While the jackpot continued to climb well past $1 billion, a winning Powerball ticket worth $500,000 from Wednesday night’s drawing was sold in the State College area, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Giant Food Stores, 2121 S. Atherton St. in College Township, sold the Powerball ticket with Double Play,, the PA Lottery wrote in a news release on Thursday. The ticket matched the five Double Play balls drawn, 7-32-39-50-61, but not the Double Play Powerball number 4, to win a half-million dollars (less applicable withholding).
Double Play is an add-on option for $1 that gives players another chance to win with their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing. The Double Play drawing is held after each Powerball drawing.
The store will earn a $500 bonus for selling the ticket.
The winner has one year from the drawing date to claim the prize and have their ticket validated. Winning tickets purchased at a retailer should immediately be signed on the back, according to the release.
It was one of 11 tickets sold in Pennsylvania for Wednesday night’s drawing that won a combined $2.4 million. A ticket worth $1 million was sold in Allegheny County, and nine tickets woth $100,000 were sold throughout the commonwealth.
More than 314,100 other PA Lottery Powerball tickets won prizes of various amounts in in the Power Ball and Double Play drawings.
After no one won the grand prize on Wednesday, the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing now has an estimated annuity value of $1.7 billion, or an approximately $770.3 million lump sum payment.
The current run marks the sixth time the Powerball jackpot has climbed past $1 billion. The record total is $2.04 billion in 2024.
According to the PA lottery, this run has generated more than $105 million in sales in the commonwealth, resulting in a profit of more than $42 million that is used to benefit older Pennsylvanians.
