Someone In Florida Is $2 Million Richer After Last Night’s Powerball Drawing
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While last night’s Powerball drawing didn’t produce a jackpot winner, someone in Florida is $2 million richer.
I don’t know about you, but last night I was on the edge of my seat as they were drawing the Powerball numbers. I had my tickets in hand that I bought at my local Publix in Fort Myers and was waiting in anticipation for my numbers to be drawn. And, no, I wasn’t a winner. I’m not sure I’d be sitting here writing this if I was. I’d probably pay someone to do it for me. Because no one won last night, the Powerball jackpot is now the 2nd largest in history: $1.73 billion.
Someone In Florida Is $2 Million Richer After Last Night’s Powerball Drawing
Could you imagine waking up this morning, checking your numbers (if you didn’t last night) and finding out you’re $2 million richer? WFLA reports that the $2 million ticket was sold at a Publix in Hollywood. The winning numbers of Monday night’s drawing were 16, 34, 46, 55, 67 and red Powerball 14. This ticket matched 5 numbers, but not the Powerball.
No one won the jackpot last night, but there were four tickets sold in California, Indiana, Oregon and Virginia worth $1 million.
The next drawing is Wednesday at 10:59pm. But don’t get too excited, the odds of winning the $1.73 million jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Florida Lottery Scratch Offs Where You Have No Chance Of Winning Big
Florida Lottery tickets can be a bit of an impulse buy. Maybe you just finished at the Publix checkout and notice that the person behind the lottery counter isn’t with another customer. Well, maybe you slide on over and pick up some scratch offs. Or maybe that machine right by the exit catches your eye and you think “maybe I’ll put in 10 bucks and grab a ticket.” Some of these tickets show the possibility of a big jackpot but in reality, it’s just not so. These are the Florida Lottery scratch offs you should probably avoid.
Powerball is up over a billion again, if you want my insight on that, you’ll find that here. But right now, we’re talking scratch offs.
Before you buy any scratch off, you really should know the chance of hitting it big. What if I told you that there’s a $50 ticket with a 25 million dollar grand prize, but you can’t win it? Or a $2 ticket where you could win $100,000 – but you won’t.
When the Florida Lottery issues new scratch offs, there’s a set number of big winners. And as the game gets older, sometimes all the big winners are gone. But how do you know? They actually provide a list, and update the date regularly.
A lot of these tickets still have secondary and other prizes available. Big prizes, too. But I want the dream. I need to know I can win that grand prize before I start scratching. If you’re the same, here’s the tickets where all the big winners are gone. These are the tickets to avoid.
Marija is a morning show host on WXKB/B1039 and midday host on WRXK/96KRock. She loves to write about food, travel, and things to do around the state of Florida.