Powerball player sipping coffee on porch realizes she won huge prize in AR
A woman was sitting on her porch drinking coffee when she found out she won a huge Powerball prize.
The Madison County woman was running errands when she stopped at a store in Huntsville and bought two Powerball tickets for the Oct. 13 drawing, according to an Oct. 22 news release from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.
After buying the tickets, she realized she was locked out of her car and had to call a friend to come help.
But the next morning, her luck turned around as she sat on her porch drinking coffee. She remembered the tickets she bought and decided to check the winning numbers.
“Oh, I’ll look and see,” she thought to herself, according to lottery officials.
She soon realized she had matched four out of the five winning numbers, plus the Powerball.
“I think I won $50,000,” she immediately told her husband. And she was right.
She hasn’t made plans on how she will spend it yet, but said she will continue playing the lottery.
The jackpot for the Oct. 22 Powerball drawing is $320 million.
What to know about Powerball
To score the jackpot in the Powerball, 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.
Huntsville is about a 175-mile drive northwest from Little Rock.
This story was originally published October 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM with the headline "Powerball player sipping coffee on porch realizes she won huge prize in AR."
