CLEVELAND — Check your lottery tickets!
We have a big winner in Northeast Ohio after one very lucky ticket sold at a GetGo in Macedonia hit the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $252.6 million during Wednesday night's drawing on April 19. The prize has a cash option worth $134.669 million.
The Ohio Lottery says the winning ticket in Summit County was an auto-pick that matched all of the numbers, which were: 4, 11, 21, 38, 64 and Powerball 11. The Power Play option was 3x.
You can watch Wednesday night's Powerball drawing in the video below:
But that's not all... The Ohio Lottery says there were thousands of other tickets that won various prizes throughout the state, which are listed below:
- $252.6 million jackpot: 1 winner
- $300 prize: 16 winners
- $100 prize: 22 winners
- $21 prize: 370 winners
- $12 prize: 4,189 winners
- $7 prize: 764 winners
- $4 prize: 8,761 winners
The jackpot now returns to its starting point of $20 million for the next Powerball drawing, which is set for Saturday, April 22 at 10:59 p.m. That prize has a cash option worth $10.7 million.
This big win comes just one day after one lucky Mega Millions ticket sold at a Circle K in Berea hit a $1 million prize.
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.
Last November, a single ticket sold in California hit a record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot. You can watch that historic drawing in the video below:
Are you feeling lucky? Ohio has recently seen some big winners in previous lottery drawings. Those winners include...
- April 18 drawing in Mega Millions: A winning ticket worth $1 million was sold at a Circle K in Berea
- 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.