Two North Texans win big prizes in Wednesday night’s Powerball, lottery says

Two North Texas residents won $200,000 and $50,000 third-tier Powerball prizes in Wednesday evening’s drawing, a Texas Lottery official said.

A Powerball player in Irving won $200,000, according to the Texas Lottery. The resident bought the ticket at 24 Seven Food Mart, located at 401 E. Pioneer Drive.

Another Texas resident bought a $50,000 winning ticket at a Clifford Food Mart in Fort Worth, located at 9308 Clifford St.

How to play Powerball

On one ticket, there are five white balls and one red Powerball, the Powerball website states. Players can either choose their own numbers or allow the lottery terminal to select numbers for them.

Players select five numbers between one and 69 for the white balls and one number between 1 and 26 for the red Powerball, the website states.

Powerball tickets cost $2, and an additional Power Play ticket costs $1, according to the website for the game.

There are nine ways to win a prize in Powerball, according to the website. Players can win the jackpot by matching all white balls in any order and the red Powerball with the numbers in the drawing. The jackpot grows until it is claimed.

Power Play tickets multiply prizes by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 times.

The odds of winning any prize in Powerball are 1 in 24.87, according to the game’s website. The odds of winning the jackpot without Power Play multipliers are 1 in 292,201,338.

Powerball drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be watched online.

The next Powerball drawing is Saturday, Aug. 2. The estimated jackpot is $410M.