COLUMBUS, Ohio — Editor's note: Video in the player above was originally published in a previous Powerball article on Oct. 16, 2022.
Although nobody hit the $508 million jackpot in the latest Powerball drawing that was held Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, the Ohio Lottery says there are still thousands of people taking home smaller amounts of prize money.
Those smaller prizes sold in Ohio are listed as follows:
- $150,000 prize: 1 winner
- $50,000 prize: 1 winner
- $300 prize: 19 winners
- $100 prize: 57 winners
- $21 prize: 791 winners
- $12 prize: 7,037 winners
- $7 prize: 1,891 winners
- $4 prize: 19,191 winners
The drawing itself was delayed due to a technical issue. The lucky numbers in the drawing from Wednesday night are 6, 8, 15, 27, 42 with Powerball 10. The Power Play option is 3x.
The jackpot now grows to $550 million with a cash option worth $277.5 million for the next Powerball drawing on Saturday, Oct. 22.
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.
Ohio has recently seen some big winners in previous lottery drawings. Those winners include...
- 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. 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.
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Editor's note: Video in the player above was originally published in an unrelated story on Oct. 11, 2022.