Powerball player wins $50,000 in North Texas. Where was the lucky ticket sold?
A North Texas Powerball player will take home $50,000 after matching four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball in the drawing on Saturday, June 7, lottery officials say.
The player was just one number away from the $44 million jackpot.
According to the Texas Lottery, the winning ticket was sold at a Chilly Mart in Grand Prairie, about 30 minutes away from Fort Worth.
More than 370,000 tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $1 million, lottery officials say.
According to the Powerball website, the winning numbers were 31, 36, 43, 48 and 62 with a Powerball of 25. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.
A player in Oregon won $1 million. Three players in Arizona, Massachusetts and Michigan also won $50,000 prizes in the Powerball drawing. The next drawing will be Monday night, June 9.
No one won the jackpot on Saturday. For Monday’s drawing, the estimated grand total of the Powerball jackpot is now $54 million with a cash value of $24.3 million.
The Powerball jackpot was last won May 31, when a California player scored the $204.5 million grand prize.
What to know about Powerball
To score a jackpot in the Powerball game, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.
The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online. Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
