{"id":268895,"date":"2026-08-20T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268895\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:30:08","slug":"pennsylvania-lottery-player-wins-1-63-million-match-6-lotto-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268895\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Lottery player wins $1.63 million Match 6 Lotto jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pennsylvania Lottery player recently won a $1.63 million jackpot by purchasing a Match 6 Lotto ticket online.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket correctly matched all six winning numbers, 1, 17, 22, 26, 31 and 41, in the Aug. 19 drawing, according to a news release provided by the Pennsylvania Lottery. The jackpot prize is worth $1,630,000 before applicable withholding.<\/p>\n<p>The winner has not yet been identified. Lottery winners are not known until prizes are claimed and tickets are validated.<\/p>\n<p>The winner has one year from the drawing date to claim the prize. Online winnings will automatically appear in the player&#8217;s account after the claim has been processed.<\/p>\n<p>More than 54,600 other Match 6 Lotto tickets also won prizes in Wednesday&#8217;s drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Match 6 Lotto tickets cost $2 and can be purchased online or at Pennsylvania Lottery retailers. Players select six numbers from 1 to 49, or have numbers randomly selected by a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Match 6 is drawn every evening, and players can purchase up to 26 draws in advance. Lottery officials advise players to check every ticket after each drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Since ticket sales began in 1972, the Pennsylvania Lottery has contributed more than $37.2 billion to programs benefiting older Pennsylvanians, including transportation services, prescription assistance, senior centers and meal programs.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania Lottery player recently won a $1.63 million jackpot by purchasing a Match 6 Lotto ticket online.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1408,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-268895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-lottery","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}