Powerball Jackpot Rolls to $360 Million; Ticket Worth $2 Million Sold in Pittsburgh
Middletown – Before the Powerball® jackpot rolled to a $360 million annuity value for the Saturday, Feb. 7, drawing, one Powerball ticket worth $2 million from the Wednesday, Feb. 4, drawing was sold at S & R Market, 4915 Second Ave., Pittsburgh.
The winning ticket correctly matched all five white balls drawn, 24-36-51-52-56, but not the red Powerball 22, and added Power Play®, which boosted the prize to $2 million, less 25 percent federal withholding. Without purchasing the $1 Power Play option, this winning ticket would have been worth $1 million.
The retailer will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling this winning ticket.
The prize must be claimed and the ticket validated before the winner can be identified. Pennsylvania Lottery Powerball winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes.
The Lottery encourages the holder of the winning ticket to sign the back of the ticket, call the Lottery at 717-702-8146 and file a claim at any of Lottery’s seven area offices or at Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County.
Claims may be filed Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at area offices and at headquarters from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
More than 96,700 other Pennsylvania Lottery Powerball tickets won prizes of varying amounts in the drawing, including 16,275 winners who bought the Power Play feature and multiplied their prize by two.
In the 2013-14 fiscal year, in addition to awarding nearly $230.2 million in prizes to winners across Allegheny County, the Pennsylvania Lottery contributed more than $129 million to programs serving the county’s older residents.
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday, Feb. 7, rolled to an annuity value of $360 million or a $250.5 million cash prize – this game’s highest jackpot 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 on Saturday, the prize would rank as the seventh-largest Powerball jackpot annuity prize. The game’s record jackpot is a $590.5 million prize won in Florida in May 2013.
Since the current jackpot run started in early December, Powerball players in Pennsylvania have won nearly $11.3 million in cash prizes, including four $1 million prizes (from the Dec. 6, Dec. 17 and Jan. 17 drawings) and the $2 million prize from the Feb. 4 drawing.
How to play Powerball: Players pay $2 and select five white balls from the first set of 59 numbers plus a single red ball, the Powerball, from a second set of 35 numbers. Players may select their own numbers using a Powerball playslip, or they may opt for computer-selected quick picks. Players must match all five numbers drawn plus the Powerball number to win the jackpot. There also are eight additional ways for players to win a cash prize.
Purchasing the $1 Power Play option allows a winner to increase lower-tier prizes by a factor of 2, 3, 4 or 5, depending on the Power Play number drawn. The jackpot and the Match 5 prize are not multiplied. The Match 5 prize with the Power Play option is set at $2 million. It is $1 million without Power Play.
Powerball is sold in 44 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In Pennsylvania, tickets are sold until 9:59 p.m. on drawings nights, Wednesday and Saturday.
About the Pennsylvania Lottery: The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery that designates all its proceeds to programs that benefit older residents. Since its inception in 1971, the Pennsylvania Lottery has contributed more than $24.7 billion to programs that include property tax and rent rebates; free transit and reduced-fare shared rides; the low-cost prescription drug programs PACE and PACENET; long-term living services; and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including full- and part-time senior centers throughout the state.
The Pennsylvania Lottery reminds players to check every ticket, every time. Players must be 18 or older. Please play responsibly. For help with a gambling problem, call 1-800-848-1880.
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