Powerball ticket worth $1 million is sold at a Publix store in Florida. Here’s where
A Powerball player just missed a $462 million jackpot prize — but still scored a life-changing win in Florida.
The player bought a ticket that matched all but one number picked in the March 24 drawing, making it worth $1 million, results show.
The winning numbers: white balls 6-23-35-36-47, with red Powerball 12.
So, where was the ticket sold? It came from the Publix supermarket in Lady Lake, a roughly 50-mile drive northwest from Orlando, the Florida Lottery wrote on its website and in a news release.
In Florida, Powerball tickets start at $2. The lucky player chose the Quick Pick option, meaning a lottery machine randomly chose at least some of the ticket numbers. The person’s ticket then matched all the white balls to win $1 million.
The ticket also was one number from scoring the estimated $462 million jackpot prize. No one hit the jackpot, making the Florida prize and another in New Jersey the largest won in the country the night of the drawing, according to the Powerball website.
As of early March 25, the Florida Lottery on its website didn’t say whether the $1 million prize had been claimed. In the Sunshine State, Powerball winners have about six months to cash in, game rules show.
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.
