Mesa store sells Powerball ticket worth $150,000 in latest lottery drawing
Jan 19, 2023, 1:42 PM
(Photo illustration by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
(Photo illustration by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
PHOENIX – A ticket buyer in the Valley hit the lottery for $150,000 in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, Arizona Lottery officials said.
The ticket was purchased at a Mesa Walmart near Lindsay and Baseline roads, a lottery spokesperson said Thursday.
The ticket matched four of the five white balls (6, 15, 22, 42 and 47) plus the Powerball of 26. The Power Play 3X multiplier tripled the $50,000 prize.
The Powerball jackpot went unclaimed and reached $473 million with a cash value of $255.7 million for the next drawing on Saturday.
Nobody has hit the big prize since Nov. 19, 2022, in Kansas, according to Powerball.
The biggest Powerball jackpot in history was a ticket worth $2.04 billion sold in California on Nov. 8, 2022.
Maine scored its first Mega Millions jackpot last week when a ticket purchased in the state matched Friday’s winning numbers for the lottery’s estimated $1.35 billion grand prize.
The jackpot was the second largest in Mega Millions history and the fourth time the game has had a billion-dollar win.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot in October 2018 was $1.53 billion claimed by a single ticket holder in South Carolina.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
