CLEVELAND — Although nobody hit the $134 million jackpot in the latest Powerball drawing from Wednesday, Dec. 14, the Ohio Lottery says there were thousands of other prizes hit throughout the state. Those prizes are listed below...
$1,000 prize: 8 winners
$100 prize: 14 winners
$70 prize: 203 winners
$40 prize: 3,089 winners
$7 prize: 432 winners
$4 prize: 5,882 winners
The lucky numbers from the Wednesday night drawing are 36, 51, 59, 66, 68 with Powerball 25. The Power Play option was 10x.
The jackpot now climbs to an estimated $149 million for the next Powerball lottery drawing on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 10:59 p.m. That prize carries a cash option of $80.4 million.
Last month, a single ticket sold in California hit a record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot. Here in Northeast Ohio, one lucky ticket sold at a GetGo in Lakewood hit $1 million.
Watch the $2.04 billion Powerball drawing from last month in the player below:
Are you feeling lucky? Ohio has recently seen some big winners in previous lottery drawings. Those winners include...
- 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.
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.
Editor's note: Video at the top of this story was originally published in a previous Powerball article on Dec. 12, 2022.