{"id":252351,"date":"2026-04-16T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:07:10","slug":"fort-worth-resident-wins-2-million-prize-on-powerball-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252351\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth resident wins $2 million prize on Powerball ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fort Worth resident claimed a $2 million Powerball prize in the game\u2019s April 6 drawing, according to the Texas Lottery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The player, who chose to remain anonymous, purchased the winning ticket at QuikTrip at 3436 N. Tarrant Parkway, in Fort Worth, lottery officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winning ticket, with player-chosen numbers and power play, matched all five of the white ball numbers drawn (7-24-37-42-57) but not the red Powerball number (5). The Power Play number was 2 with an additional win of $8 on the same ticket, according to lottery officials<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">QuikTrip may be eligible for a $10,000 bonus under the Texas Lottery\u2019s retailer bonus program for selling the winning ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Powerball drawings are broadcast on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:12 p.m. CT and can be viewed online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Players can win the grand prize by matching five white numbers from a field of 69, and one red Powerball number from a field of 26. Players who choose Power Play for $1 more per ticket can multiply their non-grand prize winnings by two, three, four, five or 10 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:news alerts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;news alerts&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth resident claimed a $2 million Powerball prize in the game\u2019s April 6 drawing, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,95450,6281,95449,66217,3823,4391],"class_list":{"0":"post-252351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-lottery-officials","12":"tag-powerball","13":"tag-powerball-number","14":"tag-quiktrip","15":"tag-texas-lottery","16":"tag-ticket"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}