LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Finally, there's a winner for the $1.08 billion Powerball drawing. The jackpot has a cash value of $558.1 million.
The winning ticket was sold in Los Angeles at Las Palmitas Mini Market, according to the California Lottery on Twitter. The market gets $1 million just for selling the ticket.
California has a new Powerball BILLIONAIRE! One lucky ticket sold at Las Palmitas Mini Market in Los Angeles was the only ticket across the country to match all 6 numbers in the July 19 #Powerball draw, winning the $1 Billion Powerball jackpot 🎉 🙌 👏 🤩. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/v3Ae41uyNC
— California Lottery (@calottery) July 20, 2023
The winning numbers in the Wednesday, July 19 drawing were white balls 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and red Powerball 24. The Power Play® multiplier was 2X.
The jackpot is the third largest for Powerball jackpot and sixth largest U.S lottery jackpot ever won.
Even though the jackpot was won by a single ticket, be sure to check your ticket. There were 36 winners of the $1 million second prize -- including tickets sold in both Indiana and Kentucky.
The Hoosier Lottery said in a release on Thursday that the $1 million winner was sold in Carmel at the Payless Liquors on River Road.
There were other big winners in Indiana including three $50,000 tickets. One of those was sold at in New Albany at the Valero at 327 West 5th Street. The other two were sold at the Grab N Go Four at 9760 Highway 211 SE in Elizabeth and at the Mann Road BP in Indianapolis.
Kentucky Lottery said in a release Thursday that the $1 million ticket was sold in Pendleton at the Pilot Travel Center on Pendleton Road. That's at the truck stop at exit 28 just north of Louisville.
Two tickets worth $50,000 were also sold in Kentucky. The first was sold in Corbin at the Minit Market on Cumberland Falls Way. The other was sold in Teaberry at D's Grocery on Kentucky Route 979.
Seven $1 million winners were sold in California, four in Florida, three in Massachusetts, two in Maryland, one in Missouri, one in New Hampshire, two in New Jersey, five in New York, one in Ohio, four in Texas, one in Wisconsin and one in West Virginia.
The Powerball jackpot eluded players for three months, before it was finally hit on Wednesday night in the 39th drawing of the jackpot run. Saturday's Powerball jackpot goes back to $20 million.
Lottery players won't have to wait long for a shot at another big jackpot. The Mega Millions drawing Friday night is worth an estimated $720 million.
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