CLEVELAND — We have a big lottery winner as one lucky player just hit the $478 million Powerball jackpot in the latest drawing on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.
Powerball officials say the lucky lottery ticket was sold in the state of Georgia, but the exact location was not immediately disclosed.
"The lucky ticket holder in Georgia will have the choice between an annuitized prize of $478.2 million or a lump sum payment of $230.6 million," according to Powerball officials. "Both prize options are before taxes. If the winner selects the annuity option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5-percent each year."
This is the eighth time the Powerball jackpot has been won this year.
Although nobody hit the top prize here in Ohio, there were still thousands of other prizes hit throughout the Buckeye State -- which you can see listed below...
- $200 prize: 17 winners
- $100 prize: 29 winners
- $14 prize: 456 winners
- $8 prize: 4,864 winners
- $7 prize: 1,043 winners
- $4 prize: 10,768 winners
But that's not all... Powerball lottery officials say there were also two big winning tickets worth $1 million sold in Pennsylvania and Texas.
The lucky numbers from the Wednesday night drawing were 2, 15, 27, 29, 39 and Powerball 20. The Power Play option was 2x.
The jackpot now resets to its starting point of $20 million for the next Powerball drawing, which is set for Saturday, Oct. 26, at 10:59 p.m. That prize has a cash option worth $9.6 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
