LOUISVILLE, Ohio — One lucky ticket sold in California just hit the $44 million Powerball jackpot in the latest drawing on Monday, August 19, 2024. California Lottery officials later revealed the winning ticket was sold at Ralphs on Golden Lantern in Dana Point, which is south of Laguna Beach.
There was also one big winner here in Ohio who hit a prize worth $100,000 after buying their winning ticket at Enjoy's Drive Thru in Louisville.
But that's not all... The Ohio Lottery says there were thousands of various prizes hit in Ohio as listed below:
- $100,000 prize: 1 winner
- $50,000 prize: 1 winner
- $200 prize: 8 winners
- $100 prize: 8 winners
- $14 prize: 353 winners
- $8 prize: 2,865 winners
- $7 prize: 501 winners
- $4 prize: 4,540 winners
The lucky numbers from the Monday night drawing were 1, 2, 15, 23, 28 and Powerball 10. The Power Play option was 2x.
The jackpot now resets to $20 million for the next Powerball drawing, which is set for Wednesday, Aug. 21, at 10:59 p.m. That prize has a cash option worth $9.9 million.
Powerball lottery officials say the odds of hitting the jackpot are one in 292,201,338, which is slightly better than the Mega Millions odds of one in 302,575,350. The odds of hitting a $1 million winning ticket in Powerball, meanwhile, are one in 11,688,053.52.
Northeast Ohio had a big Powerball winner last year as one lucky ticket sold at a GetGo in Macedonia hit the jackpot worth $252.6 million during the April 19 drawing.
Are you feeling lucky? Ohio has recently seen some big winners in previous lottery drawings. Those winners include...
2024 LOTTERY WINNERS
- Aug. 6 in Mega Millions: $1 million winner in Mentor
- July 9 in Mega Millions: $1 million winner in Springboro
- July 3 in Powerball: $139.3 million jackpot winner in Huber Heights
- June 22 in Powerball: $1 million winner in Akron
- April 20 in Powerball: $1 million winner in Cincinnati
- March 26 in Mega Millions: $1 million winner in Toledo
- March 9 in Powerball: $2 million winner in Columbus
- Feb. 6 in Mega Millions: $1 million ticket sold in Ashland
2023 LOTTERY WINNERS
- Dec. 30 in Powerball: $1 million ticket sold in Highland Heights
- Dec. 25 in Powerball: Two $100,000 prizes sold in Cuyahoga Falls and Wellington, respectively
Dec. 18 in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year scratch-off game: $500,000 prize sold in Cuyahoga Falls - Dec. 16 in Powerball: $150,000 prize sold in Mentor
- Nov. 14 in Mega Millions: $4 million winning ticket sold in Swanton
- Oct. 10 in Powerball: $1 million winning ticket sold in Medina
- Oct. 9 in Classic Lotto: $5.5 million winning ticket sold in Parma Heights
- Oct. 7 in Powerball: $1 million winning ticket sold in Curtice
- July 19 in Powerball: $1 million winning ticket sold in Xenia
- July 18 in Mega Millions: $1 million winning ticket sold in Brook Park
- June 14 in Powerball: $1 million winning ticket sold in Fairfield
- June 9 in Mega Millions: $1 million winning ticket sold in Moraine
- May 31 in Powerball: Ticket sold in New Albany hits $1 million prize
- April 27 in Make My Year scratch-off game: A winning ticket worth $2.5 million is sold at a GetGo store in Alliance
- April 26 drawing in Lucky For Life: A winning ticket sold at an East End Express in Hubbard hit the second-tier prize that pays $25,000 per year for life
- April 19 drawing in Powerball: A winning ticket sold at a GetGo in Summit County wins the jackpot worth $252.6 million
- April 18 drawing in Mega Millions: One ticket sold at a Circle K in Berea wins a $1 million prize
- March 13 drawing in Powerball: A winning ticket sold in southern Ohio hits $2 million
- Jan. 10 drawing in Mega Millions: Two $1 million winning tickets sold in Ohio
- Jan. 7 drawing in Powerball: Winning ticket worth $2 million sold in Vermilion
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