets for Wednesday\u2019s drawing. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">While the $1 billion jackpot was sold in Illinois, the Brooklyn card shop is having its share of success. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe sell the good ticket here,\u201d said Jitendra Patel, the store\u2019s owner. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Patel said the store has a history of hitting big, including another $50,000 Powerball winner in 2017 and a $5 million scratch-off winner in 2013. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe sell too many winners here, so let\u2019s bring the jackpot here,\u201d said Patel. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He told News 12 on Friday that they\u2019re already seeing more customers. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI\u2019m a believer in luck,\u201d said Ralph, a customer. \u201cWhen it\u2019s your time, it\u2019s your time.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cNow that I know that information, I think it\u2019s actually a good chance for me to win something,\u201d said Ekaterina, another customer. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York State Gaming Commission said, as of Friday, the winners had not claimed their prize, but it is not uncommon for one person to purchase multiple tickets with the same numbers. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The winning numbers from the Aug. 12 drawing were 4, 26, 66, 67, 69, with the Powerball 9 and a 2x multiplier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might\u2019ve won big in Brooklyn if you purchased a Powerball ticket in Homecrest. The Hallmark store located&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-321788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}