SIX FLORIDA PLAYERS BECOME POWERBALL® MILLIONAIRES OVER THE WEEKEND

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TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Lottery is excited to announce that Florida had six winning tickets worth $1 million to $2 million from the Saturday, January 23 POWERBALL® drawing! Four lucky players each won $1 million and two lucky players each won $2 million. The winning tickets matched all five of the white ball numbers but did not match the Powerball number.

In addition to the $23.2 million POWERBALL jackpot hit in New Jersey, Saturday’s drawing produced a total of 43 second-tier winners – the largest number of millionaires created in a single U.S. Lottery drawing in the last five years! The winning tickets were spread across 18 jurisdictions including: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Puerto Rico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Florida’s winning $1 million POWERBALL tickets were sold at:

  • Speedway, located at 3500 South Babcock Street in Melbourne
  • 7-Eleven, located at 902 Margaret Street in Jacksonville
  • Tom Thumb, located at 3008-A North Jefferson Street in Marianna
  • Hemky LLC, located at 4415 South Highway 27 in Clermont.

 

Florida’s winning $2 million POWERBALL with Power Play® tickets were sold at:

  • 7-Eleven, located at 20361 Old Cutler Road in Cutler Bay
  • Walmart Market Fuel Station, located at 4884 Stauffenberg Lane in North Port

 

Florida POWERBALL winners have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim their prize.

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 100.8 million winning tickets totaling more than $2.9 billion in prizes, including 14 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.

The next POWERBALL drawing will be held Wednesday, January 27, at 10:59 p.m., EST, with an estimated $20 million jackpot. POWERBALL drawings are broadcast live, in high-definition, from the Florida Lottery’s state of the art draw studio in Tallahassee. Drawings are also available for viewing on the Florida Lottery website and our official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/floridalottery. Winning numbers are available on the Lottery’s website, free mobile app, at retailers statewide, and by phone at (850) 921-PLAY.

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