ALLAHASSEE – The Florida Lottery announces that Raymond Wynne, 63, of Venice, claimed a $2 million prize from the POWERBALL® drawing held on December 12, 2020 using a secured drop box located at the Tampa District Office. The winning ticket matched all five of the white ball numbers but did not match the Powerball number.
Wynne purchased his winning ticket from Publix, located at 535 Tamiami Trail South in Venice. The retailer will receive a $5,000 bonus commission for selling the winning POWERBALL ticket.
The next POWERBALL drawing will be held tomorrow at 10:59 p.m. ET with an estimated $78 million jackpot. National POWERBALL drawings are broadcast live, in high-definition, from the Florida Lottery’s state of the art draw studio in Tallahassee. Florida Lottery game drawings are broadcast on 17 carrier stations throughout the state. Drawings are also available for viewing on the Florida Lottery website. Winning numbers are available on the Lottery website, at retailers statewide and by phone at (850) 921-PLAY.
Florida Lottery offices are currently open to the public by appointment only for players with prizes valued at $600 or more. Payers can request a claim appointment at Headquarters and district offices through the Lottery’s website, at www.flalottery.com/howToClaim. Players can still utilize the secured drop box located at each district office or mail tickets to Florida Lottery Headquarters or a district office.
ABOUT POWERBALL IN FLORIDA
Since joining POWERBALL in 2009, the game has generated more than $2.2 billion in contributions to education statewide. Florida is among the top-selling POWERBALL states in the country, with more than 99.3 million winning tickets totaling more than $2.9 billion in prizes, including 13 jackpot winners. Florida was also one of the three states nationally to have a winner share in the world record-setting $1.586 billion POWERBALL jackpot in January 2016.
