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Check your tickets! A winning Powerball ticket was sold in Ohio. One person won $50,000 with four of five winning numbers and the Powerball in Saturday night’s drawing. The winning numbers were 8, 16, 24, 33, and 54. The Powerball was 18. No one won the $234 million jackpot.

The Connecticut Lottery player was one of five Powerball players across the nation to win a $100,000 prize following the drawing, according to Powerball. The player added Power Play, which doubled the $50,000 prize. The odds of winning were one in over 913,000, according to the Powerball odds page.

A pair of winning Powerball tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Massachusetts for Wednesday night's drawing.

According to the Wisconsin Lottery, a winning $2,000,000 Powerball ticket was sold at a Festival Foods for the July 5, 2025 drawing.