CLEVELAND — Although nobody won the $71 million Powerball jackpot in the lottery drawing for Wednesday, May 3, 2023, there were still plenty of people who won smaller prize amounts throughout Ohio.
Here's a list from the Ohio Lottery of all the prizes hit in our state:
- $300 prize: 8 winners
- $100 prize: 14 winners
- $21 prize: 236 winners
- $12 prize: 2,794 winners
- $7 prize: 471 winners
- $4 prize: 5,463 winners
Editor's note: Video in the player at the top of this story was originally published in a previous lottery article on April 26, 2023.
The lucky numbers from the Wednesday night drawing were 21, 26, 30, 45, 47 with Powerball 23. The Power Play option was 3x.
The jackpot now grows to an estimated $87 million for the next Powerball drawing, which is set for Saturday, May 6 at 10:59 p.m. That prize has a cash option worth $46.8 million.
Powerball lottery officials say the odds of hitting the jackpot are one in 292,201,338.00, 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 month 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...
- 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
- Dec. 30 drawing in Mega Millions: $1 million winning ticket sold at Giant Eagle in North Olmsted
- Dec. 21 drawing in Classic Lotto: Winning ticket sold for $100,000 in Twinsburg
- Dec. 16 drawing in Lucky For Life: Winning tickets hits $7.3 million in Akron
- Dec. 10 drawing in Powerball: Winning ticket hits $1 million -- see where the lucky ticket was sold
- Nov. 25 drawing in Rolling Cash 5: Jackpot worth $711,000 hit in Northeast Ohio -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Nov. 8 drawing in Powerball: One lucky ticket hit a $1 million prize -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Nov. 5 drawing in Classic Lotto: One lucky ticket hit the $39.3 million jackpot -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Nov. 2 drawing in Mega Millions: A $1 million winning ticket was sold in Northeast Ohio -- see where the lucky ticket was purchased
- Nov. 1 drawing in Powerball: Two $1 million winning tickets in Ohio -- see where the winning tickets were sold
- Oct. 15 drawing in Powerball: $1 million winning ticket sold in Lyndhurst -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Sept. 10 drawing in Powerball: $2 million winning ticket sold in Columbus -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Sept. 10 drawing in Lucky For Life game: $500,000 winning ticket sold in Rootstown -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Sept. 8 drawing in Lucky For Life game: $500,000 winning ticket sold in Elyria -- see where the winning ticket was purchased
- Aug. 23 drawing in Mega Millions: $1 million winning ticket sold in Findlay – see where the winning ticket was purchased
- July 26 drawing in Mega Millions: $3 million winning ticket sold in Saint Clairsville; $1 million winning ticket sold in Berea – see where the winning tickets were purchased