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Powerball jackpot surges to $317M

Pennsylvania Lottery retailers are reporting brisk ticket sales for tonight’s $317 million Powerball® drawing, featuring the game’s largest jackpot offering in ...
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Pennsylvania Lottery retailers are reporting brisk ticket sales for tonight’s $317 million Powerball® drawing, featuring the game’s largest jackpot offering in nearly a year. The cash prize is worth $220.6 million.

 

The current jackpot is the highest it has been since it was hit on Feb. 19, 2014, when one ticket sold in California won $425.3 million. Numerous jackpots of lesser amounts have been won since then.

 

If won tonight, the prize would rank as the 11th-largest Powerball jackpot. The game’s record jackpot is a $590.5 million prize won in Florida in May 2013.

 

In Pennsylvania, tickets are sold until 9:59 p.m. on drawing nights. The drawing takes place at 10:59 p.m. Players are advised purchase their tickets early to avoid any last-minute rush and to always play responsibly.

 

A few Powerball facts of interest:

 

  • Powerball and Powerball with Power Play tickets were selling at a rate of about 1,900 tickets per-minute as of noon today, statewide.

 

  • Also as of noon today, the Pennsylvania Lottery had sold nearly $47 million in Powerball and Powerball with Power Play tickets since the current jackpot run began in early December. That translates into over $14 million in funding for benefits to older Pennsylvanians just from this jackpot run.

 

  • Ticket sales have been rising all week. Powerball sales were approximately $531,000 on Sunday, $683,000 on Monday and $1.45 million on Tuesday.

 

  • Since this jackpot run started, Powerball players in Pennsylvania have won over $8.7 million in cash prizes, including four $1 million prizes (from the Dec. 6, Dec. 17 and Jan. 17 drawings).

 

  • The Pennsylvania Lottery has sold 17 jackpot-winning tickets since joining the multi-state game in 2002.

 

  • The most recent jackpot-winning Powerball ticket sold in Pennsylvania was for the June 22, 2013, drawing, and was worth $131.5 million. A Delaware County woman claimed the $77.4 million cash prize about a month later.

 

  • The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 175,223,510.

 

  • If you hold the winning ticket, you should immediately sign the back of the ticket and put it in a safe place. Then, contact the Lottery at 717-702-8146 during business hours to arrange to bring the ticket to Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County, for validation.

 

For the convenience of players who wish to pool their ticket purchases with friends, coworkers or family members, Pool Play forms are available at palottery.com.

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